Can I delete pictures from an album and it will still be in my iCloud storage?
Can I delete pictures from an album that I created and will that picture still be in my iCloud storage?
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
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If you only remove a photo from an album, it will still be on your Mac and in iCloud Photos.
If you delete the Photo it will be deleted from your Mac, from iCloud and from all other devices where iCloud Photos is turned on.
To remove a photo from an album without deleting the photo, control click on the photo in the album and then click "Remove photo from album."
iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264
Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.
If you want to turn off iCloud Photos on a device, see the information in: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204570
