When I use the iOS Camera, it duplicates that photo in the Photos app. How do I stop that? (It unnecessarily uses memory.)
In Settings, all "Photos & Camera" settings are off as is "iCloud:Photos".
iPad Air, iOS 9.3
humanengr wrote:
When I use the iOS Camera, it duplicates that photo in the Photos app. How do I stop that? (It unnecessarily uses memory.)
In Settings, all "Photos & Camera" settings are off as is "iCloud:Photos"
Your statement doesn't make sense to me or I am misunderstanding you. Of course the photos are stored in the camera roll when you take photos with the device. Where do you expect the photos to be stored?
IF you mean that you see the photos in thumbnail view while using the Camera app, they are not duplicated at all. You are just seeing them in the camera app but they are stored in the photos app.
One way this might happen is having your photos synced to your computer, yet remaining in the iPad's Camera Roll.
One copy of the photo on the iPad might be from Camera Roll. This copy, when shown in large or full screen, would display a wastebasket. (Or you could delete it directly from Albums > Camera Roll.) The second copy would not display a wastebasket, as you would have to delete it from your computer first.
(Coming up to speed, but still not all there 😉 )
Might have solved it, but still exploring -- will post more this evening.
I'm anxious to know exactly what you mean anyway. I am obviously missing something.
another q first, if I may: afaics 1) Photos and Camera both present the same view of 'Photos' and 'Albums', and 2) from what I've read, the Photos app allows connection to iCloud. Is that the only added feature of the Photos app? In any case, why have two apps?
Photos is the app that stores and manages photos, including those not taken by the camera. The camera takes photos. Its ability to access Photos is just a convenience, so you can view them without needing to change apps. Actually, the camera just runs Photos as a sort of sub-process, the same as Mail can open web links in Safari. It's a slick piece of integration.
thx -- but no, (I haven't been syncing photos. I back up to Dropbox because Apple's photo file naming convention makes it too easy to overwrite photos from iOS device 1 with those from iOS device 2.)
Strange then that Apple doesn't indicate in the Camera app that Photos is where photos are stored. At a minimum, that's confusing.
I think it's pretty obvious in the user guide, https://help.apple.com/ipad/9/ so the apps don't have to be self-documenting.
Well, I'm not quite sure how this got fixed. Earlier today I deleted all photos from Camera (after uploading to Dropbox), hoping to free that memory. But available memory didn't change. I then saw in Photos that the photos were still there, so I had to delete them there to free up memory. At that point, iirc, I set to 'off' the only settings in 'Photos and Camera' that had been 'on' -- 'Summarize Photos' and 'Keep Normal Photo'. Now things work ok (I.e., deleting in Camera also deletes in Photos) but turning those two settings back on doesn't revert the behavior. So, puzzled.
It's not obvious there was a user guide anywhere.
humanengr wrote:
It's not obvious there was a user guide anywhere.
I could not disagree more.
You can find the user guide in iBooks. You can find it from typing "iPad Guide" at Apple Support Site's search field. Additionally, from Apple's Support site:
Clicking "iPad" above yields:
Then scroll down to see:
And how was one supposed to guess what iBooks was? Why would one think to type "iPad Guide" into a search or go to Apple's Support site? Nowhere near 'obvious'.
Gee. Back when I was a noob, I typed ipad manual into Google, and found it right away. It was pdf then. Now it's both in iBooks and on-line. Seemed obvious to me.
Why would one think to search for an 'iPad manual' when apps that need a manual have that built in?
btw, not a noob.
how to stop iOS Photos from storing photos?
