How does sync affect storage on iPhone and iCloud?

So if I’ve got an iPhone with 256GB storage and 1TB iCloud storage, and my phone storage gets full I will still need to delete stuff on my phone, what happens during sync does it then delete on both the phone and iCloud? And does this mean even though I Pay for 1TB of storage I’ll only ever have access to 256GB because my phone can only have content equivalent to 256GB?


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Posted on Jun 13, 2024 8:57 PM

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Posted on Jun 14, 2024 3:58 AM

If you sync with iCloud anything that you delete on device will also delete from the cloud. You can optimize photos to help reduce the size of files on device (settings > photos) and sync messages to iCloud to offload attachments. Both May help to free up device space

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