My old iPad is getting full so I thought moving thousands of photos to the iCloud Drive would make room and lower the used/free ratio in the tablet. Now it seems worse as the available storage in the tablet has substantially decreased and shows the fat iCloud Drive as part of it. What kind of cloud is this that keeps using the physical memory of the device? Maybe I should move all my photos to the external drive on the Mac, like its 1995!
iPad Pro (1st generation)
iCloud is not external storage that operates as an extension of your device; it is a synchronization service. You can, if you wish, optimize photo storage (settings > photos) to reduce the size of the photo library
iCloud is not external storage that operates as an extension of your device; it is a synchronization service. You can, if you wish, optimize photo storage (settings > photos) to reduce the size of the photo library
If you try to sync more data than space, it will not work. If your photos library is larger than your free space, no additional items will sync. If you optimize storage, you’ll find the photos library size decreases markedly (mine is about 10 percent of the library size on my Mac).
So, does that mean that, once iCloud goes beyond the 64 Gb of my old tablet´s memory it would make my device colapse for no memory left?
Files, Photos and iCloud Drive
