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I turned off my Icloud backup because I was out of storage and deleted the photos off my phone, if I go back to wanting to backup my phone are the photos on my phone going to erase the stored photos in the cloud? I don't want to lose my stored photo

I turned off my Icloud backup because I was out of storage and deleted the photos off my phone, if I go back to wanting to backup my phone are the photos on my phone going to erase the stored photos in the cloud? I don't want to lose my stored photos in the cloud?

Posted on Jun 6, 2023 7:41 AM

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Posted on Jun 6, 2023 8:14 AM

If you sync with iCloud, your photos were deleted when you deleted them from your device. If you did not use iCloud Photos but just backed up, your backup will overwrite the old backup.

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I turned off my Icloud backup because I was out of storage and deleted the photos off my phone, if I go back to wanting to backup my phone are the photos on my phone going to erase the stored photos in the cloud? I don't want to lose my stored photo

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