Does storing photos and music on iCloud free up storage on my Mac?
Does storing photos and music on icloud free up storage on my mac?
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Original Title: Increase mac storage
Mac mini, macOS 15.7
Not directly, no. iCloud is not an off device storage.
It may reduce the amount of storage taken up by them in certain cases, but will not free it up entirely.
For music, if using the iCloud Music Library, you can remove downloads from the Mac to free up some space.
But it still highly recommended to keep a backup of your music library locally on an external drive. If anything ever happens to the Apple Music subscription, anything not locally backed up can be and usually is lost.
For Photos, again, if using iCloud Photos, you can turn on Optimize Storage in the Photos App settings and it will reduce the quality and file size of photos locally, but will still take up some space.
click here ➜ Optimize storage in Photos on Mac - Apple Support