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jh160 Author

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4 points

Photos on iCloud and iPhone

My photos on iphone used up too much storage. So recently i bought iCloud storage, hoping that after uploading the photos I could free up some space on the iphone. And that was what I did. After uploading the pictures to iCloud, I deleted them from the iPhone. i just realized that this operation deleted all my photos from iCloud as well. :( :(

My questions:

is it possible to get the deleted photos back? How?
what is the proper way to store photos on iCloud but not on the iphone?

Thank you!

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 11

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 11:38 PM

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panchososa694

Level 7

20,623 points

Posted on Aug 6, 2020 12:20 AM

1) Try the steps in

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205912

2) You don't. That's not a feature of iCloud Photos. iCloud Photos is a syncing service, not a backup service. If you wish to offload your photos completely, then you need to do so by importing them to a computer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302

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