Controlling space used by iOS Photos?

I currently have a 64GB iPad but am about to get a 16GB iPad mini. I don't have a problem downgrading the space, my only concern is the photo app. My photos currently use 13GB of storage on my iPad (as I have had an iOS device for many years now). Is there anyway to restrict how much space the photos app uses locally on my iPad, whilst still keeping all of my photos in the cloud?

iCloud's Photo Stream is intended more as a sharing service than a storage or backup service. Even then it will transfer a copy to your devices. My Photo Stream has a 1000 photo and 30 day limit, after these limits are reached older photos are dropped off the stream. The idea behind this stream is to allow you to share your new photos among your devices, typically including a computer where you can easily back them up.
Shared Photo Streams may be an option, but will still download a copy to your device. These streams do not have the same limitations as My Photo Streams although are more intended to be used to share photos with friends and family with a social commenting capability.
The best option is to get your photos off your iOS devices as soon as you can after taking them. That's where My Photo Stream is handy. Once on a computer they can be propperly backed up then organized and selectively synced to your devices through iTunes.
If you still want an online solution look into an online service which could be used with your computer as well to enhance the backup. Something like Picasa which is made for photos or Dropbox which is a storage service with good photo organization as well as iOS apps.

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Hello Maahk,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you would like to optimize your Photos storage. If you are using iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone, please read over the information in the attached article.
iCloud Photo Library FAQ - Apple Support
Can I use iCloud Photo Library to save space on my device?
iCloud Photo Library automatically keeps all your photos and videos in the original, high-resolution version. Follow these steps to choose how you store your photos and videos on your device:
In iOS, tap Settings > iCloud > Photos or Settings > Photos & Camera, then select a storage setting.
In OS X, click Photos > Preferences > iCloud, then select a storage setting.
If you turn on Optimize [device] Storage, iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever. All of your original, full-resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud while device-size versions are kept on your device. You can download the original photos and videos over Wi-Fi or cellular when you need them.
If you turn on Download Originals, iCloud Photo Library will keep your original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and on your device. Download Originals is the default setting for iOS devices with the free 5 GB storage plan and for all Mac devices.
Have a great day,
Joe

Ios 5 app removal still shows space used by apps as other

I have an ipad and a 3gs. Both worked fine till i installed ios 5. Now both devices can sync music apps and seem to run fine. When i remove the apps or music it shows the used space as other instead of apps or music. it does not show it as free space after i romove it. total of 28gb free and use 5 gb for apps. leaving 23gb free. i remove the apps and it shows 5gb used in other. still 23 gb free. so i have to restore the original software in order to get free space again. I have a second computer that did not have itunes on it. downloaded itunes on it 64bit and it does the same thing on that computer. any ideas?

iCloud's Photo Stream is intended more as a sharing service than a storage or backup service. Even then it will transfer a copy to your devices. My Photo Stream has a 1000 photo and 30 day limit, after these limits are reached older photos are dropped off the stream. The idea behind this stream is to allow you to share your new photos among your devices, typically including a computer where you can easily back them up.
Shared Photo Streams may be an option, but will still download a copy to your device. These streams do not have the same limitations as My Photo Streams although are more intended to be used to share photos with friends and family with a social commenting capability.
The best option is to get your photos off your iOS devices as soon as you can after taking them. That's where My Photo Stream is handy. Once on a computer they can be propperly backed up then organized and selectively synced to your devices through iTunes.
If you still want an online solution look into an online service which could be used with your computer as well to enhance the backup. Something like Picasa which is made for photos or Dropbox which is a storage service with good photo organization as well as iOS apps.

TS1702 how can I remove large number of photos on my iPhone 4s from iTunes using a PC - Lenovo Think Pad - so that I can reduce the space used on the phone by 50%?

how can I remove large number of photos on my iPhone 4s from iTunes using a PC - Lenovo Think Pad - so that I can reduce the space used on the phone by 50%?

You don't need iTunes for that. Simply connect the iPhone to the PC where it will be recognized as a camera. You can then select the photos you wish to transfer, transfer them, and delete them.

I deleted all my photos and videos and then delete the deleted files but the photo app is still taking up 12 GB of space and I have no room for new stuff. How can I clear the memory space used by my deleted videos and photos?

I deleted all my photos and videos and then delete the deleted files but the photo app is still taking up 12 GB of space and I have no room for new stuff. How can I clear the memory space used by my deleted videos and photos? I don't know why the photos are still taking up space and if I will have to reset my phone to get rid of the problem.

Hey there TowneJ,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The article linked below provides troubleshooting tips that’ll likely resolve the issue that you’ve described, where deleted files appear to be taking up space on your iPhone 5.
If you get a "Not enough free space" alert on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
So long,
-Jason

Using CS3 Web Photo Gallery Control Panel in Bridge CS4?

