HT4946 Camera roll taking iCloud storage space?

If photostream doesn't count against the 5GB of storage on iCloud, why is it showing that 3.5GB of my backup is for my camera roll?

When you take a photo or video on the phone, or save a photo from an email, the web, a text message, etc., they are saved to your camera roll album.  Photos added to the camera roll are then added to your photo stream when you camera is off, your phone is connected to wifi and you have at least 20% battery life remaining.
Photo stream photos are then synced to your other devices sharing the same iCloud account with photo stream enabled.  These photos appear in your my photo stream album.  They are separate from the ones in your camera roll album (you can delete the photo from one and it will remain in the other) and do not count against your iCloud storage.
The iCloud (and iTunes) backup includes the photos and videos stored in your camera roll album, but not the ones stored in your my photo stream album.  The backup, of course, does count against your storage plan.

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  • HT4847 if i delete camera roll from iCloud to free some space, did i loose my photos?

    if i delete camera roll from iCloud to free some space, did i loose my photos?

    What exactly have you deleted.
    If you have deleted the photos from your camera roll on your device, then you may well have lost them, assuming that they are not also in photo stream.
    Please tell is exactly what you deleted and from where.

  • HT4906 How do I delete photos that were in my Camera Roll from iCloud? I deleted them on my phone, but I'm still getting the notification that my iCloud backup is almost full.

    After getting the notification that my icloud backup space was running out on my iphone5, I deleted 300 photos from my Camera Roll. But it didn't increase any space in my icloud storage. How do I remove those photos from my icloud storage without deleting the rest of the Camera Roll from icloud backup?

    Does this involve iPhoto for the Mac in any way?
    If your backup space is full then the best souiton is to increase the amount of space you have by purchasing more since backups are critical to not losing things
    You can not remove things from iCloud directly
    Your question I believe belongs in the iCloud forum - possibly in the iPhone forum - unless there is somehting I do not see here it does not belonge here in the iPhoto for Mac forum
    LN

  • HT4847 Viewing camera roll on iCloud

    How do I view my camera roll on iCloud so I can delete part, but not all of it?

    Welcome to the Apple community.
    It is photo stream that is part of iCloud. What photo stream does when you enable it, is to take any new photos taken on your mobile device after photo stream was activated, and add them to the photo stream album. iCloud will then sync the photos within the photo stream album to the cloud, where they can be synced to other mobile devices and iPhoto on your Mac that are also enabled for photo stream. It does not place copies of those photos at iCloud.com.
    Photo stream will only keep your photos for 30 days and can hold no more than 1000 photos at any one time. Although photo stream photos are deleted from the cloud after 30 days, they are not necessarily deleted from the photo stream albums on each device. However if you were to start deleting photos from your camera roll to free up space, any photos that were removed from photo stream at any time, may well mean that you end up without those photos on your mobile device.

  • IPhone 5:  Restoring Camera Roll from iCloud Backup.

      When restoring all data from iCloud Backup, Camera Roll never finished downloading.  It was stuck at 5 out of 715.  How can I restore Camera Roll from iCloud Backup now that the initial "start up" Restore is complete?

    Got my photos & videos back into camera roll!  I woke this morning and all 701 were there.  This is a few less than the most recent backup had, but good enough. So, there were a few things flakey about my experience restoring from iCloud.  Therefore as many, including yourself have noted, iCloud IS ABSOLUTELY NOT A TRUSTED METHOD for backing up, storing or restoring photos & videos.  If your photos & videos are important to you, backup to your computer at regular intervals. 
    What worked?
    1:  Following randers4's suggestion to review ezjules' post (see above for link).
    2:  When the most recent backup failed, I went to the next one available (2 days old)
    3:  When the Photo App displaying X of XXX images downloading in camera roll got hung up on the first few images, I powered down the phone and it resumed downloading more.  However, it hung up 2 more times and then proceeded while I went to bed. 
    4:  Phone was plugged into A/C outlet entire time, no incoming or outgoing phone calls or texts. 
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  • Delete from Camera Roll vs iCloud shared album

    Hi everyone,
    I am trying to figure out whether or not photos that I delete from my Camera Roll (to free up space) will also be deleted from Shared Albums (via iCloud Photo Sharing) with family members.
    Looking forward to your responses.
    Freerk

    Hi iFredo,
    Pictures shared with a Share Photo Stream are not deleted by deleting them from your camera roll on your device. They must be deleted from the stream manually. See this article -
    iCloud Photo Sharing FAQ
    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    Best,
    Brett L 

  • How can I cancel my order for extra ICloud storage space?

    How can I cancel my order for extra ICloud storage space?
    I don't need it afterall...

    Call Apple. 1-800-My-Apple

  • Icloud storage space for Mac book

    Will I get any extra icloud storage space , when I buy mac book pro. I am already using iPhone and ipad, so my 5GB icloud storage is almost finished. I know creating one more icloud I'd can give 5GB more , but I don't want too much ID and password.

    The 5GB is tied to the account, not the devices using it, so no matter how many devices you have logged into it you still only have 5GB free for the one account. As said, you can purchase more: additional 10GB, $20 p.a., 20 GB, $40 p.a., 50GB $100 p.a.

