Understanding iCloud Photos and iPhone Storage [How Synching Works]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- Should you delete photos from your iPhone to reclaim storage space and, if so, how does that affect photo syncing via iCloud Photos?
The short answer is: Probably not! Be careful when deleting photos or videos on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or iCloud web app if you use iCloud Photo Library (iCloud Photos). Doing so may permanently remove the deleted photos from all devices.
Plus, it is not even necessary in most cases as both iOS and macOS can automatically manage storage space allocated to photos.
Until recently, the base models of Apple’s iOS devices only had 16GB of memory. At the same time, the iPhone became our go-to camera for taking photos and recording videos. As a result, many users ran out of available storage space and thus had to regularly delete or transfer photos and videos.
Then Apple introduced iCloud Photo Library, which keeps all of your photographic memories in sync across all your devices. That’s great because a photo or video you took on your iPhone would automatically appear on your iPad or Mac. Even edits and changes would synchronize seamlessly. Gone are the days of manual synchronization!
In this video, I summarize the main points from my blog post that talks about why you should likely not delete photos or videos from your iOS device to free up storage space.
If you have any questions about how to manage storage and your photos, leave me a comment and I'll reply asap.
#iCloudStorage #iPhoneStorage #Tech
[Chapter Markers]
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - How Apple Manages Storage
1:50 - How Apple Syncs Your Data
3:58 - Why You Shouldn’t Remove Photos to Free Up Space
7:26 - My iPhone Storage Recommendation
8:16 - Other Apps That Use Up Space
9:13 - The Key Takeaway
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Now I understand
!! Thank you, that is very clearly explained.
You’re welcome!
Amazing explanation, Thank you!
You’re most welcome!
After having an iPhone for years, I FINALLY understand how storage and iCloud works. This was a great explanation - thank you!
Great to hear!
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Wow you where amazing in explaining with no confusion. Thank you so very much for taking your time to make this video.
Glad it was helpful!
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True
True. I still don’t understand. I’m just going to save my photos on a flash drive. Apple just wants to stay in my pockets by charging me monthly for space that doesn’t accumulate if I’m paying every month.
Great, fully in detail explanation. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Best , most understandable explanation I have ever heard ! Thank you !!!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome review of this very frustrating topic. Thanks for taking the time. It was very helpful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally I found a really useful video about Icloud. Thanks man
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Thanks Musa, I really appreciate the feedback!
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Appreciate your explanation on iCloud storage--thank you!
My pleasure!
Very well Explained Michael. Very helpful Thank you !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent Video thankyou so much! I ended up deleting almost 40GB of data without even touching my photos. I always thought photos were the issue but thanks to you i now know they are not! Thanks again
Great to hear!
The 11 minutes and 58 seconds were all worth it! I watched tens of videos but still didn’t get the hang of it, but you explained it in the best way and now ik what I’m doing😂
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!
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Thank you Michael. I think I am getting it ... you have explained so well. I appreciate your videos.
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This was thorough and so clearly explained. Thank you so much for helping me understand how iCloud photos works.
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Thank you too!
Good video on a very confusing subject. (iCloud and photos).
Thanks David, I appreciate the feedback!
Excellent explanation Thanks
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Great video!!!
Thanks, I appreciate your feedback!
Thank you for clarifying what I suspected. It is mind boggling to me that Apple does not offer the option of removing from device but not Icloud but you are awesome for taking the time to explain clearly!
Glad to help!
Excellent tutorial! Thank you!
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Good job explaining without getting to high tech..Thanks
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Most simplified icloud video on TH-cam even in 2022 thank you so much
Thanks, Junaid, I appreciate the feedback!
Great explanation. Or, you could buy an external hard drive, back your photos up to that, avoid yet a mother monthly subscription payment and be responsible and in control of your own photos. But it was a very good explanation of how your photos are stored.
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WOW great video, and great post! I’ve read many posts, your post helped me a lot to understand how to better manage my storage.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback and I’m glad my post has helped!
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Ah now i understand what optimized mean on ios, no more worry about storage on my phone even my phone still have lots of space, thanks for the explanation, best!
Glad I could help!
Excellent!
Thanks for the feedback, Luiz!
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I’m not sure if this was mentioned in the video but my greatest problem is the amount of GB my phone use for photos even though I have 2TB icloud. It seems that the GB in my ipad is much lower than my phone. Please help me solve this problem. Have to delete apps in order to store photos and sync them on icloud
Thank you for the clear explanation about the relationship between iCloud storage of photos and my devices. Best answer to my doubts so far.
