Howdy. I am using iOS 9.2. I want to archive photos on my camera roll then delete them off my phone to create more memory space. I want to do so w/o the use of a computer. If I click as seen below to upload my photos to iCloud from my phone:
1) Will this move all photos on my camera roll to my iCloud account?
2) Can I delete photos on my camera roll on my phone and still access them using the Photo app on my phone from my iCloud account?
Thanks for your help.
That will transfer your photos to iCloud, but they will remain synced to your iPhone. So if you delete them from the iPhone they will also be removed from iCloud. You can choose an Optimize mode, where lower resolution versions of the photos will appear on your computer.
For what you describe, that is, having your photos only in a cloud environment that you can view on the phone, you need a different solution. One option is Google Picasa with a companion app to upload the photos to PicasaWeb. Shutterfly has a similar capability. You can also use Dropbox, box.com, and an intriguing new entry to the cloud world, upthere.com. I've been using upthere for a couple of months. It comes with a camera app that uploads new photos directly to your upthere.com account, but can also upload existing photos. It also provides the same services for music if you want to free up space occupied by your music library. And it's currently free.
That will transfer your photos to iCloud, but they will remain synced to your iPhone. So if you delete them from the iPhone they will also be removed from iCloud. You can choose an Optimize mode, where lower resolution versions of the photos will appear on your computer.
For what you describe, that is, having your photos only in a cloud environment that you can view on the phone, you need a different solution. One option is Google Picasa with a companion app to upload the photos to PicasaWeb. Shutterfly has a similar capability. You can also use Dropbox, box.com, and an intriguing new entry to the cloud world, upthere.com. I've been using upthere for a couple of months. It comes with a camera app that uploads new photos directly to your upthere.com account, but can also upload existing photos. It also provides the same services for music if you want to free up space occupied by your music library. And it's currently free.
Yes it will upload your photos to iCloud.
Unfortunately if you delete the photos from the phone it will also remove them from icloud.
May I suggest if you have a gmail account , you can download google photos.
It provides unlimited photo backup.
Once all the photos are finished uploading you can delete them from the phone. you can redownload your photos from the app when you need them. Also you can access them on the web at Giogle photos.
You need to read up on iCloud photo library
It is a synchronous backup of your phone photo collection that makes the images available on other devices
The total free space is 5 GB
Deleting a picture from your phone will reflect that in the collection on the photo library
You may want to look at something like OneDrive which gives you 15 GB of free space and an app that can upload automatically from your phone if you choose
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