iPhone 13 Backing up iPhone with photos before new phone

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I'll be moving form an 11 to a 13 soon, and I've always used the iTunes backup when switching phones, which I also plan to do this time. This will be the first time I've switched phones since signing up for iCloud storage of my photos. Are there different steps I should take? If I confirm that my photos are on icloud.com, should I delete them from my phone to speed up the process? If it matters, I have the "Download and Keep Originals" option selected for my photos, so I think that means both my phone and iCloud have the highest quality, right? Thanks!

 

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if your pictures are in iCloud, they’ll stay there as long as you pay your monthly storage fee.
When you set up your new iPhone, just choose iCloud Photos and all those photo low res versions will download to your new iPhone. You don’t need to do anything fancy on your old phone.
Just back it up and restore the new phone from the backup as usual.

 

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if your pictures are in iCloud, they’ll stay there as long as you pay your monthly storage fee.
When you set up your new iPhone, just choose iCloud Photos and all those photo low res versions will download to your new iPhone. You don’t need to do anything fancy on your old phone.
Just back it up and restore the new phone from the backup as usual.

Thanks! Can I tell it not to download all the photos from iCloud to my phone? Don't really need them all since there are so many.

 

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If iCloud photos is turned on, all the low res versions of all the photos will automatically be downloaded to your phone whether you want them to or not.
Only way to prevent it is turn off iCloud photos-but then you won’t be able to use it.

 

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If iCloud photos is turned on, all the low res versions of all the photos will automatically be downloaded to your phone whether you want them to or not.
Only way to prevent it is turn off iCloud photos-but then you won’t be able to use it.

Gotcha, thanks. I'll switch to the low res version I think. I was worried at first not to have full res versions but if they're in the cloud I guess it doesn't really matter.
So, when iCloud, do most people just have all the photos they've ever taken on their phone? Or if that fills up your phone do you need to change a setting to only keep certain photos?
thanks again!

 

[now i see it]

Smart people edit their photos and don’t collect tens of thousands of pictures. Just keep the great ones.