Great to hear!
@michael kummer if I have enough iCloud storage but I want to upload the original (instead of “optimizing”) will it still free up space on my phone to use iCloud storage? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE! Very great explanation!
Hey Naimah! The Optimize vs. Originals only determines how images are stored on your iPhone/Mac (full resolution vs. optimized). But regardless of that setting, iCloud will always store the full resolution images. Makes sense?
@@MichaelKummer absolutely! Thank you. I purchased 2tb of space but because I have over 30k photos on my phone they aren’t all updating. Lesson learned. Purchase storage, toggle synch and then click away!
This is a great video. I have a question if you could help me out. So I turned off my iCloud Photo Library thinking that removing my photos from my phone would help my storage problem. But it turns out the storage is still there but the videos and pics are off my phone. They are on my iCloud account when I log in on iCloud on my computers or safari but they’re not in my phone. So I turned back on my iCloud photo, figuring that I just get the pictures and videos back and patiently wait for them to be downloaded to google photos and then I can disable iCloud once and for all. My problem is that I don’t know how to get my iCloud photos back on my iphone and I’m afraid that if I hook my phone to my computer and it gives me an option to download the pictures, it will just take up more space. Now it’s in a mode of uploading whatever that wasn’t removed to iCloud. When I restart my phone it tells me “Updating paused for 14,211 items” and then it goes back to uploading the items that were not removed. I don’t know if I have to be patient for them to be update to be resumed so the photos can go back to my phone or if after this upload, then they are going to resume the update and be uploaded back on my phone. Can you help me out with this problem if possible? Please and thank you!
You just have to be patient and wait for the library to sync. I know it says “uploading” but it’s actually synchronizing! Just give it a few days, depending on your internet connection.
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Thank you so much for this extremely informative video. I had a few questions I was hoping you could help me with. My iCloud library has more photos than my iPhone library.
1. When I delete stuff from my phone, even though my iCloud photos backup is enabled, why doesn’t it delete those files from iCloud?
2. Alternatively, if I delete from iCloud, will it also delete from my phone?
3. Basically I want my iCloud and phone library to be the same (and changes in my phone device library to reflect in iCloud as well). How do I do this?
Thank you in advance :) hope you’re safe and well
Hi Pooja,
when you say "my iCloud Photos Backup is enabled," what do you mean? There is no such thing as a photo backup in iCloud. There is iCloud Photo Library and assuming it's turned on, it should keep everything in sync, including deletions.
If you just recently turned on iCloud Photo Library, it might still be synchronizing. If so, the Photos.app on your iPhone will tell you that.
2) Yes
3) All you need to do is turn iCloud Photo Library on and wait for your photos to sync. Depending on the size of your library and your internet connection, that might take a while.
Cheers,
Michael
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What if i selected the “Optimize photos” feature but the photos are still in my iPhone storage. Icloud shows that they’re in the cloud but they are still locally on my device. I recently switched from Android to IOS and used the Move To IOS app. Not sure if that helps.
Hi Luis,
iOS will ultimately remove them from your iPhone to make space for new photos. If you access older photos from your iPhone, iOS will download and temporarily store them locally again. All of that happens automatically and there is nothing you'll have to do.
If you are storing the full resolution photos on your Mac - isn’t the storage upgrade quite expensive or do you to connect an external hdd or ssd and allow iCloud Photo Library to sync with that?
I have a 2TB internal SSD in my iMac but recently moved my 1.xTB photo library to an external SSD to free up space.
Michael thanks a lot for your time in explanation :) I have one photo in Iphone and the same photo in iCloud. In my iPhone its 3.5 MB but in iCloud its 1 mb. Does iCloud compresses the photos when uploading from iPhone? Is it normal ?
Apple stores images in HEIC format which has a better compression ratio than JPG. That could explain the discrepancy.
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To explain the optimisation, I have 7030 photos and 274 videos and when using the “optimised storage” setting (thumb nail) I’m using approximately 9GB of storage on my device, but using approximately 52GB of iCloud storage. When I switch to “download and keep originals” setting I’m using 57GB of storage on my device and still 52GB of iCloud storage. Be aware it is your videos that take up most of the storage space.
