Since I installed Mac OS X Sierra, all my photos from the photos App in my iMac have been uploaded to iCloud taking all my space.
I would like to keep my iphone photos in iCloud but not the ones uploaded from the iMac, is this possible?
I mean, I already disabled the iMac upload to iCloud but to free up space now I need to delete only the photos uploaded by my iMac.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Turn iCloud photo library off on the Mac, you'll need to delete all the photos you don't want from your iCloud/phone manually but after that only photos from your phone will sync with iCloud.
Thanks Winston, but since I installed the Mac OS X Sierra it seems that the upload to iCloud was a default setting, I wasnt aware that 180GB of photos from my iMac have been uploaded, delete all this manually will be hard. Isn't ther another way of doing this?
iCloud Photo library would need to be turned on manually, if it is on you have done it accidentally. What settings do you see at Photos > Preferences > iCloud.
thanks again. Well, this is strange, I can't remember setting this way but anyway now I think I disabled it. The problem is to delete only the iMac photos from the iCloud since I don't want to upgrade my storage plan.
I assume you are saying it was set to on but you've now turned it off. (It can be turned on/off in other places too)
Anyway, you should now have stopped any more photos syncing from your Mac to iCloud.
You say your library is 140 GB, I'm guessing from what you say your iCloud storage is less.
Before going any further, can we just confirm what your iPhone settings are (settings > photos & camera)
In the iphone I enabled the iCloud Photo Library, also, optimize in the iPhone is turned on.
And was my assumption in line one above correct.
What I meant was, was it the case that you found iCloud photo library enabled when you checked on your mac and have since turned it off.
I'm also a bit confused by the image above, it says it is uploading 19,000 photos, do you have 19,000 photos on your phone.
Well, I guess I have but the problem is that the photos from my Mac made my storage full, thats why I have so many photos in the upload queue.
Yeah but, here's what I don't understand... (It's important we understand what's going on before starting deleting anything)
I assume all the photos were originally on your Mac only and were synced first to the cloud when iCloud photo library got enabled, they would then have been synced to your phone.
Now what doesn't make sense is that your phone is now trying to sync them back to the cloud, when one would assume they were already there. Secondly, you have optimisation turned on and optimised photos can't be synced to the cloud. If they weren't optimised it would be possible to sync them to the cloud, but they would take up a lot of room on your phone, perhaps more than all but the largest capacity phone can hold.
So...
I used to sync all my photos from the phone to icloud, I think is a good features since I can save some space in the phone but I would never put my iMac photos there because I know I don't have the space, and I already have the photos in my Google Drive.
My iPhone has 64GB.
I think all these photos are the ones coming from the iMac that didn't synced correctly, maybe?
Would be nice to delete photos coming from one specific device. I would filter the photos synced from my iMac and delete them, but I think this is impossible now.
How to delete only photos in iCloud from my Mac
