What is the point of iCloud?
I was about to upload my photos to iCloud and then found out if you delete them off your phone then they will also be deleted from the cloud. I don't understand what the benefit of using the cloud is. i wanted to use it initially for the purpose of having extra storage on my phone, but that won't happen if i still have to keep the same picture that i have in iCloud on my phone as well. There is the optimize selection where there is a original on the iCloud and a lesser version of the picture kept on your phone, but i wonder how much less space it occupies on your iPhone. So i'm not sure what benefits there are of using the iCloud.
would love to hear anyone say what they may or may not like about this. pros and cons
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.1