I want to move my photos to the cloud family plan
How can I move the photos from my iPhone to my family plan iCloud storage?
iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 13
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When family sharing iCloud storage, your storage is still separate and you continue to access it under your own Apple ID in exactly the same ways as if you were not sharing storage. See: Share an iCloud storage plan with your family - Apple Support
Regarding photos and iCloud, the following is the same whether or not you are sharing storage.
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: Set up and use iCloud Photos - Apple Support
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.
Another way that photos may be on iCloud (if you don’t have iCloud Photos turned on) is via a backup of an iOS device. The only thing you can do with a backup is use it to restore a device or set up a new device. The contents of backups are not viewable at iCloud.com and if you delete a photo from a device it will not be included in future backups and will be lost.