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When I delete a photo from my phone or macbook does it stay in iCloud?

Hi,


Love the new photo's function! Even so I have a question:


I don't want all my photo's with me all the time and also not on my macbook. I just need them saved in the iCloud. When I delete photo's from my devices will they still be saved in iCloud? Was looking online but I could not find the answer. Hopefully someone here knows 🙂


Thanks!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 6:39 AM

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Posted on Apr 13, 2015 7:00 AM

I don't want all my photo's with me all the time and also not on my macbook. I just need them saved in the iCloud. When I delete photo's from my devices will they still be saved in iCloud? Was looking online but I could not find the answer. Hopefully someone here knows

If you delete a photo from a device that syncs with iCloud Photo Library, it will be deleted from the iCloud Photo Library.

To save space on the device enable "Optimize Storage" in the Photos&Camera settings. Then only optimised versions will be stored on the device and not the full resolution originals.

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Apr 13, 2015 7:00 AM in response to SiemJ

I don't want all my photo's with me all the time and also not on my macbook. I just need them saved in the iCloud. When I delete photo's from my devices will they still be saved in iCloud? Was looking online but I could not find the answer. Hopefully someone here knows

If you delete a photo from a device that syncs with iCloud Photo Library, it will be deleted from the iCloud Photo Library.

To save space on the device enable "Optimize Storage" in the Photos&Camera settings. Then only optimised versions will be stored on the device and not the full resolution originals.

When I delete a photo from my phone or macbook does it stay in iCloud?

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