…documents stored in iCloud will be deleted from this iPad. Now that you are satisfied that you have all of your pictures, let’s move on to the next part. From here, you can either choose to email five pictures at a time, or save as many as you want to your Camera Roll. If the photos you want to keep are in your Camera Roll, great! However, if the pictures in Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream are not on your device and you want them premanently stored on your device, you can save them to your device by clicking on the Share Button (the one with a square that has an arrow pointing to the right sticking out). These are NOT permanently on your device. Then look through Photo Stream and your Shared Photo Streams. Those are permanently on the device, unless you delete them by hand. Camera Roll is going to be the pictures you have stored on that device. On an iPad, up at the top, in the black bar there will be a button that says Camera Roll, and Photo Stream. On an iPhone or an iPod Touch down on the bottom in the black bar there will be a button labled “Albums” and another labeled “Photo Stream”. On an iOS device, get out of Settings, and open up the Photos app. If you need to check these things before continuing, press the cancel button. It is always better to be safe and double-check than to be sorry. If this is the case, you will have to check to see if the Photo Stream photos are actually saved in your Camera Roll. Others just have one or the other turned on. Some people have both their personal Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream turned on. However, if under your iCloud Settings it says Photo Stream is turned on, tap on it to see what type of Photo Stream is turned on. If under your iCloud Settings it says Photo Stream is turned off, you can ignore part of that alert. Photo Stream is a feature that uses iCloud to push any photos you take to all of your devices, where it will stay for thirty days.īefore continuing, you should figure out whether or not you have Photo Stream turned on. It’s important to note that Photo Stream is different from the photos in your library or Camera Roll. If you delete your account, all Photo Stream photos and documents stored in iCloud will be deleted from this iPad. When you press either the “Delete Account” button on an iOS Device, or the “Sign Out” button on a Mac, the following alerts will be the same.
To do this on a Mac, go into System Preferences and choose iCloud, the press the “Sign Out” button… On an iOS Device, go into the Settings app and scroll down until you see iCloud. To delete the iCloud account from the device, just press the big red “Delete Account” button. In that case, you’ll need to change the email address associated with your Apple ID, which I will be discussing in next week’s article. The email address associated with the Apple ID you are using for iCloud is no longer a valid, active email address.Or one of you is using and enjoying the features and benefits of iCloud whereas the other isn’t and is missing out on features like Backup to iCloud and Find my Device. You also might be getting each other’s iMessages and FaceTime calls. You are both getting frustrated that your contacts are disappearing because you each delete and re-add them and iCloud pushes the changes to both of you. Odds are that your content got merged, and all of your personal information is mixed together. If you are using the same Apple ID as a family member for iCloud, several different outcomes could result from this.
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Check back every Saturday for a new how-to:įirst off, before we begin and actually discuss how to safely delete an iCloud account, we should discuss the different scenarios as to why you might need to delete your iCloud account off of your devices. This is the first entry in our new, weekly how-to’s column.