how do i keep my photos on my Mac but delete from my Iphone to clear storage?
my icloud says i'm at the max storage. I want to delete the photos from my Iphone but i want them to stay on my Mac book
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 16
my icloud says i'm at the max storage. I want to delete the photos from my Iphone but i want them to stay on my Mac book
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 16
Consider to use two different Photos Library on your Mac: On a Mac you can have as many Photos Libraries as you want, and you can easily switch between them. Only one of them can be your System Photos Library and sync with iCloud Photos. Create additional photo libraries in Photos on Mac – Apple Support (AU)
When I started to use iCloud Photos I set up two Photos Libraries on my Mac:
To set this up, do not disable iCloud Photos at all. You will want to keep your devices syncing to transfer new photos and the adjustments and metadata between your devices. You just want to weed out your iCloud Photos Library.
To get started with archiving your old photos on your Mac, make sure, that all original photos and videos have been downloaded to your Mac. Otherwise the library on your Mac will be incomplete.
An added bonus of keeping the iCloud Photos Library small and focussed on only our most important photos is, that it will be much easier to work with it. Photos will be faster after a system upgrade, when the library needs to be scanned again. The albums will be smaller and easier to navigate, it will be much faster to find the important photos we are looking for, particularly on a small display like the iPhone display. And when we want to show our photos to someone, there will only be masterpieces in the library. It is much more impressive to show just ten perfect photos than having to browse 200 photos to find them among all the redundant photos.
Consider to use two different Photos Library on your Mac: On a Mac you can have as many Photos Libraries as you want, and you can easily switch between them. Only one of them can be your System Photos Library and sync with iCloud Photos. Create additional photo libraries in Photos on Mac – Apple Support (AU)
When I started to use iCloud Photos I set up two Photos Libraries on my Mac:
To set this up, do not disable iCloud Photos at all. You will want to keep your devices syncing to transfer new photos and the adjustments and metadata between your devices. You just want to weed out your iCloud Photos Library.
To get started with archiving your old photos on your Mac, make sure, that all original photos and videos have been downloaded to your Mac. Otherwise the library on your Mac will be incomplete.
An added bonus of keeping the iCloud Photos Library small and focussed on only our most important photos is, that it will be much easier to work with it. Photos will be faster after a system upgrade, when the library needs to be scanned again. The albums will be smaller and easier to navigate, it will be much faster to find the important photos we are looking for, particularly on a small display like the iPhone display. And when we want to show our photos to someone, there will only be masterpieces in the library. It is much more impressive to show just ten perfect photos than having to browse 200 photos to find them among all the redundant photos.
if you want the photos removed from iCloud, there is no need to remove them from the iPhone
you need to switch off sync to iCloud for photos on your iPhone AND on your Mac
When you switch it off, you are asked to keep them on the device or on iCloud, read it exactly and remove them from iCloud only
I turned this recommendation into a new user tip: How to keep the iCloud Photos library small and archive other photos locally on a Mac… - Apple Community
Now that we no longer have My Photo Stream, there is no other easy way to sync photos from our Mac to the mobile devices, and iCloud Photos is all that is left for a wireless mass transfer of the new photos from the Mac to the iPhone or iPad. Using the Finder for syncing will just transfer low resolution versions to the mobile devices, that cannot even be deleted directly from the device, and it is just one-way.
how do i keep my photos on my Mac but delete from my Iphone to clear storage?