To free up space by deleting unwanted photos you will not free up space for 30 days unless you further delete the deleted photos by going in to the recently deleted album and deleting the photos again.
Exactly right!
No, you can't replicate Google's behavior - that's not how iCloud Photo Library works. You either sync everything or you sync nothing. You cannot partially sync or download.
good article on apple storage. Do you have a solution to the problem that my iphone also backs up to my google photo app on my iphone and if i try and delete from my google photo app on my iphone any photos then it also deletes it from my iphone photo album.
I don't use Google Photos but I could imagine the app has a setting to prevent that behavior.
Great video. I have a question though. If I’ve often imported photos from my phone to my Mac. If I turn on iCloud photos on both devices how does it handle that? Does it recognize them as duplicates and only upload one version to iCloud? Or will I wind up with a bunch of duplicates?
That depends on how you imported those photos. If you imported them directly into the Photos app on your Mac, then Photos will likely be able to identify the dupes. Otherwise, you might end up with duplicates.
@@MichaelKummer Thanks for replying!
Yes they were imported directly in to the Photos app (or iPhoto back in the day). If I were to wind up with thousands of duplicates how do I “undo” that? What I’m afraid of is that there isn’t a good way to do that? I do have Power Photos though which is good at finding duplicates.
I have the main library on an external drive (400+GB) and a backup copy on another external drive. I haven’t done an import in a year. (I used to do it all the time but I have no space issue on my phone and they’re backed up to Google Photos). I’m thinking maybe I should import those from the phone in to my backup copy so that at least I have one clean complete library that won’t be a part of the iCloud Photos experiment?
Then turn it on my iPhone and on my Mac and cross my fingers on duplicates? If I wind up with duplicates I can see if either Photos or Power Photos can find and remove the duplicates. If not then I somehow erase that iCloud Library everywhere, copy my backup library to my usual external drive, turn iCloud Photos back on using that library. My only slight concern about being extra likely to wind up with Duplicates is that I’ve used Power Photos in the past to merge two Photos libraries in to one Photos Library and remove duplicates in the process...so I have no idea if any kind of folder structure could have been altered from the original imports although I sort of doubt it...it probably just uses one and not the other but both were in the same location would be my guess.
What do you think? Btw, I called Apple and two people said I wouldn’t get duplicates but I wasn’t sure how much I trusted their answer. They both seemed unsure about understanding what I was asking.
@@amoore2165 You could try adding keywords to all photos and videos in your external library before importing those images into iCloud. That way, you can easily identify all tagged images and remove them if they end up as duplicates.
So, photos that still taking up iPhone's storage even though my iCloud photos library is on is the photos from another applications like whatsapp and twitter? Is there anyway to made these kind of photos to only go to the cloud and not taking up my iPhone storages?
"photos that still taking up iPhone's storage even though my iCloud photos library is on" - No, not necessarily as I've explained in the video.
"Is there anyway to made these kind of photos to only go to the cloud and not taking up my iPhone storages" No, there is not.
Best explanations! I would appreciate tho if you would answer a question I have for a while which is is there any way for me to delete the icloud photos backup so that i can free up 4GB of my icloud and NOT delete them from the iPhone gallery?
Hi Gustavo,
no, you can't delete photos from iCloud Photo Library (cloud) without having the photos automatically removed from all other devices that have iCloud Photo Library enabled.
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Earlier today I went to general and clicked on iPhone storage and it had a recommendation thingy right below where it shows all the apps and how much it takes up, anyways the recommendation was abt iCloud photos and it said enable right next to it and I clicked that and now it says ‘uploading all ur photos and videos can take some time. Check the upload status in photos app’ do you know what that’s about? Or if they’re going to delete everything or not?
It does exactly what it says: upload too photos and videos to iCloud, thus enabling iCloud Photos.
So helpful
But I wanted to ask if you didn't turn on the icloud at all and it's still 5gb on my iPhone7 and then I deleted the pics from recently deleted that means that they're gone forever or what?
If you delete photos from the recently deleted albums then they’ll be gone forever.
Hi i have a question. My photos are taking up my icloud storage and not my actual phone storage. I have so much free storage on my phone but for some reason all my photos are on my icloud storage and now my phone isnt backing up. How do i remove them from the icloud storage and onto my actual phone storage? It will be great help, thanks!
Disable iCloud Photos.
