Delete photos from iPhone after import - Photos

Yes - apparently the same issue with "smart albums" is carried over to Apple Music/iCloud Music Library which also has "issues" properly syncing Smart Playlists. (I guess Apple's "smart" stuff is not so smart after all! LOL)

I think the problem is iCloud. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-switch-off-icloud-photos-2014-9

Here's how I finally got rid of 5,000 photos on my iPad. I won't go into great detail because iTunes seems to change every week and iCloud remains a complete mystery to me.

1. Turn off everything to do with iCloud on your device.

2. Do the same on your Mac.

3. Open iTunes and select your device. Click on "Photos" and then go to the synch screen. Ask it to sync but only pick 1 photo - then click sync.

4. Boom, everything disappears from your device (I had to shut down and then reopen my iPad.

HEY APPLE - how about a big device button that says "DELETE LOTS OF STUFF AT ONCE"?

Simply use Image capture and select the pictures you want to delete, there should be a "forbidden" icon on the lower left part that will delete the selected files from the device. (El Capitan 10.11.6 and Image Capture 6.7)

This option does not exist in Photos on the Mac in macOS Sierra. It used to exist. Not sure what Apple is doing here but this is annoying. It's becoming more unusable. I think they are trying to force one to buy more iCloud storage but I want to download my photos offline.

You are right. This does work. Thank you. I realised that if one turns off iCloud Photo Library on an iPhone or iPad the option of deleting photos after import shows up.

Setting > Photos > iCloud Photo Library. I turned it off and it worked.

I already did that ANd it works, however, will there be a possibility that it can retrieve back? I deleted some of my custom stickers logo for my business that needs to be reprinted who that be possible?

Photos you delete using Photos go to the recently deleted for 30 days and then they are gone - you need to get them from the recently deleted album or restore a backup from there they were there or use file recovery software like File Salvage

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It appears Apple made a greedy move here, so they could make more money, by removing the "delete photos after import" option in the Photos app, making it so that users would have to pay a monthly fee for iCloud storage. You can't even delete any photos off your phone anymore from the photos app. :/

It appears Apple made a greedy move here, so they could make more money, by removing the "delete photos after import" option in the Photos app, making it so that users would have to pay a monthly fee for iCloud storage.

Hate to ruin a good conspiracy theory...how can iCloud come in to play when discussing a dialog related to importing photos directly from a memory card to a Mac with no cloud involvement? Your theory makes no sense unless Apple also made SD cards. But I digress...

I believe the reason for removing this dialog would have been to keep people from causing themselves harm. I have not seen any "where are my photos..." or "best memory card recovery software" questions in some time.

To automatically remove photos from the only source for your valuable photos makes no sense. No wise photographer does this. Memory cards and device memory should be formatted within the device/camera itself before re-use, not erased by an operating system.

You can't even delete any photos off your phone anymore from the photos app. :/

Now you're just making stuff up.

Sorry I should have been more specific (were not all Pros at this Level 6, just everyday peeps trying to figure out all of this perfectly created, seamless software ): "You can't even delete any photos off your phone anymore from the Mac OSX Photos app." That was the easiest way for me to mass delete photos from my phone, that I was aware of. Now everyday I get the stupid your 50GB of iCloud storage is full on my iphone, and 99% of it is photos. That is why I mention iCloud in this message board thread - I came across the thread from google since I'm now trying to resolve this new issue. I have no idea how to easily mass delete those photos out of iCloud so I can stop getting that message. I try and do it from icloud on the website, but I get this message that it will delete the photo across all of my devices. Screenshot: https://d.pr/i/ETMKQx . So... will that delete photos from my Mac device as well? I hope not, I want to dump all photos there in the Mac Photos app and never have them deleted.

The "delete photos after import" check box wasn't auto selected, and it was very clear what it would do, plus there was an extra dialog to make sure thats what you wanted to do. Plus we have iCloud where the photo can also be found. But I'm no photographer. Plus I want the Mac Photos app to be the source of all my photos, not my phone which I'm more likely to lose.

Maybe you can help me out. I want iCloud take all my photos across all my devices and auto move them to the Photos app on my Mac computer. Plus I don't want every single photo I have to live in the cloud, and I don't really care to have them across all my devices. Once iCloud storage gets full, or device storage get full, then it can just delete the oldest files. If it can tell the photo isn't on my mac yet, then it can message me if it needs to sync to the Mac before it deletes the photo from the cloud. I'd rather have that message bother me on my phone. Not a daily message thats trying to get more money out of me.

Maybe you can help me out. I want iCloud take all my photos across all my devices and auto move them to the Photos app on my Mac computer. Plus I don't want every single photo I have to live in the cloud, and I don't really care to have them across all my devices. Once iCloud storage gets full, or device storage get full, then it can just delete the oldest files. If it can tell the photo isn't on my mac yet, then it can message me if it needs to sync to the Mac before it deletes the photo from the cloud. I'd rather have that message bother me on my phone. Not a daily message thats trying to get more money out of me.

That is what you want but it is not an option - you can either use iCloud Photo Library and have everything always up to date on all computers and IOS devices - of you can not use it and not always have everything up to date - your choice

If you do not want everything always up to date you can use MyPhotoStream to move all new photos to your mac and IOS devices with no future updating or you can connect teh IOS devices via usB and manually sync the desired photos

For me $120 per year is a very reasonable price to have all of my photos everyplace and have them automatically and seamlessly updated - if you do not think so then there are other ways to operate including the above form Apple and other offerings from other vendors

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Plus I don't want every single photo I have to live in the cloud, and I don't really care to have them across all my devices. Once iCloud storage gets full, or device storage get full, then it can just delete the oldest files. If it can tell the photo isn't on my mac yet, then it can message me if it needs to sync to the Mac before it deletes the photo from the cloud. I'd rather have that message bother me on my phone. Not a daily message thats trying to get more money out of me.

Then you need a different solution than iCloud. It does none of that.

And then you need to tell Apple what you want - not us - Product Feedback - Apple

We have the same exact ability to change things that you do - none

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Click on your iPhone in the sidebar

In the window at the right select the photos you want to import and have deleted and select the checkbox showing in this screenshot:

Have you noticed that this setting is not "sticky" -- IOW, that the checkbox is cleared after every import? I'm not sure that is how it is supposed to work but that is what happens on my system.

Also, I can't be sure about this, but on a few imports where I selected some but not all of the photos on my iPhone, even with the box checked, some of my burst shots were not deleted from the phone.

BTW, "deleted" isn't really accurate -- like with deleting photos on the phone itself, the items are just moved to the recently deleted "album," where they will eventually be deleted after ~30 days.