Q: Photo library - bit of a mess.
Hi
I have an iPhone 6 plus with 9.3.2 (136F69), a iMac with 10.11.5 and an Ipad Pro with 9.3.2 (136F69). I have somehow managed to get 13,000+ photos on my iPhone taking up 26gb+ of the phone (it's 64gb capacity). I want to have all my photos on my iMac (& backed up via Time Machine) and Cloud and just the ability to use the cloud to view photos on the phone as and when required. I adjusted the setting on the iPhone for photos via Cloud settings to be:
- iCloud Photo Library is selected
- Optimise iPhone Storage is selected
- Upload to my Photo stream is selected
- Upload burst photos is not selected
- icloud Photo sharing is selected
- (I have the same setting on the iPad)
I thought this might resolve the issue but the photos are still on the phone
How do I ensure I have all the photos on my iMac and the Cloud but easily delete the ones stored on the the iPhone? I have managed to copy all from the phone to my iMac hard-drive.
If I delete from the iPhone (is there an easy way to delete without selecting the 13,000 individually?) and then import into Photos on the iMac from the copy i made to the iMac hard-drive (assuming deleting from iPhone will also delete from the Cloud) would that work?
I have looked for an answer but haven't seen anything that suggests how this could be done. Any help would be most appreciated as I have gotten myself in a bit of a mess
Thanks Shakey
iMac 21.5, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Posted on Jul 19, 2016 11:42 AM