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I pay for extra iCloud storage and my photos are also taking up my phone storage

I pay for extra iCloud storage and I have the Photos option “on” to save onto my iCloud but my photos are also taking up my phone storage. Why is that? And if I try to delete pictures from my phone, they’ll delete from my iCloud. What do I do?




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iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13

Posted on Feb 3, 2020 6:52 AM

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Posted on Feb 3, 2020 7:46 AM

iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support


Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.



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Feb 3, 2020 7:46 AM in response to lilieth92

iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support


Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.



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