Heading overseas and i just want to make sure if i fill my phone storage can i purchase icloud and store my footage on there and delete it off my phone to create space.
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alivardz OP t1_ja5lfha wrote
I have unlimited storage on google so I might do that
Josh_Butterballs t1_ja624nk wrote
You can save the photos you want to delete on iCloud Drive and they’ll stay there even once you delete them from the photos app. iCloud Drive is like the storage locker version of iCloud basically
alivardz OP t1_ja63o02 wrote
when i search icloud drive in the app store it says "this app requires specific features not avalabileon this device"
Josh_Butterballs t1_ja63z5u wrote
It’s in the files app
alivardz OP t1_ja646ui wrote
So if I save my photos from the photos app to files and then delete them they are effectively off my device and on the cloud?
Josh_Butterballs t1_ja6pryk wrote
Sorry for the late reply. Yes. You could save it to iCloud Drive then delete it off the photos app. They would remain in your iCloud Drive. You could make a folder in your drive and name it something like “photo library” and dump all the photos there or if you want to organize a bit you can date them like “Photos 2018” and then just move photos from that year there.
alivardz OP t1_ja6tc86 wrote
Awesome thanks for that
Josh_Butterballs t1_ja621kp wrote
If they save the videos and content they want to delete on iCloud Drive then it should stay there after deleting them from the photos app. iCloud works as a synchronizing system rather than a storage locker. iCloud Drive however, does function as the latter.
infinityandbeyond75 t1_ja63n8t wrote
Yes, this can work but it’s still a synchronization since if you delete it from the Files app on the phone it will delete it on the Files app everywhere. There’s a big difference in a true backup service over something like Google Drive or iCloud Drive.
whitehusky t1_ja5jx8c wrote
No, that’s not how it works. Deleting on your phone will also delete in iCloud.
alivardz OP t1_ja5jztg wrote
New iPhone user here hence the question. Thanks for letting me know!
whitehusky t1_ja5kmjo wrote
Yeah the purpose of iCloud Photo Library is to allow you to have a large library all accessible from all your devices. If you have iCloud Photo Library on, and the setting to NOT store originals, you’ll achieve your original goal though. It will store only thumbnails on your iPhone, with originals in the cloud. I will LOOK like all your photos and videos are on your device, but they aren’t. It will intelligently use space to keep original copies of ones it thinks you’ll want to look at (like favorites). It will also free up space as needed as well. So you may see a large amount of space used by Photos, but as you need more space, it will intelligently free that space up on its own. In other words, turn on iCloud Photo Library, set it to not store originals on device, and it will free up space as you need more for other stuff. Then if you go to use a photo/video that’s in the cloud, you’ll see a low res version for a few seconds, until it downloads the full version from the cloud (and a little circular download status indicator).
alivardz OP t1_ja5kx3d wrote
I think the best option for me is to bring an external hard drive and offload footage on to that safest option
infinityandbeyond75 t1_ja5l6lz wrote
They best way to look at iCloud is that it’s a synchronizing service, not a backup. What you do on iCloud does the same on the iPhone. What you do on the iPhone happens on iCloud. One thing you can do is choose the option to optimize photos on the phone so not as much storage is needed. If you really want to offload pics then you’ll want to save them to like Google photos or use something like Dropbox.