How do you delete photos from Mac but not iCloud?

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How do you delete photos from Mac but not iCloud?

Hi. How do you delete photos from your Mac without deleting them from iCloud?

It says on the official Apple page that this is not possible:

When you delete a photo or video from your Photos app, it also deletes from your iCloud Photos and iCloud storage.

This seems an oversight. I am trying to remove photos from my Mac, because it extremely slow, but want to keep them in iCloud for future viewing. Why is this not possible?

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Apr 25, 2020 7:31 AM

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Apr 25, 2020 7:57 AM in response to doffshat

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.

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

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