Cannot delete image that are on iphone with image capture

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Andy_1970s Author

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Cannot delete image that are on iphone with image capture

Ok so I am a little confused when I connect my iphone 6S to my macbook using image capture.

Connecting the two, in image capture i see there are 5.618 image when I select my iphone on the left plane in image capture but when I go to photos on my phone the first tile I see is called ALL PHOTOS and it has 11.152.

I wanted to select about 5.000 of the photos in image capture and delete them, but the delete option is greyed out. So I though, then I will delete them directly on the phone, but there there are over 11.000.

Why woud image capture not show the same amount of photos (11.152)?

How can I re-acivate the delete option in image capture please?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Aug 21, 2017 9:07 AM

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Answer 1

Andy_1970s Author

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Aug 21, 2017 11:56 AM in response to Raicya

Hi Raicya, don´t fully understand what you mean about making a temp folder and changing the image capture settings.

In image capture I cannot change settings:

If I make a temp folder I still cannot delete:

Or am I misunderstanding?

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Raicya

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Aug 21, 2017 12:20 PM in response to Andy_1970s

Hi Andy,

I don't use iCloud. The pictures from the iDevcies imported to the iMac with Image Capture. For every iDevice I have made a folder in Finder.

I can remove the pictures via Finder or directly in Image Capture app.

I saw to late on your screenshot that your picture are in iCloud 😉

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Rysz

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Aug 21, 2017 10:11 AM in response to Andy_1970s

The cloud icon next to your iPhone name indicates you turned iCloud Photo Library ON. These images have already been synced to iCloud and whatever other devices or computers have iCPL enabled. I.e., the master originals are in iCloud, not on the local device for Image Capture to manipulate directly. To delete them you have to do it from the Photos app(s).

Note, that with iCPL enabled, adding, deleting, or editing images on any iCPL device, will sync that action to all other iCPL devices (including deletions!). Read this carefully and evaluate if in your r usage case you want iCPL disabled.

iCloud Photo Library - Apple Support

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Andy_1970s Author

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Aug 21, 2017 11:53 AM in response to Rysz

Hi Rysz, thanks for the reply. So that makes sense as to why I see different amount. The 11.152 is in the cloud and the 5618 is what is actually on my phone?

I actually prefer how it used to be: I have a folder on my phone with all local photos and there is a folder with icloud photos. If I disable icloud photo library will I create that situation? Will I not lose images? And will images I make still be automatically uploaded to icloud?

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