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I want to move all photos and videos to iCloud storage so I can use more apps on my iPhone. I don’t have enough storage on the phone to read messages or anything.

I need to move all photos and videos to iCloud or iCloud Drive so that I can use my iPhone for the basics. How do I do that?

iPhone 6s Plus

Posted on Sep 30, 2020 4:04 PM

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Posted on Sep 30, 2020 6:23 PM

It is not possible to completely remove photos and videos from an iPhone by moving them to iCloud. 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.


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Sep 30, 2020 6:23 PM in response to mightystream

It is not possible to completely remove photos and videos from an iPhone by moving them to iCloud. 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.


I want to move all photos and videos to iCloud storage so I can use more apps on my iPhone. I don’t have enough storage on the phone to read messages or anything.

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