bursts in photos

Here's my approach.

If you want to keep some photos in a burst set:

• select "Bursts" in sidebar;
• double click the burst set that you want to work on;
• select "Make a Selection" in the upper right hand corner of the burst set;
• select the photo or photos in the burst set that you want to keep by checking the circle on the bottom right of each photo. You will also see a blue check mark on each photo selected in the burst set at the bottom of your screen.
• click "Done" in the upper right corner of your screen.
• select "Keep Only Selection" and your selected photos will saved separately, i.e. they will no longer be in a burst set in "Bursts."

If you don't want to keep any photos in a burst set then select the burst set to be deleted go to "Image" in the menu bar and select "Delete 1 Burst."

In the Burst smart album click on one of the photos. It will open with a button that says Make a Selection:

Clicking on that will give you the opportunity to select one of the burst photos:

You can also select multiple photos in the burst (click on the small circle on the lower right of each one). If you do that & then click "Done" the selected photos will be treated as individual photos, "unbursting" them, so to speak.

Unfortunately, it seems that Photos defaults to grouping bursts together as a 'stack' & there is no preference to stop this from happening. If you don't like that send Apple feedback about it.

Hi All,

I too have this issue.

It seems that if you have previously uploaded burst photos to a shared iCloud Album, after switching to Photos & uploading all your old files to iCloud Photo Library, there is some duplication. I used to save my Camera Roll to dropbox before switching to iCloud Photo Library, when my photos uploaded to dropbox, the file was renamed something like 2014-08-06 07.43.08.jpg but when I uploaded the same photo to a shared iCloud Photo Steam the file name was the default iPhone name (IMG_0220.JPG). After switching to photos, I imported my Dropbox backups into Photos and this has resulted in all my burst shots becoming multiple frames again. One for each filename. When I try and delete the bursts I don't want, they always reappear.

I think there is an issue with Photos syncing photo stream versions with your photo library versions depending on if you delete the Photos version or the iCloud Photo Steam one.

On a similar subject, please could you explain how to delete all but a few selected photos from Burst. I make my selection, press done and all of the originals remain. I can, however, delete the entire burst packet. Thank you

Hi planetm,

I found if I deleted the version that was the original filename and kept the version I uploaded to iCloud Photo Library that had been renamed, I could permanently delete the excess "bursts".

Cheers.

Sorry Malcom, where are you deleting the original from? I have not yet managed to upload all my photos to eh cloud, I have very poor internet connection.

This seems a very long winded way to delete photos. I have accidentally taken loads of bursts and now have them in my albums and want to just keep one of each batch.

Yea, this is pretty annoying. I love the burst feature, but after selecting on the iPhone which ones to keep, thereby "unbursting" the set, I shouldn't have to repeat this process on the Mac.

I have the same question and you can do the following steps to delete photos from burst:

1. select the photo you want to modify or delete in bursts folder

2. click "Make a Selection" at the top left corner of photo

3. bottom will shown those burst photos and select the one you want to keep by click the "circle" on bottom right corner (you can select more than one if you want)

4. click "Done" than you can choose the popup "Keep only selection" to delete those you didn't select.

Cheers

Ok

exactly why are you telling the users here that? If you want something done you need to tell Apple not us - https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html

LN

Solved it. In the Photos app, look at the sidebar (if not there, click View/Show Sidebar). Click on the group "Bursts". Right click on a set of photos and choose "Delete 1 Burst". A dialog box will appear and it says, "Delete From All Devices. Keep x favorites and delete y photos from one burst?". If you click the delete button then the "extras" will be deleted and the favorites saved.

All that does for me is delete the photos, i don't get an option to keep the favourites