I found where the styles are located in the library, and it doesn't look like the old templates will work with the new Output feature of Bridge. I want to use my old templates from CS3 that I have customized, and would like to use them with Bridge. I have installed the extra Goodies, but they will only work through Photoshop, not Bridge.
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Thank you:)

Hi Paul,
I'm not a Lightroom user, but the new Web Photo Galleries that come in CS4 are in Bridge. They are Lightroom templates, so there's probably not much difference. I just tried building a gallery in CS4 Bridge with 35 files, and I could not preview more than 10 either through Bridge or in a browser by pressing the preview button. The only way to preview the entire gallery before uploading was by saving the folder, then opening the index file in a browser.
Web Photo Galleries can be created in Photoshop and Bridge CS4 just like they were in previous versions of Photoshop and Bridge. You do need to configure it using the optional Goodies files since it is not part of the initial installation. It's real easy. The link I posted above has more information. Here it is again:
http://generatex.com/cs4.html
If you do that, you'll have the best of both worlds. You'll have the option of creating web photo galleries with html templates in Bridge or Photoshop CS4, previewing them easily (regardless of size), and have the option of using the new Lightroom flash templates in Bridge CS4.

HT5457 Help! I used to upload photos via ios and it was always published up to my 5th photos, but on the 6th, it just go to ios photos album and was not published on my fb's timeline...

Help! I used to upload photos via ios and it was always published up to my 5th photos, but on the 6th, it just go to ios photos album and was not published on my fb's timeline...

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
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TD

HSL Panel cannot control individual colors in the photos. Using the target tool and the colors change in the entire photo.?

HSL Panel. When using the targeted tool I cannot control individual colors in the photo. In Luminance the entire photo is changing not just one area?

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My IPhone 4S has 9GB of "other" space used. How do I determine what "other" is. I need to make space to upgrade my phone to IOS 8.1.1

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I use the cloud to back up my iPhone 5. I noticed that when I delete or transfer photos off of my phone/delete, and then do another back up, the amount used for that back up does not decrease. I would think taking photos off, which are backed up to the cloud, would decrease the amount of cloud space used since they no longer are being backed up as they are off the phone.
For now, I am deleting my back up after I remove the photos from the phone and making a fresh back up, which of course would not include the photos I removed, and consequently taking up less space in the cloud.
Explain please.

Apple states that iCloud keeps the 3 most recent back ups. You would therefore not expect the size of your back up file to be reduced immediately.

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HT204264 iDevice Sync Query - IOS Photos & iCloud Photo Library over filling ipad iphone storage - what happens next?

Device Sync Query - IOS Photos & iCloud Photo Library fills ipad iphone storage - what happens next?
Quick question, when you select IOS Photo / IiCloud storage (photos are optimised etc) what happens when ipad / iphone storage is full and you now need to add new apps, photos etc? In my case I have 3 * 64gb ipads & 2 * 128 gb iphone but these are all filling up with photos since enabling IOS Photo & iCloud Photo Library (as all of my photos on each device are now copbined on every device as well as the cloud). This has become a problem as when I try to sync my idevice I get the device full warning (and I am assuming I now need to delete apps / videos if I want to sync or make more space for new photos etc). As far as I can tell once you enable IOS Photos and iCloud all photos will upload at original resolution and download at idevice resolution and there is no way to select / control the photos you want to keep on phone (eg if you delete photo on phone it will now delete the original on cloud).
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- Is there away to limit control or limit the number of IOS photos that sync to each idevice (eg by starring photos)? I had a look and can not see away to select photos you want to keep or remove (without deleting them on cloud). As per above I am hoping that the IOS sync and icloud systems are smart enough to replace Photos that have already upgraded to cloud with a lower quality / thumbnail to make more more room for new photos and apps (but not clear if this occurs)
- If this is a problem now what happens once the new PHOTOS launches for OS Desktop eg will it add in all our photos from iphoto to the icloud then to the idevice as part of the OS PHOTOS UPGRADE. I have 15-30 gb of photos in IPHOTO that are now backing up to icloud, there needs to be away to only select starred photos or albums or every photo try to download to my iphone (which will kill my storage). There also needs to be away to keep photos on idevice (for those times when you do not have internet and can not download from iCloud to iDevice
Apologies if I have missed something obvious and welcome any thoughts & answers.
If there is no solution then Apple needs to look at this and highlight it as a risk to customers who switch as this is being sold as a way to minimise your device storage but can lead to to customers using up more storage for photos on ipad iphone as a result of switch to IOS PHOTOS &
iCloud Photo Library

Things are not as dire as they might seem at first glance. My 66GB iPhoto Library became a 40GB iCloud Photo Library (~11K photos, ~300 videos) and only uses 2.2GB on my iPad and 2.4GB on my iPhone. Scaling that experience, a 64GB/128GB iOS device should be able to easily handle a 300GB iPhoto library. My iPad and iPhone are 32GB devices and I expect them to be livable through at least 30-40K of photos.
16GB devices have always been problematic for space even before iCloud Photo Library so I'd expect anybody with a 16GB device and more than a few thousand photos is not going to be able to use iCloud Photo Library with it. They will have to use iCloud Photo Streaming to get photos to iCloud Photo Library and iCloud Photo Sharing or iTunes syncing to get a subset of photos back to the device. Not a great solution but workable. However, it wrecks one of the best features for me which is using my iPad to edit the photos I take on my iPhone.
The part that worries me is the automatic space management routine. The problem it creates is that I might want to add a movie, but there won't be enough space, and my only option will be to reset iCloud Photo Library on the device to get back to all thumbnails on it to see if that gets me the space I need. I've already had to do it a couple of times with iTunes Match and it's not fun. It all depends on how aggressive Photo Library will be in trimming off full-size photos/videos and Apple appears to be leaving it a black box at this point. It would at least be nice to know an estimate of the minimum size so I know how much space I can recapture.

