I want to transfer everything from my old phone to my new phone except my photos. I do not want to use up the memory in my new phone with my old photos. I want the photos in my new phone to still continue to go to our cloud. How do I do this?
iPhone 14 Pro Max
You can’t. iCloud is a syncing service, not an archiving service. Anything in iCloud will also be on your phone, and anything deleted from your phone will also be deleted from iCloud. What you can do is enable optimized storage, which will save lower resolution, smaller photos on your phone, and full resolution in iCloud. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud/iCloud Photos and tap Optimize iPhone Storage.
You can’t. iCloud is a syncing service, not an archiving service. Anything in iCloud will also be on your phone, and anything deleted from your phone will also be deleted from iCloud. What you can do is enable optimized storage, which will save lower resolution, smaller photos on your phone, and full resolution in iCloud. Go to Settings/[your name]/iCloud/iCloud Photos and tap Optimize iPhone Storage.
Thank you very much for your help!
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