Optimized iPhone Storage with iCloud, but Photos still taking up more than half the space of iPhone Storage.

I am already using a 2TB iCloud , and I have set Photos iCloud Sync to optimize iPhone storage so all the high-res photos are uploaded to icloud. I have an iPhone 12 with 64GB storage. But then, why is Photos still taking up 32 GB space on my iphone? That's not optimized, that's more than half.

Is there any way to optimize more than this? Any tips and tricks?

iPhone 12

Posted on May 8, 2023 7:37 AM

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muguy

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May 8, 2023 10:46 AM in response to BungaAs

That very well may be optimized depending on the size of your library. But, your device may also not have optimized all photos as optimization is only done should your device need space.

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