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fergus28 Author

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How to keep my backup photos on iCloud without being deleted when I only delete photos on my iPhone device?

I now have all my photos backuped on iCloud, both as a backup and for all individual photos. My other iPhone also on the same iCloud account is now seeing those photos too.

It seems that if I take photos on my iPhone, that photo will stay on my device as well as auto-sync to my iCloud. How about deleting a photo or a bunch of it on my device so to save space? Do my back up photos on iCloud be deleted as well? How can I avoid this to save my backup photos?

Thanks a lot!

iPhone 11, iOS 15

Posted on Mar 26, 2022 4:42 AM

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muguy

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Posted on Mar 26, 2022 4:52 AM

iCloud is a sync service, not a backup not you delete an item on any connected device it will delete everywhere.

you can save device storage by optimizing photos Settings > Photos

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