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I don’t have enough storage on my phone. I’ve backed up my photos on the cloud and now I want to delete them on my phone but it tells me if I do that it will delete them from my cloud as well

Posted on Mar 24, 2022 11:17 AM

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Posted on Mar 24, 2022 1:01 PM

If you turned on "iCloud Photos" that is not the same as iCloud Backup. Indeed you cannot back them up to iCloud Backup.

iCloud Photos is a sync to all devices feature. If you want to save space use the Optimise Storage feature in Settings, General, iPhone Storage.

Or download/import all your Photos to a computer and sync some or all of them back to the phone from there.

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