  • Can't find what's taking up icloud storage space from my ipone.

    I have turned off all the apps from backing up, cleared photos, imessages, safari cookies, and iphone is still taking up 4.2 gigs.
    Contacts are the only thing I am still backing up.
    What else could be taking up this space?

    I made those changes a few days ago and it has not changed hardly anything.
    All of the apps. are turned off except Pages, Keynote, and Numbers.
    Mail is only 34.5MB.
    Even the camera roll.
    Documents and Data is 3.6MB from Pages Keynotes and Numbers.
    I am still showing 4.2 gigs of back up space being used by my phone now and on the next back up.
    Either there is a problem with my icloud account or I am missing something else.
    Thanks for the help.

  • After putting my photos on icloud and deleting them off my camera roll to save storage, they were all gone off of icloud the next morning. This was before we could recover them with ios8. HELP.

    I went to the One Direction concert August 19, 2014. I took several videos and pictures on my phone and wanted to save storage since my phone is only 16 GB, so right after the concert I put the images and videos on iCloud and deleted them off my camera roll. The next morning I woke up to look at them on my iCloud and every single video and picture was gone. GONE. This was before iOS8 let you recover deleted photos. As a desperate fangirl, please help me out. I've spent months in stress and utter sadness due to this. I want to know how to get my precious pictures and videos back.

    I did it on my phone; I shared them to iCloud on my iPhone and then deleted them off of my camera roll, because I knew they would be stored on my iCloud. But, as you see, the next morning they were gone. :(((((((((((

  • What will happen to the photos on my iPhone 5 if I turn off Camera Roll under Manage Storage/This Phone?

    I only have 238 mb of Cloud storage left for my phone.  When I checked what is using all of my space, I saw that 4.2GB of space is used by Camera Roll.  All of the Camera Roll pictures are in iPhoto on my Mac Book Pro and most are also archived on an external drive.  Will they disappear from my phone and/or computer if I uncheck the Camera Roll for back ups?  What happens if I do that and turn it back on a week from now?

    They will not be erased from your phone, they will only not be included in the iCould backup anymore.
    If you take many photos and videos with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you might notice that they take up most of your iCloud storage. To check the size of the backup on your device in iOS 8 or later, tap Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage. (If you're using an earlier version of iOS, tap Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > Manage Storage.) Then tap the name of your iOS device. The backup size is under Photo Library.
    To reduce the size of your Photo Library backup, save your photos and videos to your computer, then manually back up your iOS device. If you want to keep your photos and videos on your iOS device, you can turn off Photo Library in Backup using the steps above or purchase more storage. If there are any photos that you don't want to keep, you can delete them. Just open photos and select the item you want to delete. Then click the Trash icon and tap Delete Photo.
    copied from:
    iCloud: Managing your iCloud storage

  • Deleting the pictures my camera roll to iCloud Photo Library beta?

    What if I delete several pictures from my camera roll then will it automatic to delete from iCloud Photo Library beta?

    Yes according to the quote below from iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ - Apple Support
    Deleting a photo or video from your Photos app will also remove the item from iCloud Photo Library and from your iCloud storage allocation. Photos and videos you remove can be recovered from the Recently Deleted album for 30 days. After 30 days, your content will be removed from the Recently Deleted album. Photos are backed up on our servers for up to 30 days after they're deleted from the Photos app.
    If you are wanting to keep the photo but reduce storage space used on the phone, the following quote from the same source may help:
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    If you turn on Optimize [device] Storage, iCloud Photo Library will automatically manage the size of your library on your iOS device, so you can make the most of your device's storage and access more photos than ever. iCloud Photo Library stores the original, high-resolution photos and videos in iCloud and can keep lightweight, device-optimized versions on each of your devices. As long as you have enough storage, recent photos and videos that you access the most will stay on your device at full resolution.
    You can turn on Optimize [device] Storage from Settings > iCloud > Photos or Settings > Photos & Camera > iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. You need an Internet connection to access an original photo or video that’s stored only in iCloud.

  • Camera roll vs iCloud

    I deleted most of my photos and my camera roll is still taking up too much space in iCloud..why!?

    Welcome to the Apple Community.
    I assume you mean in your back up, what makes you think that it's the camera roll that is taking up the room.

  • Camera Roll to iCloud. How does this work?

    I need help with my photos on camera roll. I need to delete them to have more space on my phone to take more. I want to be able to keep the pics in my camera roll though. I have iCloud and a bunch of space on there. How do I know for sure that the pics will be saved on iCloud and not deleted when I delete the camera roll?
    Thanks

    Learn about Photo Stream:
    iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
    iCloud: Photo Stream
    See if your photos are there.  If so, you can delete them from Camera Roll.  But remember that photos are not guaranteed to stay in Photo Stream forever.

  • Camera roll to iCloud

    Is it possible to move my entire camera roll to my iCloud account in order to free up space on my iPhone?

    You can do this by adding the photos to a shared stream and inviting yourself as a subscriber (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99 for details).

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