iPhone 12 iPhone doesn't save full resolution photos?

[Mildredop]

I've just turned off iCloud storage (it said it was nearly full and asked me to pay a monthly fee - no thanks, I just bought a 256GB iPhone).

I then get an email from Apple telling me to download my photos from iCloud within 30 days because "Original format, full resolution versions of your photos and videos are not stored on your devices"

Is that true?! I've paid for 256GB of storage and the iPhone will only save full res images if I have them upload to iCloud??

 

[Allyance]

It is a feature I have seen for years, check your iPhone settings, "device-sized versions" are used to save space on your iPhone. BTW additional storage on iCloud is cheap, I get 50 GB for $.99 /month. Can't even get a cup of coffee for that.

 

[bbfc]

I've just turned off iCloud storage (it said it was nearly full and asked me to pay a monthly fee - no thanks, I just bought a 256GB iPhone).

I then get an email from Apple telling me to download my photos from iCloud within 30 days because "Original format, full resolution versions of your photos and videos are not stored on your devices"

Is that true?! I've paid for 256GB of storage and the iPhone will only save full res images if I have them upload to iCloud??

Go to Settings > Photos and change the option. You just have selected that option in the past as I don’t believe it’s default.

 

[Mildredop]

Go to Settings > Photos and change the option. You just have selected that option in the past as I don’t believe it’s default.

I don't have that option. Is this something they have forced onto the iPhone 12/iOS 14?

 

[Mildredop]

It is a feature I have seen for years, check your iPhone settings, "device-sized versions" are used to save space on your iPhone. BTW additional storage on iCloud is cheap, I get 50 GB for $.99 /month. Can't even get a cup of coffee for that.

I'm not saying iCloud storage is expensive, but I've just paid a £250 premium for the 256GB model for the exact purpose of being able to store photos/videos. So I'll be really annoyed if the iPhone doesn't even save full res photos.

 

[PeterRollback]

I'm not saying iCloud storage is expensive, but I've just paid a £250 premium for the 256GB model for the exact purpose of being able to store photos/videos. So I'll be really annoyed if the iPhone doesn't even save full res photos.

Your iCloud photos will automatically download to your iPhone full res once iCloud photos has been disabled - which it is.
Also, though I know your iPhone is 256, you may want to consider backing up your photos else where because it something happens to your shiny new iPhone ( no power or defect) then all your photos will be gone... forever!

 

[now i see it]

Not true. A backup will have all the photos if they're not linked to iCloud Photos.

 

[PeterRollback]

Not true. A backup will have all the photos if they're not linked to iCloud Photos.

No it will not. Because if Op chooses not to pay for iCloud storage then they will only have 5 GB of free storage to back up to iCloud. Thus, im sure that entire collection of photos will not fit in his back up of only 5GB.