Thank you so much for this videos it almost explain everything but I hav a question as you said after optmizing full resolution photos will be downloaded on demand when we open it what if wifi or mobile data is off at that time will it show only lower resolution or thumbnail
2) My iphone has 64 gb pur of which only 30 gb is filled and than alao I hav choose. to optimize my photos and saves 2gb of storage on it now when I go to photos I dont feel they are of low resolution even videos dont load they open directly so is lower resolution happens why when iphone is low pn storage ??? Also I dont find any size difference in photos app like if a photo is pf lower resolution as you said after optimizing than it should be of lesser size . Please answer my questions
Hi Mohit!
1) When you're offline (no WiFi or Cellular connection), the phone won't be able to show full-res images and you'll only see thumbnails.
2) Correct. Your phone will keep full-res images until you run low on storage. At that point, local full-res images will be replaced on-demand by low-res thumbnails.
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I take a lot of screenshots. Is it true they take up more space then a photo? Excellent video. Thank you.
Hey Darlene,
a screenshot on my iPhone requires about as much space as a photo. So yes, you can certainly fill up your local and cloud storage with screenshots as much as you can fill it up with photos.
Hi! How do I delete photos without deleting them on iCloud? The only way I know is by disabling iCloud. But what happens if I enabled iCloud again after I have emptied my photos. Will the photos on iCloud stay or deleted- mirroring my now empty photo gallery? Thanks!
You can't delete photos or videos from your device if you have iCloud Photos enabled. You're not supposed to do that as I explained in my video.
To answer your question - if you disable iCloud Photos, then delete photos and turn iCloud Photos back on, your deleted photos will either come back or get deleted from iCloud too.
Question I have 2TB I cloud storage. But my iPhone gets full.
With voicememo recordings and photos. Can I save those items to iCloud Drive. And then delete from Apple device. But they’re stored there?
Yes, you can move both to the cloud. For photos, just turn on iCloud Photos!
Hi, I recently bought a new iPhone 12 and my old iPhone is an iPhone 8. On my old phone, the iPhone 8, I was paying for the extra storage monthly and I have over 20,000 pictures/videos. I want to keep all of those pics and videos on that phone, but I don’t want to pay for the storage anymore. If I cancel the extra storage I’m paying for monthly though, will my photos and videos still remain on the iPhone 8 phone and camera roll? Sorry if you’ve already answered this question
If you have all of these images and videos on your iPhone already (because it has enough local storage and you have "Download Full Resolution Images" turned on, then cancelling your storage plan won't delete those images and videos.
Hi, how can I lower my iPhone photo storage?
Also can I use google one instead of ICloud since it’s cheaper? If I can, how would I be able to do that. If I do choose to do that, can I always retrieve the photos any times I want from google photos?
Thank You
To reduce the amount of storage your photos and videos use, you can either manually delete or offload them or enable iCloud Photo Library.
I have never used Google for photo storage, so I don't know how it compares. However, I'm pretty sure it won't be as integrated into iOS and macOS as iCloud Photos is.
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Thank for this video sir, i was really worried that the photos that i deleted(Because they are no longer of use to me) where still taking space on iCloud
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I have a question, if I optimize my storage and then want to upload videos or pictures from my photo library to sites or social media are they still going to be high resolution??
Yes because as soon as you try to open or share an optimized image or video, iOS will download the full-res version to your device.
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Hello, thank you for the explanation. I need to upload photos from my laptop to iPhone 11 pro max. The “recommended” way online is to switch off iCloud photos from iPhone settings first and then connecting to iTunes. But if I switch off iCloud photos would it wipe out all my photos in iCloud? Please help
If your library is fully updated and in sync, disabling it won’t remove any photos from your phone!
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Hi Michael,really amazing andusefull video!!!
I would like to ask you this though... : I have an iCloud photos library synced with my iPhone and then a Photos library on my iMac with non enabled the iCloud photos. I used to manually add pictures on my iMac through photo stream and/or cable...
yet lately i discovered that a lot of pictures are missing from my iMac photo libarary.
Would it beagood idea to sync now or enable iCloud photos onmy iMac? What will happen with the two different Photo libaries (local and iCloud) will one overwrite the other or will they merge?
Thanks!!!!!!!
Yeah, I would definitely enable iCloud Photo Library on your Mac as well. When you do, your existing library will be merged into the iCloud version -so that might produce duplicates.
