I bought iCloud storage via Apple one in hopes of freeing up space on my iPhone. I thought that it was automatically back up photos to the cloud and then delete them off my phone. But apparently that’s not the case. Am I missing something?
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.
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.
Thank you for your answer - FoxForceFive :-)
We have been using Google and Microsoft to back up all of our photos. I was hoping to get high quality back ups in the Apple cloud. Guess I'll just stay the course with the way we are doing things now. Don't know what I'm gonna do with 2 TB of storage.
Happy New Year! Bob
Free up storage on my phone
