Delete Photos From iCloud But Keep On iPhone

Hi All,

Long story short I like to annually backup my iPhone photos once a year to external hard drives (or whenever needed). What I noticed this time around was that although I had maxed out my 50GB iCloud storage (photos, files & apps etc), I still had plenty of storage on my iPhone (its 256GB) so I am wondering if its possible to download and delete all photos from iCloud - keep them on your iPhone - and not having them re-uploaded to iCloud when the phone syncs again?

However I would like new photos taken to be uploaded to iCloud until I do my backup to external hard drives again. Repeat repeat repeat etc.

• How to delete photos from iCloud but keep on iPhone as iCloud Storage is much smaller than the phone capacity but keep newer photos backing up to iCloud
  • So phone would have more photos on it than iCloud but iCloud would not be trying to sync all the photos on the phone - just new photos
• Can you un-sync specific photos (old & already backed up photos)? But keep the newly taken photos backing up to iCloud and repeat this process in the future?

No major issue if this isn't possible but I guess the iCloud storage space kind of dictates what's on my iPhone (regardless if my iPhone had unlimited storage as I'm restricted to 50GB in iCloud if I want to ensure my stuff is backed up).

I'll just do a full backup and delete when the iCloud is full every time etc.

I hope the above makes sense.

TIA for any answers on this.

Jon