How do I delete photos from "my photos?

How can I delete some of the photos on iCloud Photo Stream, without deleting all the photos?

  • Apple has created an amazing program iCloud, and not giving you the ability to delete photos. Like when my camera went crazy and I took 63 black photos of empty space. If you want delete them I have to delete them all. A follow up question to

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    You can't.  As pointed out in the question you're following-up on, Apple has not provided this capability in either iOS 5 or http://iCloud.com. Theoretically you could probably remove photos from your device itself by jailbreaking and deleting them manually or finding an app on Cydia that would do this for you.  This would not delete them from the Photo Stream on iCloud itself, but would remove them from your device and they would not reappear unless you toggled Photo Stream off and back on again.  Photo Stream only "pushes" new photos -- it doesn't actually sync anything in terms of what's already there. There is no way to delete them from http://iCloud.com, however, without resetting the entire Photo Stream.  The workaround is to do the rest, and then use either iPhoto, Aperture, or the Photo Stream folder on Windows to re-upload those photos that you want to put back into the Photo Stream.  It effectively provides the same end result, but obviously takes a bit more time and bandwidth to pull off. Update: As points out in the comments, it appears that this will be changing once iOS 5.1 is released, at least somewhat.  The current iOS 5.1 beta 2 allows users to delete any photo from the local Photo Stream on a device.  Deletions will only propagate to other devices if they were originally uploaded from iOS 5.1, however, presumably since photos taken and uploaded in iOS 5.0 probably didn't include information that would be required to uniquely identify them and therefore ensure they could be reliably deleted across multiple devices. There has been no word at this point on whether this functionality will be coming to other Photo Stream clients such as iPhoto, Aperture and the iCloud Control Panel for Windows, although it seems very likely that it will appear shortly after iOS 5.1 is released to the public.

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