Are Photos Deleted From icloud Recaptured If They Remain on Device

[VFN]

Apologies if this question is in the wrong category.

If you delete photos on icloud but not from the device from which they were taken does icloud back them up again? If not, icloud only backs up photos and vids at the moment they're taken?

Running out of icloud space.

Thanks

 

[BigMcGuire]

When you delete photos in iCloud Photos it deletes them on all your devices.

iCloud Drive acts the same way.

 

[VFN]

thanks

so the only way to keep a photo if you remove it from the cloud is to save it directly to a device?

 

[jgrove]

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so the only way to keep a photo if you remove it from the cloud is to save it directly to your device?

I have to admit I find the whole iCloud thing confusing. So if you use iCloud across all your devices, if you delete a photo from any device it syncs across all of them, thereby removing it from all locations, with no backup. However it does store deleted items for a while, I just can't remember for how long, I think you can see that within the iCloud web application or on a Mac computer using Photos App.

This is how Apple get you to continue to buy storage on the cloud. So every so often I arrive the entire library to 2 external drives and start a new library on iCloud. This does mean that those phots cannot be accessed using iCloud.

I hope that makes sense, but saving it directly to your device will not work if its in the Photos part of your device, as it will resend it back across all devices.

Regards

 

[VFN]

Thanks

Yes, so I started saving photos from icloud and noticed that after the download the folder uploads it to the icloud. (I'm out of space so the upload fails.)

So a couple of questions:

Will icloud attempt to store these photos I'm saving again in the future? (I intend to delete photos from the cloud thus creating space.)

Is there a way, outside of external drives and turning off icloud, to keep photos on a device without it being saved to icloud? Can I tell icloud not to save data in a particular folder?

 

[VFN]

I'm double posting to add additional information that's key to the issue being discussed:

You can prevent a folder from being saved to icloud by adding .nosync to its name. I found the tip here

 

[jgrove]

Thanks

Yes, so I started saving photos from icloud and noticed that after the download the folder uploads it to the icloud. (I'm out of space so the upload fails.)

So a couple of questions:

Will icloud attempt to store these photos I'm saving again in the future? (I intend to delete photos from the cloud thus creating space.)

Is there a way, outside of external drives and turning off icloud, to keep photos on a device without it being saved to icloud? Can I tell icloud not to save data in a particular folder?

Just don't use iCloud for your photos, this can be found in the settings of your iOS device, and you would have to backup manually using a PC or MAC or store them to another cloud options such as OneDrive or Google Drive.

 

[VFN]

Just don't use iCloud for your photos, this can be found in the settings of your iOS device, and you would have to backup manually using a PC or MAC or store them to another cloud options such as OneDrive or Google Drive.

Per above, if you add .nosync to a folder's name icloud won't recognize it. So you don't need to use an external drive to prevent icloud from saving files on your device. Through settings you can also prevent icould from saving any files located on your desktop which is overly broad imo.