helmsman71 said:
I now have pictures synched to my iPad through the cloud and in my phone's Camera Roll that I want to delete, but cannot seem to find a way to do that. Please help
Settings> General>iCloud>Photos> off.
It will ask to clear all or keep all photos before disabling. You cannot delete single pictures. All or nothing. I Know it's not what ya wanted to here, but that just goes to show ya how "half-assed" Apple can be.
FYI. I don't use Photo Stream.
Instead I use dropbox.
I download the dropbox app (have to have an account, but it's free and completely worth having). All it is, is 2GB of cloud storage that is much easier to manage than anything iCloud related.
Then open Dropbox, login and tap on "Uploads" at the bottom.
Then tap the "+" on the top right corner.
There you can add "almost" as many photos as you need. (limit is 2GB but who the he** has 2GB of photos in there phone.lol). Either way 2GB is plenty to store your photos.
After restore install Dropbox then open the Dropbox app, go to the pics you uploaded and tap on the square with the arrow at the bottom and tap "save image"
Or
Just take a screen shot, which will then save it to your camera roll.
(I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU ARE CONNECTED TO WIFI WHEN SAVING PICTURES FROM THE DROPBOX APP. IF YOU ARE NOT THE PICTURE QUALITY WILL BE SLIGHTLY, YET NOTICEABLY DECREASED)
Now I know this isn't exactly "Automatic" like PhotoStream is, cuz you have to open dropbox and re-save the pics you want in your camera roll................BUT
you can add and delete whichever pictures you choose, on at a time.
Where as PhotoStream only let's you keep all your photos or deletes all your photos.
I choose DropBox. Do you?
Not to mention the other cloud storage accounts I have that are way better than iCloud. Like:
SugarSync
SkyDrive &
Windows Live Mesh (no app store app but can use the site in Safari to save pic to camera roll.)
SkyDrive is by far THE best one.
A ridiculous >25GB< of FREE space.
Plus there is a plugin for you desktop called "SDExplorer"
And allows to to simply drag and drop any file from computer to SkyDrive cloud. (like SugarSync & Dropbox have, except SDExplorer costs money after free trial, but note that SugarSync and dropbox have this functionality for free, only less space is offered)
It cost money, around $13.00 ( NOT A RIP OFF). But there is a free trial, like 2 weeks I think. I just ran out of my trial and pretty sure I installed it about 2 weeks ago.
But SDExplorer is just a little extra convenience.
You can still upload all the file you want to your SkyDrive account through the SkyDrive website. So you don't have to have SDExplorer at all to upload and download files via your SkyDrive account, just slightly quicker access to it. As it is a folder in your comp.
Or you can just make a a shortcut on your desktop that goes straight to your SkyDrive account site
. Almost the same as SDE.lol
And I think with most these you can get more space w/o paying for it simply by having people sign up through a link that you get from Dropbox, or SugarSync. Not sure if SkyDrive has this offer tho.
Well you guys just think about which type of cloud service is best for you. All I know is I'm not too down w/ iCloud yet. Way too many bugs in for me. it was released to soon, as well as pretty much anything Apple releases (software wise anyway..lol).
Good luck.