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Hmpjackson Author

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photo storage

If I upload all my photos to my iCloud,

can I delete the photos from my phone to save space on my phone without losing them in iCloud?

iPhone 6s Plus

Posted on Jun 21, 2020 1:32 PM

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Winston Churchill

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Jun 21, 2020 4:05 PM in response to Hmpjackson

No, they get optimised on your phone and iCloud keeps the original version.

You can't delete photos from your phone without deleting them from iCloud. If you want to delete photos from your phone you will need to put them into a different cloud service or onto a computer if you have one.

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Hmpjackson Author

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Jun 21, 2020 3:56 PM in response to Winston Churchill

my goal is to get the photos in a safe place OFF my phone. I only have 16g memory and 3,000 photos, not working.

I need to clear them off my phone to save space.

so, they optimize in cloud, i dont need them on my phone and I can delete them?

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Jun 21, 2020 1:39 PM in response to Hmpjackson

Welcome to the Apple Community.

No. But you can optimise them to save space on your phone.

Settings ➔ Photos & camera ➔ Optimise iPhone(iPad/iPod) Storage

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Hmpjackson Author

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Jun 21, 2020 2:28 PM in response to Winston Churchill

i use that setting, no- I will loose them?

if I loose them, what is the point of ICloud?

I looked at it as an extra storage place.

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Jun 21, 2020 2:38 PM in response to Hmpjackson

No you won't lose your photos if you enable optimisation. That's the point of iCloud, so you can keep full versions of your photos etc in the cloud and optimised versions on the phone to save space.

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