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Deleting photos


 

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Hi:
I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything.
Thanks.
Carol


 

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HI

The only way to delete from phone without impacting the iCloud Library is stop synching the iPhone photos ?from using the iCloud.?

Goto Settings, your Apple ID, iCloud, Saved to iCloud section, tap Photos and turn off the Sync this Phone.?

When needed you can manually import pictures from the phone into Photos by using the cable connection to your Mac.

Paul

On Jan 3, 2025, at 6:50?AM, floridabouvs via groups.io <floridabouvs@...> wrote:

Hi:
I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything.
Thanks.
Carol


 

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I have two collections. One synced. One not. I use two Photos libraries to do this. If you option-click Photos to open it, you will get a dialog to select the library file you want to open. This dialog also allows you to create a “New” library and store it wherever you like. The original library will be labeled the “system”?library but otherwise they go by their filenames. ?My second library is on an external drive because it is very large and I don’t want it synced to iCloud.

You can only have one library open at a time, but you can have as many libraries as you wish. There are utilities that make switching a bit simpler. I don’t bother.

There is another strategy that I don’t use so proceed with caution, but you can deselect “copy photos” in the settings. This allows you to store originals outside the library, but store links to them in the library. Linked files are not synced to iCloud. Using this strategy, photos you take with your phone will be synchronized, but Photos that you drag into Photos on your Mac will not be synchronized because they are links only. If you want to do this selectively, you’ll have to do some juggling with turning this setting on and off.

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On Jan 4, 2025, at 12:30?AM, Paul via groups.io <paul@...> wrote:

HI

The only way to delete from phone without impacting the iCloud Library is stop synching the iPhone photos ?from using the iCloud.?

Goto Settings, your Apple ID, iCloud, Saved to iCloud section, tap Photos and turn off the Sync this Phone.?

When needed you can manually import pictures from the phone into Photos by using the cable connection to your Mac.

Paul

On Jan 3, 2025, at 6:50?AM, floridabouvs via groups.io <floridabouvs@...> wrote:

Hi:
I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything.
Thanks.
Carol