darmour08

Q: icloud drive v. cloud photo

Okay, so I am a long time apple user and icloud is something I cannot wrap my head around.  I have a new old phone that is a 16gb.  Lost my 6s 64gb.... So now i want to purchase the 50gb/month icloud storage.  All i want to do with this is be able to put photos from my camera roll on my iphone to the icloud drive and then delete the original off my iphone without it deleting from the icloud drive.  Does this work? If not, then do i use the icloud photo sharing thing? I don't have documents or anything else that I really need to put on the cloud.  I just dont want all my photos to fill up my tiny 16gb memory.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 30, 2016 3:17 AM

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sep 30, 2016 3:52 AM in response to darmour08
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    Sep 30, 2016 3:52 AM in response to darmour08

    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.


    You won't want to use iCloud photo sharing either, because a) it doesn't use your cloud space and is limited to the number of albums you can have and b) only keeps low resolution images.