Does ICloud delete photos when you delete photos on your phone?
I have recently been backing up and deleting photos from my phone onto a hard drive. I also have iCloud as an extra layer of backup. Having just logged onto my iCloud it looks like it only saves photos which are currently saved on my phone. Ie: since I deleted all old photos to make space abs backed them up onto a hard drive, iCloud no longer has any of my photos.
Is this how iCloud works? Does it not keep all photos (regardless of whether they have been deleted from your phone)?
iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14