iCloud photos archive
I need to make space on my iphone. I have read that I can simply turn of the iCloud feature, in order to then delete the videos/photos from camera roll *on the iphone only*, while the images remain in my iCloud. Great.
My concern is, what happens when I then turn iCloud photos on again on the phone?
I'm concerned that this would mean the 'iphone device only' deletions would then also synchronize/propagate over to my cloud storage, hence deleting them forever...
(I would like to keep the iCloud as my long term/permanent archive of all my images from all my devices, is there some 'do not synchronize deletions to iCloud' setting or similar I can use? Other suggestions?
I simply cannot risk losing any of my saved old images, but I need to clear up phone space.
iPhone SE (3rd generation)