How to exclude iPhone Photo Library from local backup to MacBook?
Short story:
Any way to exclude photo library on iPhone from local backups?
While they are synced with iCloud Photos there's just no need to duplicate the back up! All photos are already in the cloud!
They just consume local space at local backup location @ my MacBook!
Long story:
Connecting iPhone to iCloud Photos flooded my Phone free space with pics from cloud library. And I can't make a local back up anymore! MacBook 256GB i was making local backups onto now says "Not enough freespace".
The thing is that my iCloud Photo library is about 800GB (while iPhone and MacBook have 256GB and that's more than enough.
And - yes - "Optimized iPhone storage IS turned on. And even "smaller, deviced-sized" pics flooded memory of my iPhone almost to the cap.
So. GUYS, ANY WAY TO EXCLUDE IPHONE PHOTO LOCAL CONTENT FROM LOCAL BACKUPS?
There's just no need in it! It's already backed up to Photos iCloud! While on the other hand I can't make local backups to my 256GB MacBook anymore due to the lack of space.
iPhone 14 Pro