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How should my settings be to upload my pictures from my iPhone and iPad to iCloud without also downloading everything in iCloud to my phone. I pay to have storage in iCloud so I don't need my units to store all my pictures.
I use iCloud to also store pictures taken with my digital camera and have several thousand pictures. Having all these pictures synced to ALL my units is extremely unnecessary...
MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
You can' t do that. In order to save space on your mobile devices (and indeed your Mac if you wish to do so) turn on optimisation for photos on these devices (settings > photos & camera > optimise storage on your mobile device and Photo preferences > optimise storage on your Mac)
Optimisation is dynamic, it reduces the resolution of your photos as and when needed, so you may not notice it occurring at first. However when it is needed, it is very effective and users have reported libraries being optimised to much less than 10% of their original size in some cases. My own library is about 9% of its original size on my phone.
That is just stupid...
So I have the options of syncing ALL of my pictures or none of them? Must have been a real genius who came up with that...
I don't want all my pictures on all my units, no matter if they are compressed or not, but I DO want all of my pictures in iCloud. I really hope there comes a fix to this or it might just be the thing that pushes me away from Apple...
You have the option of using another service for your photos if that's what you want. I believe Dropbox can do what you want.
No it can't...
And anyway I use Apple products for a reason. That reason is not that I want to use a myriad of other services...
OK, let's rephrase that, I know Dropbox can do that.
Apple don't (thankfully) bloat their software with features they consider few people want. Whether they do or don't in any numbers I couldn't say for sure, but suspect Apple are right, what good would they be to most people if they weren't on your device.
No, it can't. I have tried...
I know a lot of people who wants this possibility. Especially people with the 16GB versions of iPhone...
And how hard can it be to make it a choice in the software to upload, but not download pictures? Hardly "bloating" anything...
And I've used it, are you suggesting I imagined what it did.
You are entitled to your opinions, I don't think you are right but there we go, either way Apple don't offer what you want, you'll have to decide what you want to do about it.
If you have any suggestions that you think might enhance the Photos Application you can send Apple your feedback here
Upload pictures to iCloud without downloading iCloud content
