Hello, can anyone help me understand why I’m getting no storage space errors on my 60 gb iPhone if I have 2 tb available on iCloud and optimize photos on?

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lil_sebastian13 t1_jeg6bdl wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Having internal storage and having cloud storage is not the same thing.

Using iCloud Photos still requires for you to have some internal storage available.

Mission_Reaction9557 OP t1_jeg9abm wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:07 PM

Even if I have Optimize photos on? It was my understanding that would fix the issue…what is the point of optimize photos if it doesn’t keep what fits on my phone and what doesn’t in iCloud?

lil_sebastian13 t1_jeg9q98 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:10 PM

Yes, it still needs to save a small resolution version of the photo on the phone's storage.

And your point is exactly why I do not use iCloud Photos. Would love to see Apple finally give the option to fully save an image on iCloud without taking any space on the device.

jw154j t1_jegf9vs wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:47 PM

It does. But there are limitations to how compressed the files can be and still give you access to them. For example I have 14GB in iCloud Photos taking up 800MB on my iPhone and 400MB on my iPad, due to it only having 32GB of storage. You still have a finite amount of phone storage, and once filled up the only thing you can do is backup your photos from iCloud to a computer. You should be able to see the compressed amount of storage vs iCloud storage used by comparing the storage in iCloud settings and iPhone storage setting.

-idratherbenapping- t1_jeg6aq0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Look at the breakdown of storage on your phone.

Mission_Reaction9557 OP t1_jeg9e9c wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:08 PM

It’s mostly photos…is there any way to get rid of photos on the iPhone but keep them in the iCloud?

-idratherbenapping- t1_jegcxsg wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:32 PM

No, iCloud is a sync service so when a photo is deleted from the device it’ll be deleted from the cloud and other devices as well. You could backup to another service and then delete.

jw154j t1_jegfrwk wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:51 PM

No, and moving them to a different service would be difficult and would probably require a computer, as it would have to download the photos to your device before uploading to a new service. And you don’t have the space to do that.