why did my phone transfer photos to new phone through icloud
Hello. I just purchased an Iphone 13 Pro as an upgrade from my Iphone 12 Pro. My Iphone 12 was working fine but my main reasoning for purchasing a new $1,200 Iphone was to start fresh with no photos while keeping the old ones on my old phone. I have 45,000 photos... I specifically did an Icloud restore so that I could deselect the "photos" section and transfer everything other than my photos. Now I have just restored the new phone and I still have 45,000 photos... I understand that now if I delete the photos off my new phone they will be deleted off of my old phone too. This is totally unacceptable. Last time I tried deleting thousands of photos off of my Iphone 6s it killed the phone and never worked again. Why did this happen and how do I fix it? At this point I feel like I have thrown $1,200 down the drain for nothing. Thanks for any help...