Is there any way to delete photos/videos from my iPhone without deleting them from my iCloud? I'm trying to free up device space without losing the pictures/videos on the cloud.
iPhone 6, iOS 9.3.2
colleenjc44 wrote:
Agreed!
You can agree all day long, but that is not how iCloud Photo Library works. If you want to store your photos someplace where they are not on your device, then you can import them to your computer, or you can use a service like Dropbox or Flikr which are designed to store and archive photos.
iCloud is designed to share all photos across all devices that are using iCloud Photo Library. So, new photos get added to the Library immediately, edited photos can be seen in their edited format on all devices once the editing is complete, and deleting photos results in those photos getting deleted from the Library and reflected across all devices. That is how it works, and what it is intended to do. If you are not interested in sharing and automatically syncing all of your photos across all devices, and having access to the entire Library from anywhere, then iCloud Photo Library is not for you.
Find another solution that meets your specific needs.
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You can only sync on iCloud -- not save photos in a safe secured space and delete them elsewhere.
What on earth are you going on about, do you not understand what a synchronization service actually does, if you have a way of doing it differently feel free to tell us how.
As a followup to Gail's post, I just came across this excellent article today: A Beginner’s Guide to Backing Up Photos - The New York Times
Delete Photos Just Off iPhone, Not iCloud
