All iPads Am I duplicating photos? iCloud storage is doubling, since I’ve imported photos from iPhone to iPad

[Marty_Macfly]

Hi guys,

Newbie question I’m afraid.

I’ve imported my 30gb of photos from my iPhone, onto my iPad, by USB.

I now noticed that my iCloud storage requirements is suddenly doubling.

Have I accidentally duplicated my photos on the iPad? Or is that just the way iCloud storage works?

I was hoping with the sheer number of photos, That iCloud storage will be a lot more clever. I.e. there is 30 gigs of photos, shared between iPhone and iPad. It shouldn’t require 60gb of storage for the same photos.

Am I doing something pretty basic wrong?

Please advise

Cheers
Martin

 

[akash.nu]

You don’t have to manually copy any photos. Just turn on optimised storage on iPhone and iPad and login with the same iCloud account. It’s intelligent enough to sync everything between the 2 devices.

 

[0128672]

Hi Martin, I responded in your other thread here about using iCloud Photo, which will sync your iCloud Photo library via wi-fi between your devices that have it enabled. It's not clear to me what you mean about using USB. You don't need to import photos that are in iCloud on one device to make them appear on the other device. It does sound like somehow you have duplicated your library onto your iPad. You can confirm that by viewing your All Photos album to see if there are duplicates.

As a general rule too, whenever you're going to perform an action on a large dataset (like 30GB of photos), you'd want to test it first on one photo to see if it works and how it behaves. I'm unaware of a method to delete duplicates other than manually in Photos, but maybe someone has an app that might work.

 

[AutomaticApple]

by USB

Which form of USB? USB-C?

 

[Marty_Macfly]

Which form of USB? USB-C?

ipad - hub adapter - iphone

does that make a difference?