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iCloud removing the need for Photos?

If I drop all of my photos and videos into iCloud storage, can I stop using Photos on my Mac? I'm hoping that uploading all of my photos and videos to iCloud and removing them from Photos will increase my Mac's performance.

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on May 15, 2020 9:15 AM

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Posted on May 15, 2020 9:28 AM

Unless your Ma is extremely low on storage space, simply having photos on your Mac should not affect its performance.


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: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264


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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May 15, 2020 9:28 AM in response to roshan269

Unless your Ma is extremely low on storage space, simply having photos on your Mac should not affect its performance.


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: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264


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 removing the need for Photos?

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