landers_tx Author

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Setting up new iPhone

i got a new phone but when I restored from old phone, it put all the photos from the cloud to the new phone and of course using all the storage on new device. Old device storage use is 2GB on Photos and new one over 45GB and stopped syncing because run out of space.

Posted on Aug 25, 2020 6:11 AM

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Aug 25, 2020 7:49 AM in response to landers_tx

That means you have a lot of photos and videos. Maybe you have duplicates that you can remove?

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Aug 25, 2020 6:12 AM in response to landers_tx

Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos.
Turn on iCloud Photos.
Select Optimize iPhone Storage to save space on your device.

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Aug 25, 2020 7:20 AM in response to landers_tx

Hi, thanks!

so... that option was selected already.

please see the attached pictures with old phone and new phone

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