User Guide

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Delete a photo or video from Photos. Tap the Photos tab, tap the photo or video, tap , then
tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. Deleted photos and videos are kept in the Recently Deleted
album on iPod touch, with a badge showing the remaining days until the item is permanently
removed from iPod touch. To delete the photo or video permanently before the days expire, tap
the item, tap Delete, then tap Delete Photo or Delete Video. If you use iCloud Photo Library beta,
deleted photos and videos are permanently removed from all iOS 8.1 devices that use iCloud
Photo Library beta with the same Apple ID.
Recover a deleted photo or video. In the Recently Deleted album, tap the photo or video, tap
Recover, then tap Recover Photo or Recover Video to move the item to the Camera Roll or, if you
use iCloud Photo Library beta, the All Photos album.
My Photo Stream
My Photo Stream, turned on by default, automatically uploads new photos and videos to your
other devices that use My Photo Stream.
Turn My Photo Stream on or o. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera, or Settings > iCloud >
Photos.
Note: Photos stored in iCloud count against your total iCloud storage, but photos uploaded to
My Photo Stream don’t count additionally against your iCloud storage.
Use My Photo Stream without iCloud Photo Library beta. Photos and videos you take with
iPod touch are added to the My Photo Stream album when you leave the Camera app and
iPod touch is connected to Wi-Fi. Any photos you add—including screenshots and photos saved
from email, for example—also appear in your My Photo Stream album.
Photos and videos added to My Photo Stream on your other devices appear in your My Photo
Stream album on iPod touch. iOS devices can keep up to 1000 of your most recent photos in
iCloud for 30 days; you can choose to automatically import these photos to your computer, if you
want to keep them permanently.
Manage My Photo Stream contents. In the My Photo Stream album, tap Select.
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Save your best shots on iPod touch: Select the photos, then tap Add To.
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Share, print, or copy: Select the photos, then tap .
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Delete photos: Select the photos, then tap .
Note: Although deleted photos are removed from My Photo Stream on all your devices,
the original photos remain in Photos on the device on which they were originally taken.
Photos that you save to another album on a device or computer are also not deleted. See
support.apple.com/kb/HT4486.
Use My Photo Stream with iCloud Photo Library beta. If you enable iCloud Photo Library beta
on iPod touch, you can use My Photo Stream to upload recent photos and videos and view them
on other devices that do not have iCloud Photo Library beta enabled.