Not Enough Space to Sync My Photos After Updating to 4.3

With iOS 4.2, I was able to sync my entire Aperture photo library to my iPad and still had about 3GB to spare on it. It's a 32GB iPad. If I recall correctly, the photos took up about 6GB on it. After updating to 4.3 today, iTunes is telling me that it can not sync my photos to it because there is not enough space.
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OK, I got it to work. Here is what I did.
First it seems that iTunes is over-estimating the size of the photo library before it re-optimizes it. I have 17k of photos that I sync. It was reporting it would need in excess of 30GB of space to sync it (actually it only reports that there's not enough space, it doesn't give you actual numbers, but I was able to calculate them).
So I cleared off all my videos from my iPad and whatever photos iTunes did sync to it and thus I had just over 20 GB free. Still wasn't enough space to sync my photos iTunes would report.
I know previously that my photos fit on my iPad under iOS 4.2 and even if Apple has changed the optimization process resulting in larger image files, I can't believe they would be 5x larger. So I decided to sync just a fraction of my photos. I synced about a third of my photos. iTunes reported that it would be using 10.5 GB of space for those photos. But once it optimized them and synced them to my iPad, it was less than 2GB of space. So I knew I would be able to fit them all, it is just that iTunes is over-estimating the size.
After a third of my photos were already synced to my iPad, now iTunes was reporting it would need 16.5GB for my entire library. I synced it.
In the end, I was able to sync my entire photo library back to my iPad and the resulting space used for it is 5.8 GB, not over 30GB as iTunes was estimating originally.
So if anyone else is having this issue, try clearing out some space on your iPad, and then syncing only a fraction of your library (a third or half) after that, then try syncing your entire library again. Once you do, you can put back media that you cleared out to make space.
Cheers,
Louis

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This is a problem because I get a huge mishmash of photos from different dates, times etc in this album called iOS Photos. Instead of commenting on an individual upload, people end up commenting on the whole iOSPhotos album. So you get a huge odd conversation appearing over time as more photos end up in there.
Apple, could you please allow us to upload a photo to the timeline, without forcing it into a specific album? Or to allow us to create a new Album on the fly?

Once again, very aggressive and defensive response. Neither addresses the question nor aids in finding a workaround.
The Facebook api is open to all, and allows any album or the timeline to be specified. Many other apps and platforms manage that. So the Facebook end of this is available and ready to use.
It is an Apple choice to load to 1 specific album only, instead of offering the user a choice of album, or indeed the timeline. So the only part of this Facebook/Apple interface that needs a change to address this request is the Apple end.
My Android kit does this nicely enough, as does my Macbook Pro , its just my IOS devices that struggle.
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The problems is that the Adobe Revel app for my iPhone 4 (along with all IOS Revel Apps) insists on storing thumbnails of ALL my photos from my entire 16,000+ photo collection. This means that upwards of 500 megabytes worth of space on my phone is constantly dedicated to storing thumbnails that I will rarely need. While this might not seem like a big deal to some, on a device with 14 gigs worth of free space, 500 megabytes is the equivalent of half a movie or a few medium length audiobooks.
I appreciate the convenience of being able to scroll through everything quickly because it is already loaded. I understand that. But its the 21st century and I think we should have a little choice as to how much space this app takes up. I mean, my photo collection isn't exactly going to be getting any smaller is it?
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Because right now the app is completely broken. Any attempt to open the app causes the message to pop up "Not enough local storage space: The import was stopped because there is not enough storage available for Revel on this device. Please free up space and try again." Dismissing this message only allows it to pop up again IMMEDIATELY. Can we at least fix the app so that I can still import to the cloud from my phone even when my phone cannot accept any more thumbnails?
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

If you use a MAC then you can check the status view of the library(s) and to ensure nothing is in the upload queue. You can do this by looking at each library, and clicking on the dot to the left of the name. It will give you a status for that library. If you are sure all the uploads are done, clear the caches for each and every library.You may have more than one library using space.
On your iphone or ipad, go to the library view for each library and look at the bottom left cloud icon above the libary icon. Next to that you will see "up to date" if it has completed the sync. You can click on the cloud icon for more information.
You can also confirm the images are uploaded by signing into the same account using another device or using a browser at www.adoberevel.com. Try downloading some original images. If other uploads are complete, you should see the new images upload and be able to view them.
If the files are in sync and clearing the cache does not help, I suggest you delete the app and reload it. Your photos will still be safely stored in the cloud. You will have some delay the first time you use it due to loading in the thumbnails. Please let me know if this reduces the amount of space used.
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