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Q: Help me manage phone storage. How do I transfer photos and videos onto icloud account?

How do i save pictures and videos onto icloud? phone desperately needs cleared out, storage is full and is disabling functions. I just so afraid of losing precious memories stored in the phone. I think icloud storage would be safest place to transfer pictures and vids to as laptops can break but dont have a clue how to do this. HELP Please, how do i do this?

iPhone 5

Posted on Sep 3, 2016 2:09 AM

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Q: Help me manage phone storage. How do I transfer photos and videos onto icloud account?

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sep 3, 2016 2:13 AM in response to aliciarox
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    Sep 3, 2016 2:13 AM in response to aliciarox

    With iCloud Photo Library enabled, you cannot delete a photo on one device (or at iCloud.com) without deleting it from every device that uses iCloud photo library (and iCloud.com). In order to save space on your mobile devices (and indeed your Mac if you wish to do so) turn on optimisation for photos on these devices (settings > photos & camera > optimise storage on your mobile device and Photo preferences > optimise storage on your Mac)


    Optimisation is dynamic, it reduces the resolution of your photos as and when needed, so you may not notice it occurring at first. However when it is needed, it is very effective and users have reported libraries being optimised to much less than 10% of their original size in some cases. My own library is about 9% of its original size on my phone.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 3, 2016 6:27 AM in response to aliciarox
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    Sep 3, 2016 6:27 AM in response to aliciarox

    That is not really the way iCloud is designed - it is not used as an extention of your local storage - it is a place to share information between systems and for Photos you can sync libraries using iClue Photo Library

     

    Although I strongly would not recommend it you could put any data (photos, document, etc) on iCloud Drive and delete them locally - for Photos to access the they would have to be downloaded back to your Mac and imported into Photos

     

    With iCloud Photo Library you can sync libraries between devices and iCloud (every change made n any device will be made on all devices including additions, deletions and edits) and you can use optimized photos on devices with limited storage reducing the storage requirements on them

     

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