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How To: Reset Photo Stream To Delete Photographs
One of the interesting new features to accompany iCloud and iOS 5 is the ability for all your photographs to be streamed to the cloud and then sent to all your devices for up to 30 days. The only other limit to the service is it will store only the last 1000 photographs in the stream.
Since it’s inception many people have asked how do I delete a photo I don’t want to be shown from Photo Stream. The current answer is you are unable to do this at the present time unless you are prepared to turn the service off or reset your stream via the following method.
Using your web browser navigate to iCloud.com and enter your username and password. You will then be presented with the following window:
Click on your username as highlighted in the above image. Doing so will load your account details. You will notice midway in this window that you have an “Advanced” button. Simply click and the following window will be presented:
Simply click ‘Reset Photo Stream’ and all your photographs currently in the stream will be removed from the iCloud service.
Please note performing this function will not remove photographs from your devices or your computer.
I would advise before resetting the stream that you delete any photographs on your devices that you don’t wish to have shown again. Otherwise, they may inadvertently appear.
Please remember you can also disable Photo Stream on a single device thereby preventing any photographs on select devices from being uploaded to the Photo Stream.
