losing photos from iCloud when you delete them from your device

Hi, if you go to settings/pictures and then press optimize iPhone storage all of your photos shouldn’t take up more space than a few megabytes. I have around 2500 photos and a lot of videos and in the “pictures” tab under storage it only takes up 200mb.

I hope this helps.

Is Apple looking into this or are they content in users filling up their phones and having to delete what they don't want.

While this may not be a rant, you are asking a question that speaks to Apple policy. that is not permitted here either. Nobody here would know what Apple is looking in to. Your question skews to negative.

This is how iCloud photos is designed to work at present. It is your choice to "fill up your phone" You don't need to delete photos, as there are many options to offload them.

iCloud's primary design is more of convenience than storage. Having your entire photo library available on multiple devices is what it does best. The amount of storage on your device is finite. iCloud can help with some level of off device storage with optimization.

If another cloud based service suits your needs, use it.

Otherwise, feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Okay, the quality isn’t decreased so that you could actually see a difference, and when you send a picture to someone, or, set a wallpaper from your photos, the full picture is first automatically downloaded so you get the full version. 🙂