iCloud photos archive

ttttttttttttttttttttttttsas wrote:

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.

Sorry that is not how syncing to icloud works, you might what to read this thoroughly before enabling it Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support

Also look up google photos.