Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Zcott t1_j9urpiq wrote

Reply to comment by Zaorth in How does iCloud work? by Zaorth

If you’ve selected 'optimise storage' then it'll show you thumbnails on the phone but download full res when asked. And yes, taking a photo will use both iCloud and local storage.

3

Zaorth OP t1_j9us9xd wrote

I see. Is there a way for it to only be on the cloud? So it doesn’t fill up my phone storage

1

paulstelian97 t1_j9veg8i wrote

You can't just manually remove from phone, but the phone WILL remove local copies if the space is low enough for it to matter.

1