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iCloud photos

I’m checking my iCloud photo

but I can’t find the way to check the photo that ONLY in iCloud


can someone help me?

iPhone 12, iOS 15

Posted on Jan 31, 2022 5:29 AM

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Posted on Jan 31, 2022 9:19 AM

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, the photos in iCloud are also on your device. iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264


Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.



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Jan 31, 2022 9:19 AM in response to endercup

If you have iCloud Photos turned on, the photos in iCloud are also on your device. iCloud Photos is a syncing service. Any photo you delete from a device where iCloud Photos is turned on will also be deleted from iCloud and from any other device connected to iCloud Photos. You can potentially reduce the storage space required on a device by turning on Optimize Storage. See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264


Apple does not currently offer cloud-only storage for photos. If that is what you want or need, you may want to explore 3rd party options such as Google Photos or Dropbox.



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