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ZivH08ioBbXQ2PGI t1_jec29qp wrote

That's not how you're supposed to do it, and as long as you have iCloud space (or don't mind paying for enough space) you should let them all in iCloud.

If you have iCloud Photos enabled, your photos should all upload in full quality to iCloud, and then your phone is able to get rid of the full versions and just keep thumbnails in your Photos (if your phone needs the space) so that if you go to look at older photos, you'll have a momentary pause while it downloads the full version seamlessly.

There's no reason to mess around with getting them off your phone onto a computer and manually do any of that -- unless you don't have space in iCloud.

Your phone will basically keep as many photos in full quality as it can based on available free space, but they can be purged at any time because it will just download the full version again if you open it.

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based_trad3r t1_jecr2ne wrote

iCloud photos syncs and uploads photos to the cloud while storing a smaller version of the photo on your phone. No need to interface with computers. Click on photos that are stored in the cloud and full-size downloads.

Less rambling, more to point.

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everydayanswers OP t1_jecojk6 wrote

Right I get what you’re saying, but that’s not how I want to do it. I use another cloud service to store my images, as well as on an external hard drive as backup. The only reason I use iCloud is to see my photos on my desktop, as a mirror of my phone. I don’t want to use iCloud as the actual storage service because I’m using other services for that. Whether or not that’s efficient or not is irrelevant

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