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williamfromthe villages

Q: I have double the amount of photos on my ipod touch, how do I clean it up?

I have double the amount of photos on my ipod touch how do I clean it up?

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Posted on Nov 14, 2012 10:29 AM

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Q: I have double the amount of photos on my ipod touch, how do I clean it up?

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  • by randers4,

    randers4 randers4 Nov 14, 2012 2:18 PM in response to williamfromthe villages
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    Nov 14, 2012 2:18 PM in response to williamfromthe villages

    When you take a photo with photo stream enabled, it is both saved in your camera roll and uploaded to your photo stream.  Since photo stream is turned on, when it is uploaded a copy is streamed back to your device to the photo stream album, resulting in two copies of the photo on your device.

     

    If you want the photos to remain in your photo stream, you can import the camera roll copies to your computer and delete them from your camera roll, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.  Then the only copy will be in your camera roll.  The other option is to delete them from your photo stream and only keep the copy in your camera roll on your device.  However, when you do this, the photos are deleted from the photo stream album of all devices and computer connected to your photo stream as well, which defeats the purpose of enabling photo stream.  If you still want to do this, open the photo stream album on your device, tap Edit, tap all the photos you want to delete, tap Delete, then tap Delete Selected Photos.

  • by Jadeskyy,

    Jadeskyy Jadeskyy Apr 17, 2014 4:21 PM in response to randers4
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    Apr 17, 2014 4:21 PM in response to randers4

    Thanks. I will give it a try, after I save them all to my laptop lol