If you don't want that - make a backup of the existing library, and remove all photos from it before enabling iCloud Photo Library. You could also create a brand-new library and mark it as the "system library" before enabling iCloud Photo Library.
That way, you can switch back and forth between the iCloud and local libraries.
@@MichaelKummer thank you so very much!!! Last question... in order for the sync to happen (the uploads and downloads) do i need to have Photos Open all the time?? Thanks again for your precious advice!!!
@@jfrag1 No you don't need to keep the application open. Both iOS and macOS have background processes that handle the sync, even if the app isn't running.
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Hey dude , i need to remove data from iCloud drive , my i cloud drive is full as appear in you this video thumnail , but i can not find the way the delete it , it is taking damn big space , and i need to remove it , even i my phone storage is only 30gb used but the icloud drive is taking 70 gb space , need help how do i remove it ?
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Absolutely brilliant. I've learned more from this video that all the others I've spent hours watching
Great to hear!
so, the cloud is really not a backup but sort of a fail safe? If i did not use the cloud I could delete from my phone but still have all my photos on my computer and thus the backup hard drive? the benefit to icloud is simply the sharing of my photos with all my devices? This is the first time i have understood this. Thanks for your vid. as I thought i could delete from my phone and still keep a copy on the cloud. I'd have been in trouble except for my time machine, lol. I may look into Google. Thanks man .
Correct, it's not a backup per se but a fail-safe. If you disable iCloud Photo Library, you won't get all the photos synced to your computer, unless you do that manually.
Something still not clear: if you upload to iCloud, once you decide to close the account… do you have to download all the pictures manually to the device? Will it do automatically?
I’ve been thinking of getting iCloud for a brief period just so I can download the oldest pics to my computer and backup drive (with windows the phone app fails most of the times to import)
You can but don't have to download them manually. You can just sync them all to your Mac or iOS device and then disable iCloud.
Hello, I bought an icloud plan of 2 Tb, activate icloud photos and optimize iphone storage but my local storage continues full and it seems that my icloud storage isn't filling with my photos (I'm connected to WiFi so it should be working) can you help me with that? Thanks
What’s the status of your photo library? Does the photos app say it’s fully updated? A full sync might take days, depending on your internet speed.
My ipad is full. I have bought the 2TB. I want my ipad to be free and my videos and photos uploaded on the Cloud so my ipad can be free. What do you recommend.
Enable Optimize Storage in iCloud settings and wait for your photo library to upload completely.
Hi Michael, my iPhone, iPad and now my new MacBook Pro are all synced up with all of my photos on every device. I’ve just got my new MacBook and don’t want any photos on it from my other Apple devices. Can I turn off iCloud photo sharing on my MacBook Pro, delete them from there nd they’ll remain in the iCloud and on my other devices? Thank you :)
Yes, you can do that. Just make sure you disable iCloud Photos BEFORE deleting anything.
I have photos on my iCloud photos enabled on my phone and MacBook, but I don't want all the photos on my phone to be on my Mac but I still want them all kept on my phone. If I disable iCloud photos on my MacBook, will anything delete on my phone and will the photos delete from my Mac, or does disabling iCloud photos just stop the photos from syncing and then I have to go and delete the photos from my Mac afterwards? Hopefully this makes sense!!
Disabling iCloud Photos on your Mac will disable the sync. So any photos deleted on your iPhone will NOT be deleted on your Mac.
Keep in mind that if you do that and then re-enable iCloud Photos on your Mac in the future, you might end up with a mess because iCloud might replicate any changes to photos on your Mac to iCloud and, thus, your iPhone.
So I'd either keep iCloud Photos turned off forever or not at all.
Hi , Thank you so much for great explanation. I have a question.
I have just upgraded to 50 GB iCloud storage plan. I have uploaded all the 5k photos from iphone to iCloud. Optimize storage in on and i have low resolution photos on iPhone.
Now i want to import these 5k photos to my windows PC.
How can i do it bcz photos are in low resolution and I want full resolution in window pc? Plz guide.
You can install the iCloud for windows app or download the images from your PC using a browser (iCloud.com).
@@MichaelKummer Thank you so much for quick reply 😊
Hi I just got one question I had a iphone 7plus and it’s got totally broken can’t be fix and I bought iPhone 11 now and when I backup my half of photos and videos came back and half of them aren’t is any other way I can get them back aswell please as on my iPhone 7 Plus iCloud backup was off 😔
You don't need iCloud Backup for your photos if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled. I would go to iCloud.com and check if you can see ALL of your photos there. If so, just wait a little longer (assuming iCloud Photo Library is turned on) for the iPhone 11 to sync up.
