When I take pictures, it automatically uploads to "Photos" on my Mac because a guy at the Apple Store set it up for me. But when I delete it off my phone, it deletes off my Mac permanently.
Before, I could manually import my photos to my Mac and then delete it off my phone, but now it doesn't show any pictures to import because it already uploads.
How can I bypass this? My phone is holding 7,000 photos and I want to delete some.
MacBook
You must not use iCloud Photos on your iPhone, if you want to have different photo libraries on the iPhone and the Mac. The purpose of iCloud Photos is to keep your devices in sync and to make the photo libraries on all devices identical.
If you want to be able to sync your photos manually between the Mac and the iPhone, disable iCloud Photos on the iPhone. Then you can delete photos from the device without deleting them from the iPhone. Are already all photos from the iPhone on your Mac? If not, I would wait with turning off iCloud on the iPhone, until you are sure, that all photos have been transferred.
If the AppStore also enabled "Optimize Storage" on the iPhone, you have to switch "Download Originals" before you turn off iCloud Photos and then wait for all photos to come back from iCloud.
Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos
Tap "Keep Originals".
You must not use iCloud Photos on your iPhone, if you want to have different photo libraries on the iPhone and the Mac. The purpose of iCloud Photos is to keep your devices in sync and to make the photo libraries on all devices identical.
If you want to be able to sync your photos manually between the Mac and the iPhone, disable iCloud Photos on the iPhone. Then you can delete photos from the device without deleting them from the iPhone. Are already all photos from the iPhone on your Mac? If not, I would wait with turning off iCloud on the iPhone, until you are sure, that all photos have been transferred.
If the AppStore also enabled "Optimize Storage" on the iPhone, you have to switch "Download Originals" before you turn off iCloud Photos and then wait for all photos to come back from iCloud.
Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos
Tap "Keep Originals".
Importing Photos Using iCloud
