I recently bought more iCloud storage with the intention to free up space on my phone. When I did, however, it didn’t free up any space. I set it to optimize storage, which helped a little, but I still only have 2-3 gigabytes left. Is there a way for me to keep my photos on my phone without them taking up space on the physical storage?
iPhone XR, iOS 14
iCloud doesn’t move the photos to the cloud, it basically only ensures that they are synced across all of your devices. The optimize setting leaves a smaller file version of the photo on your device until you go to view it, but iCloud doesn’t offer a way to only store the photos on the cloud.
There are some other photo backup apps that keep them entirely in the cloud, though.
iCloud doesn’t move the photos to the cloud, it basically only ensures that they are synced across all of your devices. The optimize setting leaves a smaller file version of the photo on your device until you go to view it, but iCloud doesn’t offer a way to only store the photos on the cloud.
There are some other photo backup apps that keep them entirely in the cloud, though.
No Storage Left!!!
