I have quite a few iOS devices on the same iCloud account and the "All Photos" (camera roll?) keeps propagating >9000 images/videos between all devices. I would like to get to "Camera Roll Zero" and reclaim all space being used by Photos at present.
Each time I connect a different device to my primary Mac, it appears that all photos appear again in apps like Image Capture.app
, while Photos.app
continues to show the old photos at the top in the import pane.
I've discovered a handy little app called PhotoSync.app
for iOS and a helper app on macOS that seems as though it will do a "proper" syncing vs the junk that Apple does, but the program is gagging with having such a HUGE camera roll. Whenever I run it, it starts downloading images from iCloud during the transfer process.
So I'm hoping to figure out how to sanitize all of my iOS devices so that I don't have this enormous collection that still uses several gigabytes on my iOS devices even when I supposedly don't have any photos/videos on the device and my "Recently Deleted" album is at 0.