I have iCloud storage for all my apple devices but I am losing space on my iPhone due to photos that also should be stored in the iCloud. I have uploaded them also to my iPhoto library on my Mac too. But to free up space on my phone, how do I know which photos to remove to do this? i.e which ones are not just in the iCloud?
Store your photos and videos in iCloud
Your photos and videos are stored on your device in their original, high-resolution version. This means that they use a lot of space on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With iCloud Photo Library, you can make more space available on your device and have your entire collection, everywhere you go.
Get started with iCloud Photo Library:
- Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iCloud > Photos.
- Turn on iCloud Photo Library.
- Select Optimize iPhone Storage to make more space on your device.
With Optimize Storage, smaller, space-saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original, full-resolution versions are stored in iCloud. And as long as you have enough space in iCloud, you can store as many photos and videos as you want.
To cut to the chase, iCloud is a syncing service, not an archiving service. You cannot delete photos from your phone and leave them in iCloud. When you delete from the phone your photos will also be deleted from iCloud and from all devices that sync to iCloud Photos.
If you want to delete photos from your phone yet keep them available you need an archiving service such as Amazon Photos, Google Photos, Dropbox, box.com, upthere.com, etc.
they should be exactly the same.
How can you tell which Photos are taking up space?
