How can I make my iPhone automatically delete photos backed up on iCloud on my iPhone?

Hi

The following support articles offer Apple's advice for managing storage space on your iPhone:

• About storage on your device and in iCloud - Apple Support
• Check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

Options for managing and freeing up storage space on your iPhone include:

Photos:

You may also find these resources helpful:

• Taking and Managing Photos - Official Apple Support
• Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support

Music:

• Get your music collection on all of your devices - Apple Support
• Subscribe to iTunes Match - Apple Support

Apps:

• Delete unwanted apps: http://help.apple.com/iphone/10/#/iph248b543ca

Milk Jar wrote:

I would like to know how to automatically have my iPhone delete photos that are already backed up onto iCloud from my iPhone, to clear up storage. I have already used up almost all 128 GB that came with my iPhone, and don't want to maually delete every photo.

There is no automatic way, you manually the delete the photos.

The first question is do you mean "backed up onto iCloud" or "synced using iCloud Photos?" If you mean backed up, the photos are in a backup of the complete phone. The only way to recover them is to restore a backup to the phone, which will overwrite everything on the phone. Not just photos.

If you are syncing photos with iCloud (Settings/iCloud, turn on Photos) you cannot delete photos from the iPhone without also deleting the copy in iCloud and copies on any other device synced to iCloud Photos.