Nurgle
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Q: How can I manage Photo Stream Photos when iCloud Photos is enabled?

I'm trying to manage the Photo Stream photos that show up on my Apple TV. I have iCloud photos enabled on my iPhone, so everything merrily shows up in iCloud as expected (and seems to function as I expect it to). However, not all of the photos I take are ones I want in super-huge glorious display in my living room!

 

Getcher minds out of the gutter. :-p Most of the photos I'm talking about involve taking pictures of injuries, or just a bunch of random stuff that is work-related (why would my family have any interest in pictures of the industrial equipment?).

 

If I delete the photos on my iPhone (or iPad, similar setup) then it deletes them everywhere. Deleting them on the Apple TV is tedious and mind-numbing, and really I do go through the photos on my phone often enough that I'd just like the ability to say "Yes, send this to Photo Stream" or "No, who wants to see that nasty puss-filled blister in 62" of HDTV glory?!?"

 

When it is just Photo Stream enabled, I obviously can just go to the Photo Stream album and delete them there, but once the iCloud photos has been enabled the Photo Stream album goes away. I know that Photo Stream still exists and populates, because it behaves the way I would expect it to on the Apple TV. I'd just like to be able to do something about it from my iPhone!

iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.4

Posted on Aug 23, 2016 5:08 PM

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Q: How can I manage Photo Stream Photos when iCloud Photos is enabled?

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  • by Peter Foto App User,

    Peter Foto App User Peter Foto App User Aug 31, 2016 2:21 PM in response to Nurgle
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    Aug 31, 2016 2:21 PM in response to Nurgle

    Hi Nurgle, I think I have a similar issue and found a way to solve it. I have Apple TV4 with the latest tvOS installed. Here how I do it. On my iPhone I create a shared album. This is done in that middle thing on the bottom of the photo app, in German called "für alle", it only comes up if you turn on iCloud-Sharing (just guessing how it may be called on an English iOS, in German it is iCloud-Fotofreigabe) in Settings/iCloud/Photos. On the Apple TV I first go to the screen saver settings and set it so that it will show pictures from my own shared albums. Then I go to the photo app on AppleTV, select the shared album I created before on the phone and set it as source for the screen saver. I set the screen saver to 2 minutes, so it comes on very quickly when I turn the gear on. So now, while on the road, I just add any picture I want on the large screen at home into that shared album and it just happens magically. There are a couple of downsides: There is no way to control the order of the pictures (I hope very much Apple is going to fix that soon). I can not have more the 5000 pictures in that shared album. If I add too many pictures to that shared album (50+) in one go, the whole process somehow stops working in the middle.