How do I delete the photostream album after turning photostream off?

You could press the arrow button on the album then press the red button "DELETE PHOTO STREAM"

Greetings! I just figured it out!

1. In Iphoto - Highlight the photo stream album you want to delete

2. Cick on Photos in the blue navaigation bar at top of screen

3. Click on Delete Photo Stream. A box will come up to ask if you want to import the photos to your Iphoto first.

I did this right on my iMac so not sure if this works same on iPad or iPhone!

Good luck!

Quick question- how are you accessing Iphoto- I have the Iphone 5 and there is no photo app, I can't find my photo stream, or albums.. all I have is the camera app and I don't have any buttons/icons that say photo stream, albums, or anything .. I am desperately trying to access my photo stream on my phone and can't find any answers anywhere how to do this...

You're awesome! This worked for me as well. I was stuck with a rogue photostream album with 400+ photos that I had already deleted from the cameral roll. There was no option to delete the album or the photos inside, the only options were to share or to add the photos to a new/existing album. dnaumov's solution worked like a charm. My other legit photostream album got deleted too but that's okay. Thank you so much!

dnaumov wrote:

And just like that, I figured it out 🙂

Unticking the "Sync Photos" options in iTunes on my PC and doing a sync made the ghost "Photo Stream" finally dissapear from my iPhone. No idea how or why, especially considering that "My Photos" folder on the PC where iTunes was set to sync to/from doesn't actually contain any photos, but the mystery Photo Stream did.

this might be a little late but if ya delete the stream in iCloud it will be gone from your phone..

Tried that & it still shows up.

You have to shut off Photo Stream from your phone.. in iCloud settings. This will then delete the album from your phone.

I did that. Everything is off. I'm down to the apps that came with the phone & the only added one is the emoji for my little icons and I have 68 pictures. iCloud backup is turned off, everything has been stripped to basically nothing and it's still showing I have basically no space. It's very frustrating. 😕

When I activated Photo Stream.. it created a folder in my picture are a on the phone.. I then proceeded to turn off photo stream and it asked me to confirm deletion of the photo stream folder.. I said yes.. and it was then removed from my phone photo section.

As for space.. do you have music on your phone? and if so did you put all you music on or did you select. When I first put music on my phone I forgot to uncheck all in the sync.. and it basically downloaded all my musich from my iTunes. I had to back in and select the music I wanted this freed up a lot of space that was instantly gone when I sync the phone the first time.

Just a stab and thought that might be part of your space issue.

Thanks dnaumov!

I have an iPad and an iPhone with a mysterious "Photo Stream" filled with photos I could not delete.

Using iTunes on Windows, I synced both my Apple products.

But the iPad sync showed the mysterious "Photo Stream" folder.

This was unchecked and then sync'd again.

The mysterious "Photo Stream" folder disappeared from both Apple products immediately.

Awesome.

I tried that before, but after reading your post my iPhone finally let me do it.

Thanks for your post!

Hello everyone..

i have a i phone 5s 16gb .

the photo stream was taking nearly 3gb of my space before.

so i figure something out.

if u wanna keep the photo in icloud but wanna delete from particular device then follow the steps.

it work for me.

1. open setting.

2. click on option icloud.

3. go for option photos

4.off the my photostream option there.

5.and bingo , the photo album vanished from photos.

6.if u want it back then switch it on.

thank u..

Works like a charm! A lot of thanks. 😎

Command delete seems to work.