If you don't see all of your pictures on iCloud.com, then your iPhone 7 didn't sync them up (or didn't have iCloud Photo Library enabled). In that case, you'd have to recover them from your old device manually.
I took some photos and then deleted within 5-10 minutes,then accidently cleared recently deleted album.Icloud sync was on at that time,but i was on cellular data.Any chance they might backed up to icloud?
There is an easy way to find out - just go to iCloud.com on a PC or Mac and see if your picture are there.
Cheers,
Michael
Im using iphone 5, 16gb. My problem is each app is eating memory on my phone in my 16gb. How to clear data or clear cache each app without reinstalling the app. My phone is gpp. RESET ADVICE is not advisable if your gonna mention that. Pls help
I'm not sure what to tell you other than deleting some of the apps you have or upgrading to a phone with more storage. I don't know that there is anything in between that might help you. Removing app-specific caches is certainly not something you can easily do in general, unless the app has such a feature.
Hi! Question, I just recently started using the iCloud and I copied all of my photos from iPhone to iCloud and after that I turned off my iCloud and started deleting photos and videos does that affect my files in the iCloud if I turned on again my iCloud settings?
Yes, your deletions would likely sync to iCloud and delete them there as well.
I don’t know if someone is still answering the comments but I just turned on the option optimise storage and it says that everything has been updaten when I open my library but the photos are still there in high resolution. And when I open my iPhone storage the photos are taking up the same amount of space as they do in iCloud storage. (My iPhone storage isn’t completely full btw but I’d still like to clear up the photo space). Can anyone help me with this?
It might take a while before iOS starts removing full-res images, especially of you have plenty of storage space left.
Pro tip : start using google photos to backup your entire life’s albums and never worry about storage space or losing pics or vids or paying another dime!
That's certainly one way...especially if data privacy isn't a major concern :)
what if you use a @icloud instead of a @google?
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Hello if have a new iPhone SE2 . When I take photos it looks clear as it is . When I view that photos in my photos app it gets slightly blurry . When I zoom it a little bit again it get back to the original resolution. Is this problem is in every iPhone . And how to fix this plzzzzz let me know ..
Thanks
Hi Rehan,
I thought I had replied already but now I don't see the comment anymore. Anyway - I've never seen this issue before. So if you're certain that iCloud Photos is turned off and all of your images are stored on your local device, I'd get in touch with Apple support so they can check out what's going on.
Hi everyone
How long does iCloud Photo Library store the temporary downloads in phone storage as in camera roll
There is no fixed timeline as far as I know. Instead, it depends on how much local storage space is available and when was the last time to accessed a cached image.
Heyy! I’m using my iPad if it turn off iCloud photos will it delete on my moms phone? we use the same iCloud and email and almost everything I’m really scared if I turn it off and it will get rid of my moms photos since we share photos since we have the same iCloud will it delete on my moms phone if I turn it off on my iPad? Please tell me before I make a wrong move (my mom has work on her phone that’s why)
Turning off iCloud photos on your iPad will not remove any photos from your mom’s iPhone.
@@MichaelKummer Thank you so much for helping! - Carmen :)
I have just enable iCloud photos on my IPhone and it is in the process of uploading 15,000 pictures to I cloud. If after I upload them, can I disable I cloud photos and they will still be in I cloud? Will they be on I cloud but not in my phone? Or will they be in both iCloud and on my phone in full resolution?
Once the upload is completed (can take days, just as a heads up), you could disable iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone and the photos will remain in iCloud. But, of course, none of your future photos would get uploaded unless you re-enable iCloud Photo Library.
I have a doubt! If I turn off the I cloud photo gallery option in settings will it cause any problem if I don’t want them to be backed up in I cloud coz I am fine with google photos!
I am New to ios and so I have many doubts about it
Hi Vasudha,
You won't have a problem by turning it off, but iOS won't synchronize your photos to other iCloud-enabled devices. Plus when you get a new phone, your photos won't automatically reappear in your photos library.
Cheers,
Michael
What does it mean then when you open your photos and there is an encircled exclamation point in the right lower hand of the photo.
It usually means that the photo you're viewing on your iPhone/iPad/Mac isn't the original but a lower-res version. If you have good internet connectivity and click on the photo, it should download the original.
