Icloud questions for photos

[therocksal]

Hi,

I was wondering if this is how this whole thing can work for me...newb with APPLE.

I want to backup all my photos on an external SSD drive attached to my mac mini.

I will be taking pics from my iphone 11 and also using the SSD reader to put pics from my DSLR onto my ipad. I would "like" the photos from both the iphone 11 and the ipad to go to icloud. Then, once a month or so, i would go to my mac mini and download the full resolution photos to my mac mini, save them on that external drive and do a time machine backup.

Once I download them to my Mac, can I then delete them from icloud and then they would not show up anymore on the iphone or ipad since those are small renders of those photos and not the full size photos, which are ONLY being sent to icloud.

Is this how it work? If so, great...if not, can some explain how I might be able to do this?

Thanks.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

If I understand you right, this will all work. What you delete from iCloud on one device will delete it from all participating (synced) devices. On all Apple products, you have the option to let each device "optimize" storage, where full versions of the picture only load if you zoom. It would save you the trouble of culling all the time, so long as you have enough iCloud storage.