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ggzamodei Author

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Freeing up storage on my iPad

To free up space once you have backed up your photos on your device To IClouddo you then delete them from the device?

Posted on Aug 22, 2020 8:34 AM

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LotusPilot

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Posted on Aug 22, 2020 8:57 AM

Photos in iCloud is a sharing/synchronisation service - that makes you photo content available to other devices, or via a web browser from any computer.

Photos in iCloud does not provide a separate storage archive for you photos; if you delete photos from your iPad or iPhone, the iCloud copy is also deleted.

If you want to archive your photos to a cloud service - therefore releasing both local and iCloud storage - you need to use another Cloud storage provider - such as Google (Google Drive) or Microsoft OneDrive.

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