Difference between iCloud photos and Photo library backup. Question.

[Fred Zed]

I think I know what the differences are but thought I’d check. If I try to enable iCloud photos switch on my iOS devices it states that xxxxx number of photos will be removed because they were originally put on my iOS devices via finder iTunes. However, within the device backup option there’s a switch to enable Photo library backup. The size of the photo library is much smaller than what is show under iCloud photos. Are the photo library photos the actual pics taken or saved by the device ? It allows me to back these up whatever they are and doesn’t remove my thousands of photos that were originally imported to my device via iTunes. Cheers

 

[ian87w]

This reminds me of an older post.

Trying to turn on iCloud photos for the first time, need help with the warning “photos and videos from finder will be removed”.

Good evening everyone, I have over 90GB of photos/videos and trying to sync to iCloud to save 77GB since I’m running low on storage. I don’t want to lose any photos/videos or have any issues while transitioning over to iCloud. I pay for iCloud and have 200Gb of space. I attempted to turn on...

forums.macrumors.com

First thing first, make sure you have a backup of all your photos on your computer before you turn this on. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Fred Zed]

This reminds me of an older post.

Trying to turn on iCloud photos for the first time, need help with the warning “photos and videos from finder will be removed”.

Good evening everyone, I have over 90GB of photos/videos and trying to sync to iCloud to save 77GB since I’m running low on storage. I don’t want to lose any photos/videos or have any issues while transitioning over to iCloud. I pay for iCloud and have 200Gb of space. I attempted to turn on...

forums.macrumors.com

First thing first, make sure you have a backup of all your photos on your computer before you turn this on. Better safe than sorry.

I already have, they are synced via iTunes in a photos folder on my desktop pc.
I didn’t turn on iCloud photos. I turned on photo library backup switch and it backed up. So still unsure what Photo Library backup contains ? According to the general and storage menu my photos are approx 60gb. Yet photo library is about 8gb.