How can I tell what photos I don’t have on my device but are in icloud?

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How can I tell what photos I don’t have on my device but are in icloud?

Trying to stop using iCloud and storing pictures on my iPad. How do I know which ones I don’t have on my iPad without searching through thousands of photos?

Posted on May 10, 2023 10:33 AM

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kassidy160 Author

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May 10, 2023 12:16 PM in response to Phil0124

Thank you for your reply. I went to turn off iCloud Photos because I’m out of storage in the iCloud and don’t want to pay more. So when I turned it off it said there may be photos not downloaded and I had 30 days to download them. So where do I go from there? On my iPad it said I’d lose 9000 items so I have no idea what that all means, honestly!

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Phil0124

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May 10, 2023 10:49 AM in response to kassidy160

iCloud is a syncing service, as such, there cannot be anything on iCloud that is not also on your device. The Photos app on your iPhone will show all photos, and will naturally sync them all to iCloud if space permits.

You can have lower quality photos on your device than on iCloud if you have Optimize Storage enabled in Settings ➜ Photos.

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Phil0124

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May 10, 2023 12:45 PM in response to kassidy160

Not sure what messages you are seeing. Turning off iCloud Photo Library will not delete anything from iCloud. It will just sever the connection between iCloud Photos and the iPhone Photos App.

This different from turning off iCloud entirely.

Normally, when turning off iCloud from Settings ➜ Account ➜ iCloud you should get a prompt asking you if you want to keep your content on the device or delete it. Answer that you want to keep it, to not delete anything from the device.

Once you turn it off, you can always go to the iCloud.com website, and delete anything from there without affecting any devices since the iCloud sync would have been turned off.

Where exactly on the iPad are you seeing the message that says you will lose 9000 items?

Can you post the complete message?

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How can I tell what photos I don’t have on my device but are in icloud?

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