iphone says photos are not downloaded on phone even though they are

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iphone says photos are not downloaded on phone even though they are

I wanted to turn off icloud photos because i don‘t need it since i don‘t have that many photos. So I switched the „optimise iphone storage“ to „download and keep originals“. After a few minutes it said it was synced. My photos also took up about the same amount of space again that they used to before i started using icloud photos. So i wanted to turn off and delete icloud photos. But now it says „Some of your photos and videos stored in iCloud are not downloaded on this iPhone.“ even though they‘re synced and downloded on the phone. Then there‘s the option to do it anyways but I‘m scared to do that even though i‘m pretty sure it downloaded everything.

iPhone 11, iOS 16

Posted on Dec 3, 2023 7:43 PM

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Apr 10, 2024 5:26 PM in response to 1vona

Don't know if this is still an issue for you or not. But as far is i can tell this is a scare tactic. I checked icloud.com and logged in there and it had the number of photos and videos at the bottom, and then the same thing with the photos app. They were the same number. I still got the warning message. I turned iCloud photo back up off and deleted the photos. I got the message saying that i should turn it back on in order to not lose my photos. I took one screen shot on my phone (the one below) and then checked iCloud.com again and the photos app again, and got the following numbers, as well as a the warning on iCloud.com that my photos would be deleted after thirty days

Then i checked the photos app on my phone and it had

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