Hello,
I was wondering, if I delete a photo on my Iphone it will disappear also on my Icloud and viceversa? Cause till now I always did a double cleaning, first on Iphone and then on cloud, and now after downloading photo from Icloud on my pc I'd like to have some specific photo only on my phone and not even on cloud, is it possible?
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 16
If you have iCloud Photos turned on in a device (e.g., iPhone) all photos on that device are synced with iCloud. There is not an option to have a specific photo still be on the iPhone but not be on iCloud.
iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See the following Apple article for more information: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support
Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.
Another way that photos may be on iCloud (if you don’t have iCloud Photos turned on) is via a backup of an iOS device. The only thing you can do with a backup is use it to restore a device or set up a new device. The contents of backups are not viewable at iCloud.com and if you delete a photo from a device it will not be included in future backups and will be lost.
If you have iCloud Photos turned on in a device (e.g., iPhone) all photos on that device are synced with iCloud. There is not an option to have a specific photo still be on the iPhone but not be on iCloud.
iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See the following Apple article for more information: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support
Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.
Another way that photos may be on iCloud (if you don’t have iCloud Photos turned on) is via a backup of an iOS device. The only thing you can do with a backup is use it to restore a device or set up a new device. The contents of backups are not viewable at iCloud.com and if you delete a photo from a device it will not be included in future backups and will be lost.
Yes. If you delete them on the phone they should automatically delete on iCloud (and on any other device where iCloud Photos is turned on).
Thanks FoxFifth and related to your answer - One surprise to me when going into iCloud Photos (for housekeeping) and downloading originals to a HD, (to reduce iCloud) storage, was that the downloaded images did not show the original date (EXIF data) but the download date. Probably obvious to most members.
Also if an image was taken as a 'live' HEIC then this was split into two files - one a video, the other the HEIC (lower res than of a plain old static HEIC). That be useful for others to know unless I was doing it the wrong way, I could not see a way of getting the image with the original EXIF.
From now on I'll download the next lot of images into folders with the original M/Y date to know when they were taken.
PS. Storage on iCloud was running out as I did turn off Photos on the iOS devices but 'back up' was left 'ON'. Unfortunately 'optimize' may have been 'ON', so that images in one device were a lower res than those on iCloud. Hence the need to download them and not just back up the device to a lightning drive.
oh thank you so much!! so it’s not necessary delete the photo twice, I can do it just on my phone and then they will disappear also on cloud?
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