It's not in iPhoto on my Mac, yet shows up in the iPhone, Photo Library and it will not delete. How can I delete it? This is one of the reasons I dislike iPhoto.
iOS 5 and OS X Lion (latest iOS's)
Still cannot delete. iCloud / Photo Stream is not activated.
The photo in the iPhone's Photo Library is unavailable to be deleted. Why would Apple give a user experience that doesn't allow you to delete a photo from your own iPhone? It doesn't make any sense.
Completely confused by this, and there seems to be zero support on offer from the company on this forum who would likely suggest "Searching" this forum for an answer. I've done that. Nothing is worded similarly that has a match to my issue.
Apple. Support please?
Apple does not participate on this forum. It is a user-to-user technical help forum with no Apple presence, other than hosting and administration.
Best you can hope for is that another user is familiar with the same issue. One thing that might be confusing people is that on the iPhone, there is a Photos app, a Gallery app, but there is no Photo Library app.
In the meantime you can try Resetting and/or Restoring the iPhone.
To Reset your device.
Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears (ignore the Slide to Power Off that shows up first).
To Restore the iPad:
Thanks for responding Rysz.
When I say Photo Library, I'm referring to the file hierachy inside the default 'Photos' app that ships with iPhone.
Once opened you are presented with the following list of Albums.
Inside the Photo Library, if I select the photo I want to delete, my action options are: Share, Copy, Add To. Not delete. There is no way to delete a photo from iPhone once it is inside the Photo Library.
If I tap to open the photo my only other options are in a UIActionSheet:
I'm pretty familiar with Apple devices and user experience, but this seems a major bug.
If anyone has an idea, that would be great.
Go into album that contains the picture you want to delete. Click the action button and select the photo and choose remove. a popup will say remove picture will remain in photo library. click remove. It is then in the camera roll and you can delete it from there. Seems like a lot of work and hopefully apple will fix it in future updates but for now this is the work around.
PS: Activating Photo Stream just seems to introduce more photos that I deleted and no longer wish to have on my iPhone. Again, it's not possible to delete any of them. Seems a serious UX oversight by Apple. Simply deleting an image should not be an issue.
To rest Photostream co to iCloud .com sign in and click on your Apple ID and choose advanced †hen choose reset photostream. then on the device turn off photostream then turn it back on and the photos are gone.
Zenit8 wrote:
It's not in iPhoto on my Mac, yet shows up in the iPhone, Photo Library and it will not delete. How can I delete it? This is one of the reasons I dislike iPhoto.
iOS 5 and OS X Lion (latest iOS's)
If it is not in iPhoto then you are in the wrong forum - iPhoto is not an iPhone appication - you need to post in the iPhone forum or in teh supprot forum for the software you are concerned about
And if it is in the iPhoto library then it is in iPhoto on your Mac since that is the only place that there is an iPhoto library or an iPhoto application
LN
I think he meant photos app on the iPhone. And who cares where it is posted. If you are an administrator then move the thread if not then well you know....
lvmedic3214 - thanks, I have tried this. It will not remove the photo out of the Photo Library to the Camera Roll, so I therefore cannot delete it, and also cannot delete anything from Photo Stream from the iPhone.
Again seems really backwards. How do you delete a photo? Or is it not allowed? Are all photos taken, stored by Apple, and never deleted? Quite a concerning privacy and data issue this.
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I am certainly not an administrator and have no ability to move anything
and as to who cares is it is posted in the right place or not - I would guess that the OP does since they are extremely unlikely to get a good answer when they post in the wrong forum and I assume tha tthey posted wanting to get a good answer
As to you - if you have no clue then "well you know..."
LN
I see what you mean. You can delete them out of albums you have created but not from the photo library. You can if you connect to the computer and do it though iTunes. The ones in Photostream will be deleted if you reset them on the web and then turn off photostream on the phone and then back on.
lvmedic3214 - ah, thanks for the iCloud.com tip. I'll try that.
LarryHN - I was unaware of where this was posted as it was automatically posted here from an Apple Support Ticket web page I mentioned.
It actually raises an interesting point. Where do these questions relate to? Well,... everywhere – due to iCloud, our photos are on multiple devices, computers and a cloud. My issues I think is more to do with Apple's own UX team. I'm pretty surprised their Testers did not think this an issue. For instance, right now I have to go to a computer, type in the iCloud URL, enter my account info, and "reset" my settings – or whatever. That is a VERY unlike Apple way to proceed. I'm sure something Mr. Jobs would not have been happy with.
Still doesn't fix the issue I originally posted about: I cannot delete a photo from my iPhone. That's just wrong.
Thanks for the help! 🙂
My point was that your comment was less than nice. What you said was valid but it is not what you say but how you say it. My appologies if I was wrong.
Okay. So, syncing with Photos to the iPhone with iTunes has fixed the *original* issue. The photo that I could not delete is now deleted. Thanks lvmedic3214!
However, upon logging into iCloud, I do not even have the Photos icon available to me, so cannot delete or reset the Photo Stream. I'm tired even thinking about this now, so have just turned Photo Stream OFF. Not sure I'll bother even using it at this point.
Last note: iCloud.com is pretty but not very intuiative for navigation. I guess I'm in a critical mood. Just suprised at some of these blips, that's all.
There isn't a photos icon. Click on your name and choose advanced a button will appear that says Reset Photostream. Click that. it will prompt you that all photos will be deleted on devices.
Photo on my iPhone Photo Library that I want to delete.
