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On a similar note, deleting old photos to save space on iCloud is very hard. I could mass-delete photos older than a certain date in the Mac Photos app (or what
by codeulike 5y ago
On a similar note, deleting old photos to save space on iCloud is very hard. I could mass-delete photos older than a certain date in the Mac Photos app (or whatever its called these days) using a smart album, but then that mass deletion would not sync to iCloud. Or, I could log into iCloud via a web page and select a load of photos (but not more than 1000 at a time) and delete them - but then it takes ages - like about 20 minutes. Why does it take so long to delete 1000 photos from the cloud? Its unfathomable. And then after deleting them you have to go and find them in the iCloud bin and delete them again - which also takes ages.
I can only conclude that they have made it deliberately very slow and painful to clear space on iCloud. Because they'd rather you paid for more space ...
- alsetmusic 5y ago> I could mass-delete photos older than a certain date in the Mac Photos app (or whatever its called these days) using a smart album, but then that mass deletion would not sync to iCloud. Why wouldn’t it sync? If I did this right now, my expectation is that it would sync. Is there a limitation in how this works?
- codeulike 5y agoI expected it to, but it didn't. The photos got deleted locally but not on iCloud. Maybe it was a glitch? Thats what happened to me.
- kossTKR 5y agoSync for some reason hasn't been working for a decade. It never gets fixed - very weird for a trillion dollar company. Take a photo on you iPhone and it take days for i to show up in the photos app, it instantly shows up in iCloud accessed through the browser. Same thing in various other directions, delete on web, and it takes days to disappear from other places. Makes zero sense. Often if i just took some pictures i have to send them via airdrop instead of just opening Photos. Come on Apple!