Storing pictures on icloud but not iphone

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Storing pictures on icloud but not iphone

I have a bunch of old family photos that I want to keep in cloud storage as opposed to on my PC or thumb drive. Can I store them in icloud by uploading them from my PC without all of them also getting posted to my iphone?

Also - I'm thinking about switching to a Mac very soon. Same question...can I have separate storage areas in icloud for things like old photos that you don't want on your iphone? I don't need 548 pictures of great grandma on my iphone!

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iPhone 6s, iOS 11.4.1

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 8:02 AM

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ChrisJ4203

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Oct 3, 2018 8:16 AM in response to tf210

iCloud is not a storage service, it is a syncing service. If you upload photos to iCloud, they must remain on your device. If you delete them from your device, it will delete them from iCloud as well. You can put them on an external drive, or if you don't want them on the computer any longer, archive them to a CD or DVD.

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Oct 3, 2018 8:16 AM in response to tf210

You cannot do that via iCloud Photo Library. However, if you want to copy them to iCloud Drive, then you would be able to store them in iCloud without downloading them to your iOS device. They would be stored on your PC or Mac in your iCloud Drive folder, however.

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