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How do I save photos on my iCloud and then delete them from my phone without losing any photos.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 25, 2020 3:25 PM

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Posted on Jun 25, 2020 3:34 PM

You may to either clean out iCloud - Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support, or you may not have enough on-device storage space - How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support.


About storage on your device and in iCloud - Apple Support

Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support

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Jun 25, 2020 3:34 PM in response to Lizzard28

You may to either clean out iCloud - Manage your iCloud storage - Apple Support, or you may not have enough on-device storage space - How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support.


About storage on your device and in iCloud - Apple Support

Manage your photo and video storage - Apple Support

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Jun 25, 2020 3:26 PM in response to Lizzard28

You cannot as that's not how iCloud works or was designed. iCloud serves as a syncing service that syncs all of your photos/videos across all devices. What you may be looking for as it relates to what you're asking is something like Dropbox or Google Photos.

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