I just deleted a few images from Photo Stream AND Camera Roll on my iPhone 6s.
As expected, images were removed from my Photo Stream on my iPad and on my Mac. However, the deleted images are still in the Photos app ”Photos Library” folder on my Mac. I’m NOT using iCloud Library, so how can that be? Will I forever have to delete unwanted images twice? Once on my phone and then again on my Mac?
MacBook Air
I open Photos on my Mac, and there they are: The images I deleted from my iPhone's Camera Roll. The are in the Mac's Photo Library. I DO NOT have iCloud Library ticked on any device?
You may be deleting the photos from My Photo stream too late, when your Mac already imported them to its Photo Library.
if you do not want this, shut your Mac down while you are not at home, until you deleted the photos from My Photo Stream on your iPhone, so the Mac cannot download the photos before you delete them from your iPhone.
Alternately, put your iPhone in Flight Mode while you take photos, until you have deleted the photos you do not want in My Photo Stream, so the iPhone cannot upload the photos.
Of course if you use MyPhotStream because that is how it works - it is not a syncing service but a streaming service to stream photos to other devices
If you want your libraries synced then you use iCLoud Photo Library which is a syncing service and then all changes (additions, deletions or edits) made on any connected system are made on all
LN
See my reply to your duplicate question here: Re: I’m so confused. Photo Stream | Photos App
Actually, I DO NOT want some images synced OR streamed.
For example, I'm renovating a home. When out and about, on my iPhone, I take shots of furniture, paint, appliances etc. After I go to a few stores, I sit in my car (not driving, of course) and from CAMERA ROLL, I delete some of the images I just took in Home Depot or Restoration Hardware or in an antique store...
Why then, when I get home, I open Photos on my Mac, and there they are: The images I deleted from my iPhone's Camera Roll. The are in the Mac's Photo Library. I DO NOT have iCloud Library ticked on any device?
Is there an obvious option I'm overlooking so I may choose to not automatically add images to my Mac Photo library?
Is this "glitch" Apple's way of forcing me to use iCloud Library?
Deleting Images
