HT204022: Delete photos from My Photo Stream
Learn about Delete photos from My Photo StreamQ: This iphone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. Can you help up delete some of our pic ... This iphone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. Can you help up delete some of our pictures that are backed up so that we can continue to back up the phone? more
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May 31, 2013 7:07 PM in response to Mikesphoneby randers4,Go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage, tap the name of your device under Backups, then under Backup Options turn Camera Roll to Off.
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May 31, 2013 10:01 PM in response to randers4by Gruley,IF you follow those instructions then your photos and videos from your camera roll WILL NOT BE SAVED INTO THE BACKUP FOR YOUR DEVICE. THIS DOES NOT REMOVE THEM FROM THE ICLOUD this only stops them from being backed up.
Your best bet is to delete the pictures from your phone once you have them backed up onto your computer and use itunes/iphoto (on a PC use iTunes with whatever photo app you have configured) to make albums and restore only the ones you gotta have all the time to show people all the time, back to your phone.
Your best friend here, in the future is PHOTOSTREAM. apple.com/ios to learn about it. support.apple.com and read the iphone user manual for steps on how to use it.
Your other option is to increase your icloud storage space, and for $20 a YEAR you can have 3x the storage space you were given.
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May 31, 2013 10:06 PM in response to Gruleyby stevejobsfan0123,Gruley wrote:
IF you follow those instructions then your photos and videos from your camera roll WILL NOT BE SAVED INTO THE BACKUP FOR YOUR DEVICE. THIS DOES NOT REMOVE THEM FROM THE ICLOUD this only stops them from being backed up.
What you say is true, but photos in iCloud do not count against iCloud storage. Turning off Camera Roll will reduce the size of the backup, which hopefully is less than the amount of space the OP has available.
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May 31, 2013 10:11 PM in response to stevejobsfan0123by Gruley,Not true. Photos in your PHTOTSTREAM do not count against icloud storage. They most certainly do count is they are part of the ios backup file. In the backup, the only things that don't count againt the storage are things that you downloaded or purchased from Itunes (apps, songs, movies, videos, books etc) because those are simply referenced in the backup file to be redownloaded during restore. Apple cannot reference your files if apple didn't sell them to you in the first place.
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May 31, 2013 10:16 PM in response to Gruleyby stevejobsfan0123,Gruley wrote:
Not true. Photos in your PHTOTSTREAM do not count against icloud storage. They most certainly do count is they are part of the ios backup file.
Not true. Photo Stream photos are not part of a backup.
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May 31, 2013 10:33 PM in response to stevejobsfan0123by Gruley,I onmly just now say your 10:06 reply... but...
"They" referred to pictures in general. And I did specifically say (though with a single letter typo I see... "IF THEY ARE PART OF THE BACKUP FILE"... Correct that you don't backup the photostream photos, but we were talking about her camera roll originally which most certainly will go into the backup file unless disabled. I mentioned photostream to specify and clarify what the "pictures in the icloud" could mean and how it would function.
Turning off her cameral roll backups could be disasterous for most people. Im guessing the OP, not understanding all of this would fit into that category. OP needs to manage her pictures by deleting those backed up to her computer, from her phone alltogether not disable her camera roll from being backed up until she/he learns how to manage them properly. Turning off the cameral roll backup should only be done for this poster if we are talking about an emergency situation when they are away from the computer and must complete an icloud backup RIGHT NOW. Otherwise OP is being set up for data loss, the kind that makes people cry.
So true, photostream pics are not backed up into the ios backup file, but they are the only photos in the cloud that you could have otherwise been referring to, as far as I can see.
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May 31, 2013 10:49 PM in response to Gruleyby stevejobsfan0123,I don't think we're understanding each other.
but we were talking about her camera roll originally which most certainly will go into the backup file unless disabled.
That's what we were originally talking about, too - turning off Camera Roll in iCloud settings to reduce the backup size.
Otherwise OP is being set up for data loss
Merely backing up without saving camera roll photos will not delete them. If there was some catastrophic event in which the OP needed to restore from a backup, yes, the photos would not be there. But then again, they wouldn't be there either if the OP is unable to back up in the first place.
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May 31, 2013 11:26 PM in response to stevejobsfan0123by Gruley,you are correct. We are not understanding each other. I am attempting to provide a model for good habits for the OP. You have provided only a short term brief intervention which leaves a gaping hole for data to get lost in.
At no point did I say that merely backing up the device without saving the camera roll pictures would delete them. Please stop inferring what you think I mean, you are confusing the issue. I said that doing so was SETTING UP the OP for data loss. This behavior encourages the OP to simply shut off their backup for their pictures. At no point did you instruct the OP to delete the old pictures from the device. The set up part is this... if they simply turn off the camera roll backup, and aren't implementing some form of management for the pictures on the device, then the pictures are only being actually saved, in a "permanent" manner when the OP backs up to itunes. That's all fine and good, but this also presumes that the OP will always do so on a regular basis, will never forget to do so even when there are a ton of new, very important pics to worry about.
My suggestion allows the OP to continue to use the automatic backup feature the way it was intended...automatically...for the information that has not yet been saved to the user's computer. The whole point here is that the OP can keep their pics AND still benefit from automatic backups without disabling the cameral roll from being backed up into the icloud.
Should this poster have walked into my fruit themed store, I would recommend that the OP do the following:
1. back up the pics to the computer (done)
2. REMOVE THE BACKED UP PICS FROM THE PHONE
3. Learn about and utilize PHOTOSTREAM (including its limitations like no videos, only 1000 pics and only for 30 days) to make backing up and saving the photos from the phone easy and simple
4. Explain how backup works and what it backs up
5. Reassure the OP that even if they haven't backed up to itunes lately or have not bothered to properly save their pictures using another device and PHOTOSTREAM, that their oversight won't be catastrophic in circumstances where failure to do either of these things and being met with tragedy, does not necessarily mean that the OP is SOL. The automatic backup is another line of defense against data loss and can save the OP's precious memories, TEMPORARILY, until they can be transferred to another device for "permanent" storage. Why disable a line of defense?
I see it all the time. Full icloud, camera roll turned off, device not backed up to itunes nor pics saved for weeks because they were too busy, didn't feel like it or were just plain lazy. Then, a wedding, birth, Halloween, Naughty time with the hubby, whatever it may be its an event with a LOT of pictures taken. Then, then next day or so, before the manual saves can happen, the device is damaged and needs to be replaced. There's no backup, nothing saved and the user loses ALL of the pics from the special event. IF they had properly managed their pics and only kept stuff on there that they really needed, deleted the rest after saving their pics elsewhere, and thus kept the backup size small enough to use, the backup would happen unattended overnight, and even though catastrophe still happens, all the pics from the big event are recovered on a new device using the iCloud backup.
Do you see the difference? I hope you do, and i hope so does the OP. I have a great deal of experience here, take advantage of it or not. Accept my help or be stubborn about it, Your choice. I am finished posting into this thread now. Take care and good luck with your data.