So I had used a bunch of iCloud storage with photo so my dad press disabled and delete and it deleted photo and videos that were stored in my iCloud and it cleared up a bunch of storage and I was wondering if this is correct. And also it says that it will delete photos and videos after 30 days, so on iCloud storage there is photos if I turn on iCloud photos and then take a picture will it still delete after 30 days because iCloud photos sends it to iCloud.
You won't have much more iPhone storage by disabling iCloud Photo Library. So I'd turn it back on and set it to "optimize storage."
If you have iCloud Photo Library turned on and you delete an item, it'll be moved to the "Recently Deleted" album. After 30 days, the item will be permanently deleted. If you don't manually delete items, nothing will get deleted.
So if i want to free up space from ICLOUD and i have sync ON can I delete them from the iPhone will they be removed from iCloud??? Which is what i want to do
Correct.
Hi sorry for asking but I really need help.. if I disable and delete my iCloud photos .. will the photos in my device (iPhone photos gallery) be deleted too ? Or it just delete it in the iCloud ?
That depends on several factors. If you disable iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone and then delete all photos, then those photos will be gone from your phone but remain in iCloud.
If you disable iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone but then delete all photos from iCloud via iCloud.com (or another device that has iCloud Photo Library enabled), then they would remain on your iPhone for as long as you DO NOT re-enable iCloud Photo Library.
Of course, these are just two of numerous examples on how you could go about it.
If I save videos and photos from for example instagram that people send me will they be saved in my iCloud?
If you save those files to our camera roll and have iCloud Photo Library enabled: yes.
You mentioned that if a photo is deleted from iPhone it also gets deleted from iCloud backup so what is the point of backup then? Even if we have plenty of storage on iCloud, the phone will eventually run out of storage if we can’t delete the photos from iPhone? I’m confused.
The main point of my video was to explain that you do NOT need to delete photos or videos from your iPhone as iCloud will take care of storage management :)
I have 2TB iCloud storage but even with optimising pictures the storage in my iPhone is full ( photos) … how do I use the iCloud space and free up storage on my phone !
I'm really confused because I'm trying to upload my oldest videos from my phone and put them on youtube so I can delete them from my iphone, which I understood would delete it from icloud as well. I've been doing this slowly but surely because my icloud is full. My device, though, has TONS of data. So I pulled up icloud on my computer so I could reference it while I was uploading to youtube off my phone, but then I realized that my iphone, SOMEHOW, has far more videos on it from WAYYY back when, long before I had this device with tons of data, than my icloud does! How is that possible? I never deleted anything directly from icloud before, and I thought that if I had, that would also remove it from my devices. So how do I have very very old videos on my phone that came from before I had this particular phone, but they're not on my icloud????? Thanks for any help you can offer on that.
There is a chance that your iPhone hasn't completely synched up everything to iCloud yet.
So I am going to upgrade my iPhone soon. If I backup my current iPhone and am using iCloud photos, will I be able to see all those pictures on the new phone?
Yes!
So I have 2 phones. I turn off icloud photo on iphone1 and delete pictures but iphone2 is intact will all photos from icloud. Will all photos from icloud come back to iphone1 if i turn on icloud photo?
Nope, when you turn iPhone 1 back on, it’ll sync with iCloud and remove the local photos you deleted before. What matter is the time stamp of those changes. Whatever happened last will get synced.
Hi I just had a question. Is there a way to delete photos from iCloud without having them deleted on your iPhone? Is there a way to unlink them? I once tried ( a long time ago) tried to delete photos from my mom’s iPhone when I thought I had done this and ended up accidentally deleting like almost half of her photos. My parents have their iCloud on and was wondering if there was just a way to leave the photos on the iPhone.
And yes I deleted them from the recently deleted too.
No there is not. You either sync everything or nothing. If nothing (iCloud Photo Library turned off) you can delete photos from either iCloud or iPhone without affecting the other side, but none of your new photos or changes to photos would get synched either.
Michael Kummer what happens if I have an old iPhone with photos and I wanna use a different Apple ID. How would I prevent the iCloud from automatically turning on and syncing all of the photos one there?
You can always turn off iCloud Photo Library, regardless of what Apple ID you use.
I have a question my photos/vids on my iPhone won’t delete no matter how many times I delete them is there a fix to this possibly?
Not sure, I haven’t heard about that issue yet...