Once they’re backed up to iCloud, they’re accessible on all your devices by turning on “iCloud photos” toggle in settings on the respective device. You can also see your entire library at iCloud.com

I think he’s just accurately representing how iCloud photos work. However, I agree with you on this issue, it’s an issue on the side of iCloud though. I don’t want every single file to automatically backup and be expressed on every single device, I want it accessible from a separate app in which I specifically control every aspect of management, not automatically. I think Amazon photos does a much better job if you’re wanting any kind of command over what it’s doing.

Me too I can’t find my files in the actual cloud on my laptop access

@@hannanathan564 I agree that Amazon Photos provides more control, but they also charge extra for video backup past a minimal size. So I like Amazon’s feature of purely backing up photos. I know that all my photos, good or bad, are safely backed up to Amazon. But iCloud Photos does backup all my videos. So since I have the space with my Apple One subscription, I plan to use both iCloud and Amazon Prime Photos since iCloud Photos will delete a photo from everywhere if I delete it from my Phone and Amazon Photos won’t do that.

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100% agree

Because Albums are like Playlists. Ist literally says library. There is just everything in chronological order. Why would you remove the pictures there and break the orgnisation?

@@comedianjamie then what if I got nsfw images if someone wants to scroll my library?

@@zadisma then you can hide them, or move / copy them to the notes app 😀 (in both cases you can lock the images with a password / Face ID) 😉 (locking hidden Fotos // showing the hidden Album you can enable in settings)

That’s a feature I actually like. I’m trying to figure out how to change my “Me” photo in my one shared photo album instead of the sad depressing one sitting on piano bench.

Thanks for your comment Paul. I would try downloading the OneDrive application for Mac, and using the chunks method, drag your media out to your desktop, then bring them into the photos app from there. Another method would be just buying a cheap hard drive for the photo transfer, and either keep the hard drive for other uses, or you could probably just return it when you’re done with it

It has nothing, really nothing!, to do with hate. Let’s be honest when talking about organize photos. Many people want organize photos in folders or in albums. And when move a photo to another folder or album, then it has to be really moving. That is what many people expected. But the situation is different. The photos stay always in the camera roll/photo library. Definitely not everyone (including me) likes that.

@@Kluivertnr1 Eh you're wrong. You can organize photos in folders and albums. It is moving. It's not duplicating a photo if you put it in an album. It's not taking up more storage space by doing so. It is the same as all other photo apps. What do you mean the photos stay always in the camera roll/photo library? That's the point... The Library shows you all your photos and videos in chronological order. While albums and folders you create can sort the images. It doesn't duplicate the image, acting like you have two of them. The same photo can be added to multiple albums without increasing the amount of storage used on your device. This is because albums in Apple Photos are essentially virtual collections or pointers to the photos in your library, not separate files.

Widgets.

Man I’m going through the same thing I’m so confused. I just bought icloud and I wan to just transfer everything from my phone to iCloud to then clean out my phone and start fresh. Every video I find is the exact same thing

@@allcityink bro solved? Can yoh tell me the solution?

Every time you take a photo, it will automatically go to your photos app. The photos the camera app is your camera roll, which is just your recent photos you took on said device. If you remove a photo or video from either the photos app or camera roll, it will be deleted from the device all together. Your camera roll just takes photos from your photos app, it isn’t two separate storages that both take up space.

Yeah if you buy a new iPhone, it will automatically sync those photo’s into your new device, including your albums and folders, favorites, and Memories.

Hopefully you will see my answer to you

Good question. I don’t think so. Apple thinks very strange in some ways.

Yes. I think the way to do is using one of your devices without an Apple and an other device with an Apple ID.

Any answer ?

My question as well

Same here

You turn on optimize iPhone storage

Your iCloud Photos will always download on your device on less you turn off iCloud

This is perfectly possible. Via the File app. For example photos from a holiday, that you want saved in icloud ánd delete from your iphone. Go to the Photo app and select the photos of the holiday. Click on the share button and scroll down till you find ‘save in Files’. Now choose the location. On your device or in icloud drive. Also it’s possible to create a folder by clicking on the folder+ icon. When done, in the Photo app you can delete the photos you selected for the holiday (also in the bin of the Photo App) In the File app, on your left you see locations. That’s the place where to find the photos. On this way you can save space on your iphone. Hopefully this is helpful for you.

Yes

Not necessarily. The big thing is that you múst use the File app. Move all your photos, via the share button and the save in Files option, to the File app. One big advantage of the File app is that you can make folders. When the photos are moved to the File app, you can delete the photos in the Photo app. Before i forget. In the File app you can choose if you want save the photos on your device or on icloud drive.

Most likely delete photos that are not in the base 5G of storage after 30 days.

Yeah of course

iOS devices will always sync with each other, as long as you turn on iCloud.

Yes

Maybe you have some option enabled on one of the devices that keeps them locally and that keeps uploading the photo to icloud again :)

It will also delete from icloud. Very frustrated. I know. There is a way to solve this. The first step is to move your photos from the photo app to the file app. Not all together. For example from a period like a holiday. In the photo app > 1) select the photos 2) click on the share button 3) search for ‘save in files’ 4) choose a location in files °on your device° or °in icloud drive° so you choose icloud drive 5) eventually make a folder where you put the photos The last thing you do: go back to the photo app, delete the holiday photos (also check the bin or recently deleted photos)

Google drive em that’s what I did

Yes you don’t manually upload anything to the cloud. It does it automatically as a back up. It’s not additional storage for your phone. However as you can see in those settings, you can set it to where your phone will only keep the lower quality version on the device if you’re getting close to running out of storage. This is my understanding anyway.

Figured half of my question out: shared albums do not show up in iCloud. It is not my issue but a universal issue.

Yes and that is imo a big problem.

locally save photos and delete from icloud. So I'm trying to delete some photos from iCloud but keep them stored locally on my Mac (and ideally iOS devices but that doesn't really matter so much). Is there a way to do this? All research I've done shows me how to delete the photos locally but keep them on iCloud! The easiest way to do this is to make an album into which you put all photos that you want to keep, then drag and drop them from Photos into a folder on your hard drive. After the copy has finished, right-click on the photos in the album then choose Delete (not Remove from Album as that won't delete them from the library). This will remove them from iCloud as well. Keeping them on the iOS devices is trickier as there's no separate area to store them. You could create a shared album in Photos, copying the photos into it before deleting them from the regular album. (Shared albums are not included in your regular Photos library, so they won't be copied back to your iCloud Photo Library.) This would then make them available on the Shared tab of any iOS devices that use the same Apple ID, or any users you invite to the shared album for that matter.