I woke up this morning to a message that my iCloud storage was running low. I know I keep all my pictures in my mac so I turned off the iCloud photos sync from my phone. I was half asleep, I don't remember being asked anything, but when going back to my phone and my mac hours laters, half of all my pictures are gone. I can't find them on the recently deleted iCloud tab either. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
iPhone 14, iOS 16
See the article Get help with iCloud Photos - Apple Support
How do I turn off iCloud Photos on only one device?
You can turn off iCloud Photos on a single device when you follow these steps:
If you have Optimize Storage turned on, you might not have all of your original photos and videos on your device. To download the original photos and videos on your device, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos and select Download and Keep Originals. On your Mac, open Photos, choose Photos > Settings or Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud, then select Download Originals to this Mac. Keep your device plugged in to power and connected to the internet. After your originals download, you can turn off iCloud Photos. You can also select the photos and videos that you want to download from iCloud.com.
Before you turn off iCloud Photos, you might want to make a copy of your photos and videos.
See the article Get help with iCloud Photos - Apple Support
How do I turn off iCloud Photos on only one device?
You can turn off iCloud Photos on a single device when you follow these steps:
If you have Optimize Storage turned on, you might not have all of your original photos and videos on your device. To download the original photos and videos on your device, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos and select Download and Keep Originals. On your Mac, open Photos, choose Photos > Settings or Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud, then select Download Originals to this Mac. Keep your device plugged in to power and connected to the internet. After your originals download, you can turn off iCloud Photos. You can also select the photos and videos that you want to download from iCloud.com.
Before you turn off iCloud Photos, you might want to make a copy of your photos and videos.
Your question is titled "iCloud Photos Backup". It is dangerous to think of iCloud Photos as an iCloud backup of your photos. iCloud Photos is a syncing service, keeping the photo libraries on all your devices and in iCloud identical. Any photo we delete on a synced device, will be deleted on all other synced devices as well, also from iCloud. And not even saved in Recently Deleted, if you are low on iCloud Storage as in your case. If you have been using iCloud Photos, the iCloud backup of your iPhone will not include your photos, and the Time Machine backup of your mac will only include the photos you had stored locally on your Mac - photos that not yet have been downloaded from iCloud will be missing. In short, iCloud Photos does not suffice as a full backup, that will allow you to recover accidentally deleted photos, but on the contrary, it is making it harder to get a full backup of the photos, as our regular backups (Cloud backup of the iPhone, Time Machine on the Mac) will not necessarily include all photos.
You’ll need to recover from your Time Machine backup
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