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Delete photos on phone, keep on iCloud

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  • 09-10-2016 6:55pm
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    MountainAshIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Is there any way to permantely delete photos from my phone but keep them on my cloud or any cloud like OneDrive?


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    Star_Nupa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Star_Nupa


    Upload to onedrive on a PC. Delete from photos app.

    Or better yet - download Google photos app, sync from photos and then remove them from stock photos app.

    Can't with iCloud though. It's more of a syncing service as oooosed to a backup.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,678 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    If you enable "Optimise iPhone Storage" in iCloud Photo Library it will store full resolution copies in the cloud but only download them to your phone as necessary and erase them again when you need that space. I think this is a much better option, but if you prefer to manually manage your storage and want all effective free space to be really free and not purgeable then this isn't for you.


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    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    You only get 5GB with iCloud. So you are likely to have more than that on your phone. So if you want to use iCloud you'll probably have to buy more space.

    Things like Dropbox or OneDrive will give you more space for free. I find them a bit easier. I use iCloud to back up the iPhone and data, and something else for the photos and video's.

    Why not try them and see what you like. Some people are happy to pay for extra space on iCloud and keep everything with Apple.


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    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,678 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    You can get 50GB of iCloud storage for only 12 euro a year. For me anyway that's worth the integration.

    I haven't tried OneDrive, but I'm in the process of switching away from Dropbox. A lot of security and performance concerns have been raised about their Mac app recently. I suspect it's been the cause of sleep wake failures and overall poor performance on my MBA.


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    MountainAshIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭MountainAshIRL


    Have one drive on my phone and the app on windows 10 laptop. It downloads to photos app but I have deleted a photo or two from my phone and it also deletes from photo app on the pc? I'm confused at this stage as I should be able to keep them with OneDrive cloud when deleting from phone??


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    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 10,022 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    MountainAshIRL wrote: »
    Have one drive on my phone and the app on windows 10 laptop. It downloads to photos app but I have deleted a photo or two from my phone and it also deletes from photo app on the pc? I'm confused at this stage as I should be able to keep them with OneDrive cloud when deleting from phone??
    Onedrive does not operate this way. You must be deleting them from the actual OD storage as opposed to your camera roll. It's not possible for it to work the way you suggest.


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