I recently upgraded to a phone with bigger storage, so I want to move all my photos from iCloud to my phone's storage, so that way I can stop paying the 50 GB iCloud plan. How can I move my photos from iCloud to my phone storage without losing any in the process?
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15
Enable iCloud Photos on your new phone (Settings > Photos). Do not turn on optimize photos so that full-resolution photos download.
Once all of your pictures download, turn off iCloud Photos. Photos will then be on your device and you can safely downgrade your iCloud storage.
Enable iCloud Photos on your new phone (Settings > Photos). Do not turn on optimize photos so that full-resolution photos download.
Once all of your pictures download, turn off iCloud Photos. Photos will then be on your device and you can safely downgrade your iCloud storage.
How can I know it’s done downloading them?
The iCloud status is displayed at the bottom of the library view in photos.
Thank you. I did this and turned off iCloud and everything is fine. Thing is, it still shows about 10 GB in my iCloud storage under photos even though I turned iCloud off. How do I get rid of those?
It will as those photos are still in the cloud. You can now delete those photos at iCloud.com/photos.
Move photos from iCloud to phone storage?
