So I upgraded my ICloud storage. Moved everything on the phone to there. Why is my phone still saying my storage is full when it’s all in the cloud? I mean it’s not even showing in my photo gallery anymore but yet still saying photos have 56G being used.
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iPhone 13, iOS 17
I would like you to realize and know one important thing and that is that there is NOTHING that you can do to increase the physical storage capacity of your iPhone. Your iPhone's storage capacity will forever remain the same as the day you bought it.
You have purchased ➔ iCloud Storage from Apple where you create and save your iPhone backups and synch (Not Store) your Messages, Photos, Contacts, Calendars, Notes and Reminders. Note that iCloud Storage is NOT an extension of storage capacity of your iPhone. Just wanted you to know some facts.
Having said that, you can choose to Optimize Storage on your iPhone for all the Photos. What this action will do is store your original quality photos on iCloud and a small size photo on your iPhone. This takes up less space on your iPhone while maintaining the actual size on iCloud. This will free up space on your iPhone while making good use of iCloud. If you would like to try this then open Settings ➔ Photos ➔ Optimize iPhone Storage : Ensure that this option is chosen and has a checkmark on it.
Axel F.
I would like you to realize and know one important thing and that is that there is NOTHING that you can do to increase the physical storage capacity of your iPhone. Your iPhone's storage capacity will forever remain the same as the day you bought it.
You have purchased ➔ iCloud Storage from Apple where you create and save your iPhone backups and synch (Not Store) your Messages, Photos, Contacts, Calendars, Notes and Reminders. Note that iCloud Storage is NOT an extension of storage capacity of your iPhone. Just wanted you to know some facts.
Having said that, you can choose to Optimize Storage on your iPhone for all the Photos. What this action will do is store your original quality photos on iCloud and a small size photo on your iPhone. This takes up less space on your iPhone while maintaining the actual size on iCloud. This will free up space on your iPhone while making good use of iCloud. If you would like to try this then open Settings ➔ Photos ➔ Optimize iPhone Storage : Ensure that this option is chosen and has a checkmark on it.
Axel F.
Is the phone you're currently using the same Apple ID as iCloud? And if the phone and iCloud account are on the same Apple ID, when did you remove the photos from your phone? If within the last 30 days, they haven't been fully deleted yet, unless you opened the recently deleted folder and permanently deleted them there. And if they haven't been deleted from the recently deleted folder, they're really not deleted from your phone. But when they are fully deleted, guess what? They'll delete in iCloud. Because as I mentioned, iCloud is a syncing service, whether you want to believe me or not.
If you don't need the photos, I suppose you can do that. Did you open the Photo app and look in the Recently Deleted folder?
Open the Settings App
Tap General
Tap iPhone Storage
What does it show for Photos?
Okay I get that, but my photos are on the iCloud and not even showing on my phone so why does it still say they are on my phone when they are not.
Also thank you on that I upgraded storage for nothing then.
So do I need to get on the cloud and just delete from there, I do do the optimize option already: I did have 15000 photos it only shows 600 and it says my iPhone storage is full. I have deleted numerous photos but yet it still says it’s full. This is the issue I want to know how to fix.
The phone I am using now has the same ID and icloud. But the 15000 photos are not showing on my phone so I can’t delete them to get space/ so I am guessing I need to get on the ICloud to delete to make room?
I don’t believe this, because I have photos in the cloud that aren’t on my iPhone. I also have an old iPhone user name and I go on that still for photos and I no longer have the phone or use the ID.
I did space doing that one, thank you 😊 that open some storage
You're welcome.
If the photos are in iCloud, they should also be on your iPhone. iCloud is not a archive, where you can move things to the cloud and take them off your phone. If you delete a photo from your iPhone, they will delete from iCloud. If you delete a photo in iCloud, they will delete from your iPhone. iCloud is a syncing service.
Why is my iPhone storage full despite upgrading iCloud?
