can never back up to Computer since icloud have too many photo?

Hey there,

Yesterday night when try to back up my iphone to my computer (iphone has iCloud photo enabled), but then this morning I woke up and found my iphone nearly not-usable due to too limited space.When I open photo it says "restoring from iCloud".

I suppose back up to computer will make iphone download the photos, videos from iCloud so they can all be back up to computer. However the reason to use iCloud is because the photo/ videos size are too large for my iPhone. So since I can't download all the photos from iCloud to my phone, I can never back up to computer?



Posted on Oct 15, 2023 12:32 AM

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Oct 15, 2023 8:01 PM in response to rockman44413

rockman44413 Said:

"can never back up to Computer since icloud have too many photo?: I suppose back up to computer will make iphone download the photos, videos from iCloud so they can all be back up to computer. However the reason to use iCloud is because the photo/ videos size are too large for my iPhone. So since I can't download all the photos from iCloud to my phone, I can never back up to computer?"

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