If you’re running out of storage space on your iphone, it’s very likely that photos and videos are taking up more space than they should. Deleting photos and videos from an iPhone to save storage space is one solution (and every time you do it, you also remove them from iCloud, freeing up cloud storage in the process). But there may be cases where you want delete photos and videos from iCloud and keep them on your phone… and this is possible.
This is how iCloud photo upload works
When you take a photo or record a video, this uploads to iCloud in two different ways. First, you can choose to sync the Photos app on your iPhone with iCloud. In this case, everything in the app is moved to iCloud, as long as there is enough cloud storage. You also have the option of My Photo Stream, which only contains the last 30 days of Photos content.
Cloud file deletion
Once you have done the two previous steps, you must go to the application Settingclick on your name and then go to iCloud and then to Photos. Turn off the option sync this iPhone. The first of the things you have to do you have already completed.
Now sign in to iCloud from a web browser. What you have to do is go to Photos and then delete the items you want to delete. You can sign in on any device, be it an iPhone, a Mac computer, and even a Windows computer. Deleting photos and videos won’t remove them from iPhone at this time, because the device and your iCloud account aren’t synced.
Also you can delete photos and videos from My Photo Stream on your iPhone without worrying about deleting them from iPhone storage. But, and this is important, deleting files from the Photos app will also delete them from My Photo Stream. Don’t ever forget this.
Some options to consider
Before you begin, you should understand an important iPhone setting, the so-called Optimize iPhone Storage. This feature will move your full-resolution photos and videos to iCloud to automatically free up storage, which means your iPhone will keep smaller versions.
If you use the function we just discussed, you must beware not delete those original files. You can enable the Download and keep originals option to make sure that the discharge files are not deleted to avoid problems.
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