I somehow dont like the way icloud works. Like I deleted all the photos in the cloud, then I tryna backup whats currently in my phone in because my phone is full and quite unfunctioning atm. However, icloud decided to download all the photos I deleted back into my phone, now I can barely do stuff with the phone.
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Original Title: i somehow dont like the way icloud works
iPhone 15 Pro Max, iOS 18
hemmin wrote: … I somehow dont like the way icloud works.
Maybe you just don't know how iCloud works. Perhaps you don't need iCloud and shouldn't be using it. It may be that you don't have any need for what iCloud does.
iCloud Photos is a synchronization service. When you engage iCloud Photos on a device, then the Library on that device is kept just the same as the iCloud Photos Library. So, for instance, if you take a picture with your iPhone, it is added to the iPhone's Photos Library, copied to iCloud Photos Library, and then copied to the Photos Library on each of the other devices that you have connected. If you delete a picture on your Mac, then that picture is deleted at iCloud and on all the other devices.
iCloud is especially useful when we have lots of devices that we want to work together, and that we want to be able to access our files from a web browser. iCloud is not some sort of external drive. iCloud keeps our pictures exactly the same on all our devices. Is that what you need?
You can use Optimize Storage on the Mac, on your iPhone, or on your iPad. You can set this on any device, independent of the others. If you set a device to "Optimize Storage," then Photos may store only smaller images on the device and rely on iCloud to keep the full sized images. So, if Optimize is chosen, and you want to Edit a picture, Photos will reach out to iCloud to get a full sized image for you to work on. It's the same for printing or anything that demands the full picture. Your optimized Library may take up less than 20% of the space of a fully downloaded Library. But an optimized Library may be kept larger than that if the extra storage space is not needed.
So you need to decide what you need and if iCloud does that for you.
Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support
iCloud Drive is a similar service for documents.
How can I manage my iCloud data?
