jacesp
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Q: Two or more of the same image on iphone

OH goodness what have I done?  I synched my iPhone 6s with my Mac and synced all my photos. Next day I then enabled iCloud Photo Library. . Now I have two or more of all my photos on my phone and don't know which to delete!  Is there an easy way of finding out what is on my phone and what is coming down from the cloud?  Ideally I would like to remove all photos from my phone and just have all of them stored in the cloud.

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10.0.3

Posted on Oct 22, 2016 1:11 PM

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Q: Two or more of the same image on iphone

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Oct 22, 2016 3:00 PM in response to jacesp
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    Oct 22, 2016 3:00 PM in response to jacesp

    In the Photos preferences what is the iCLoud Photo Library status?  If it is in the process of uploading then the downloads and syncing do not complete - everything needs to finish for it to be correct

     

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  • by jacesp,

    jacesp jacesp Oct 22, 2016 3:38 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Oct 22, 2016 3:38 PM in response to LarryHN

    Hi Larry No it finished this afternoon. I now have over 5000 images on.my phone, a mixture of the ones I synched using a cable connecting the phone to the Mac (iTunes synch) and the ones that have come down from the cloud. Is there a way of deleting the synched ones and keeping the cloud ones?  How do I tell which is which?

  • by markwmsn,Helpful

    markwmsn markwmsn Oct 23, 2016 1:36 AM in response to jacesp
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    Oct 23, 2016 1:36 AM in response to jacesp

    The only way to delete pictures that were synched by cable via iTunes is to repeat the iTunes synch with those pictures not selected. (Select only an empty folder if you want to synch no pictures.)

  • by jacesp,

    jacesp jacesp Oct 23, 2016 1:37 AM in response to markwmsn
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    Oct 23, 2016 1:37 AM in response to markwmsn

    This sounds logical. I'll try it today.