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Deleting photos on iphone and ipad

7 years ago

I'm deleting unwanted photos from iPhone and ipad, but I feel like I'm deleting the same ones over and over. Not sure if my question even makes sense....Is it possible the devices are re-syncing and adding back the photos I've deleted from the other device where it wasn't deleted?

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7 years ago

I delete my photos, then go to the "recently deleted" file and delete those too, although they auto delete after 30 days or so. Often, I hook my phone up to my computer and just transfer all my pictures to my computer and wipe my photos clean off my phone. then I go to iCloud and delete them off "the cloud". It's a lot of work, but I refuse to NOT use iCloud as have had a few friends lose their phones and their photos went with it.

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maire_cate
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
I haven't had that problem and I have a Mac, iPhone and iPad. If I delete from one device it also deletes from the other 2. Is it something in your settings? I usually delete from my phone and when I hit delete - at the bottom of the photo I get the message;

'This photo will be deleted from iCloud Photos on all your devices.'
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socks
Original Author
7 years ago
Yes, I get that message too. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I just think I'm seeing the same ones over and over. I just deleted a pic from the phone and saw it disappear from the ipad as well. It just seems to me I've deleted some pix more than once. Thank you for your reply.
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OklaMoni
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after you delete from the ipad, you have to delete the deleted files in their deleted files folder... weird, yes, but that is what I found out. my phone is an android, so I don't know about your phone.

Moni
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socks
Original Author
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Yes, the pix in the deleted file stay for X number of days before being permanently deleted. Maybe when I look at all the pix, the ones in the deleted file are include until they are permanently deleted.
Michael
7 years ago
Yes. Delete your files, restart your phone. After a few days the files will be permanently deleted.
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socks
Original Author
7 years ago
OK then, thanks all.
mtvhike
7 years ago
My problem is the reverse - I want to save all my photos somewhere at original resolution, but not on ALL my devices.
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User
7 years ago
mtvhike There are various cloud services that you can pay for that will do that. I was not aware that my photos were being saved to the Amazon cloud until I received a notification concerning it a couple of weeks ago. I looked and most of my photos both from my phone, kindle, etc. were on there. There are other cloud services so if you have one you might look as your photos may already be there or can be sent.
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dadoes
7 years ago
I don't use any cloud services. I connect my phone to my computer, it appears as a drive in Windows Explorer. I move (cut, Ctrl-X) photos off the phone to the computer's hard drive.
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mtvhike
7 years ago
My wife and I share an enhanced iCloud account, and all our photos go there. I set up my phone so that a full size image is on the phone as well as on the cloud; she chose to only keep a thumbnail on the phone (to save space). However, if she shares a photo from the phone with someone or attaches it to an email or text, only the low resolution thumbnail gets sent. I don't have that problem.
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