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Photos in iphone larger than photos in icloud

Ok so I uploaded all of my photos on icloud, and it says 100Gb

I downloaded the photos on icloud back to my iphone, now my iphone is full because photos takes over 200Gb of the storage in my iphonr

Does anyone know what is going on?

Posted on Oct 21, 2020 7:18 PM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2020 4:01 PM

When you uploaded to iCloud, the photos in their original state were kept in iCloud whilst a smaller footprint of the photos were also kept on your device providing you were using the Optimize Phone Storage feature (Settings > Name > iCloud > Photos).


When you assumedly turned off iCloud Photos and downloaded the photos back to the device, it will be kept on the device in their original state, i.e. 200GB.

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Oct 22, 2020 4:01 PM in response to Longnguye

When you uploaded to iCloud, the photos in their original state were kept in iCloud whilst a smaller footprint of the photos were also kept on your device providing you were using the Optimize Phone Storage feature (Settings > Name > iCloud > Photos).


When you assumedly turned off iCloud Photos and downloaded the photos back to the device, it will be kept on the device in their original state, i.e. 200GB.

Photos in iphone larger than photos in icloud

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