Deletion behaviour in Photos and iCloud Library

[daniel.ord]

This is probably simple, but I can't wrap my head around it. I upgraded to iCloud Photo Library because the reviews were pretty ok. Now I can't figure out album behaviour.

Say I create an album by selecting photos in the "All Photos" section, and then delete a photo in that album. Does that only delete the photo in the album, not from my main iCloud storage?

In other words, if I don't want my iCloud storage to fill up, I have to go through photos in the "All Photos" section before making the album - the two aren't linked?

This is going to take a lot more discipline to not fill up the storage, isn't it? (Before Photo Stream would offload to my Mac once a month).

 

[LV426]

Say I create an album by selecting photos in the "All Photos" section, and then delete a photo in that album. Does that only delete the photo in the album, not from my main iCloud storage?

Deleting a photo from an album will only have the effect of removing the photo from that album. The photo itself will still exist.

If you Cmd-Delete a photo in an album, this will remove the photo from the album and delete the photo.

A truly deleted photo hangs around for 30 days or so in a Deleted Photos section, so you can recover them if need be. You can also go to the Deleted Photos section and remove those from there immediately and permanently.

 

[daniel.ord]

Thank you! The cmd-delete trick is just what I was looking for! Maybe there is hope yet for iCloud Photo Library and me