Your iPhone photos show up on the family iPad or Mac
What to do
Option 1: the iPad or Mac doesn’t need your photos
- On the iPad, open the Settings app.
- Tap your name, then iCloud, then Photos.
- Turn off Sync this iPad.
- When the iPad asks, choose to remove the photos from the iPad. The other choice keeps a copy on the iPad.
Turning off sync on the iPad changes only the iPad. Your iPhone and iCloud keep your photos. On a Mac, the switch is Sync this Mac, in System Settings under your name, then iCloud, then Photos. Apple’s steps for turning off iCloud Photos. Photos reaching the iPad through a shared album or a Shared Library? See how to stop sharing photos on iPhone.
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Option 2: keep family photos on the iPad or Mac, and private photos on your iPhone
Importing puts a copy of each photo in your vault. The originals stay in the Photos app until you remove them.
- In Underlock, tap the Add button (a plus sign), then Import from Photos.
- Choose the photos to keep on your iPhone only.
- Keep Underlock open until the import finishes.
- When the import finishes, Underlock asks whether to remove the originals from the Photos app. Tap Remove.
- When iOS asks to delete the originals, confirm. The originals move to Recently Deleted in the Photos app.
- While the originals are in Recently Deleted, check that the photos are in your vault.
- To remove the originals for good, delete the originals from Recently Deleted.
Once you confirm the delete in step 5, iCloud Photos removes the originals from the iPad and Mac too. Your vault keeps its own copy.
What Underlock does
- Outside the Photos app. Photos in your vault aren’t in the Photos app, so iCloud Photos doesn’t put them on your iPad or Mac.
- No syncing between devices. Underlock doesn’t sync your vault to an iPad or Mac.
- Encrypted on your iPhone. Everything you add is encrypted on your iPhone before it’s saved.