- Aug 4, 2008
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Hello,
Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
I have this annoying problem, which should be easy to sort out - yet so far failed to resolve. I have two Apple devices, an iPad Air and an iPod Touch 6th Generation - both using the latest operating system/software (iOS 10.1.1). My PC's operating system is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and obviously I have iCloud for Windows.
As you probably know, the iPad Air has fairly limited storage space - so I don't want it clogged up with photos. But whatever I do, the Air - and the Touch as well - keeps automatically downloading (or syncing) all my photos from the iCloud, taking up a lot of space. If I delete the photos, it just automatically downloads them all again! Even more infuriatingly, or odder, when I deleted all my photos from the Touch it also deleted from the iCloud - so I had to recover them all from the bin: only for all the photos to be downloaded again to my Touch. Yes, I've turned off Photo Stream and Photo Sharing - but that doesn't make any difference.
So a simple question: how do I set it up so that so that all my photos - or videos - are automatically uploaded to the iCloud but are not automatically downloaded again when I delete them from my devices (especially the Air)? Is it even possible? I would just like all my stuff to be stored online in the iCloud, then pick through it all at my leisure.
Thanks,
DANNY O'DARE
Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
I have this annoying problem, which should be easy to sort out - yet so far failed to resolve. I have two Apple devices, an iPad Air and an iPod Touch 6th Generation - both using the latest operating system/software (iOS 10.1.1). My PC's operating system is Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and obviously I have iCloud for Windows.
As you probably know, the iPad Air has fairly limited storage space - so I don't want it clogged up with photos. But whatever I do, the Air - and the Touch as well - keeps automatically downloading (or syncing) all my photos from the iCloud, taking up a lot of space. If I delete the photos, it just automatically downloads them all again! Even more infuriatingly, or odder, when I deleted all my photos from the Touch it also deleted from the iCloud - so I had to recover them all from the bin: only for all the photos to be downloaded again to my Touch. Yes, I've turned off Photo Stream and Photo Sharing - but that doesn't make any difference.
So a simple question: how do I set it up so that so that all my photos - or videos - are automatically uploaded to the iCloud but are not automatically downloaded again when I delete them from my devices (especially the Air)? Is it even possible? I would just like all my stuff to be stored online in the iCloud, then pick through it all at my leisure.
Thanks,
DANNY O'DARE
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