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iPhone 11 Pro Photos keeps telling me I’m low on iphone storage??
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You’ve only got 25GB free and that amount of pictures and videos will take up more than that IMO.
What I can’t work out is the storage chart shows a tiny amount for photos, so are they all in iCloud? I’m assuming you’re trying to synchronise? That collage of images is deceiving.
What I can’t work out is the storage chart shows a tiny amount for photos, so are they all in iCloud? I’m assuming you’re trying to synchronise? That collage of images is deceiving.
every so often on my desk top I goto icloud.com and edit my iPhone photos.
-icloud.com has not been kept up to date, the web site is dated clumsy so it could be better
-it gives me a bigger perspective of the photos my iPhone as accumulated
-organizes the items by date it which helps
-first i delete
-next i down load the keepers onto a home Drobo NAS box
-next i upload refresh the photos/video i want to keep in my iPhone
none of this tech is going away soon. Just a little bit of organization...
where these photos are all medium quality they are events in my most recent life.
i would ❤❤love to get a macOS app for that desk top that senses movement in the kitchen and pulls up random photos off the NAS box
-icloud.com has not been kept up to date, the web site is dated clumsy so it could be better
-it gives me a bigger perspective of the photos my iPhone as accumulated
-organizes the items by date it which helps
-first i delete
-next i down load the keepers onto a home Drobo NAS box
-next i upload refresh the photos/video i want to keep in my iPhone
none of this tech is going away soon. Just a little bit of organization...
where these photos are all medium quality they are events in my most recent life.
i would ❤❤love to get a macOS app for that desk top that senses movement in the kitchen and pulls up random photos off the NAS box
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every so often on my desk top I goto icloud.com and edit my iPhone photos.
-icloud.com has not been kept up to date, the web site is dated clumsy so it could be better
-it gives me a bigger perspective of the photos my iPhone as accumulated
-organizes the items by date it which helps
-first i delete
-next i down load the keepers onto a home Drobo NAS box
-next i upload refresh the photos/video i want to keep in my iPhone
none of this tech is going away soon. Just a little bit of organization...
where these photos are all medium quality they are events in my most recent life.
i wouldlove to get a macOS app for that desk top that senses movement in the kitchen and pulls up random photos off the NAS box
I might be missing something here but what’s that got to do with the OP’s question?
On a 128GB iPad, I get that message when free space drops below 20% (~25GB). I received that same message on a 512GB iPad when I still had 50GB free space.
I dunno if Apple requires a GB or % free space minimum (or maybe a combination of both depending on capacity).
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Thank you, I was just wondering the same - where is the relevance to the topic please?
I am still not sure I understand this. I have 'optimise iPhone storage' switched on for photos and I have 25GB free on my 64GB phone (which is absolutely loads).
Why does it say 'paused' and 'not enough storage'? Not enough storage for what/where?? Paused would suggest it means paused from syncing with iCloud but there is no reason why. The existing photos are already taking up the storage on the phone they are taking, and aside from that I have 25GB free. In iCloud I have loads of free space for photos, so where exactly is the problem?
I can continue to take pictures as normal which over time will continue to fill up a proportion of my remaining 25GB so what task doesn't my phone not have enough space for exactly?
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It doesn't make sense though. Also why would it pause from syncing with iCloud? It has loads of spare space on the handset and loads of spare space in iCloud. I have 25GB free which is loads when you consider that some iPhones have 32GB capacity in total.
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Why does it say 'paused' and 'not enough storage'? Not enough storage for what/where?? Paused would suggest it means paused from syncing with iCloud but there is no reason why. The existing photos are already taking up the storage on the phone they are taking, and aside from that I have 25GB free. In iCloud I have loads of free space for photos, so where exactly is the problem?
I can continue to take pictures as normal which over time will continue to fill up a proportion of my remaining 25GB so what task doesn't my phone not have enough space for exactly?
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It doesn't make sense though. Also why would it pause from syncing with iCloud? It has loads of spare space on the handset and loads of spare space in iCloud. I have 25GB free which is loads when you consider that some iPhones have 32GB capacity in total.
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As mentioned, it gave the same message on my 512GB iPad with 50GB free space which is bigger than the entire capacity of some iOS devices still being sold today.
It's quite possible Apple's doing it for performance reasons. I personally over provision my PC's SSDs so there's always ~15-20% unused. Apple can't control other data your store on your device but this one, they could make it behave as they would like.
All you can do is report to Apple. I sent feedback on this a couple years ago (on iOS 10).
That said, I do have iCloud Photos set to "Download and Keep Originals". One would think if it's set to "Optimize iPhone Storage", Apple would be happy to continue syncing to free up local storage on the device.
Yeah I totally get what you are saying, but the photos app under iPhone storage on my phone is showing as using 999.2MB with all of the full res files being stored in iCloud. So with that in mind what task could the photos app want to run in the background that needs 25GB+?
I think it needs a call to Apple as it doesn’t seem right.
iOS.
Again, I suspect it's not for the Photos app itself but rather it limits syncing when free space goes below a set amount for general system performance.
I've already complained to Apple about this. Maybe if more people complained, they'd lower the free space requirements.
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I understand the OP's frustration but the easiest way out is
tidy up the 5,000 images you have.
buy more iCloud space and or move the images or a portion of the images to a new home.
Apple wants you to buy more iCloud and actually it is not expensive.
tidy up the 5,000 images you have.
buy more iCloud space and or move the images or a portion of the images to a new home.
Apple wants you to buy more iCloud and actually it is not expensive.
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It's not iCloud that's the issue, it's local storage.
Immediate solution to get it syncing again is to delete stuff on the iPhone or buy a high enough capacity model so that one uses less than 80% of capacity.
Long term is submit feedback to Apple and hope they change iCloud Photos policy/behavior.
iCloud photos does need a certain amount of free space on the device for uploading (the upload needs to be cached on the iPhone as part of the upload process), but this seems excessive.
Apple Support may be needed, but you could try a few things first....
Force-close the Photos app then restart the iPhone
Keep the iPhone connected to both wifi and power for at least a few hours, preferably overnight.
Check the Photos app every so often, to see if it begins to give you an option to un-pause .
Apple Support may be needed, but you could try a few things first....
Force-close the Photos app then restart the iPhone
Keep the iPhone connected to both wifi and power for at least a few hours, preferably overnight.
Check the Photos app every so often, to see if it begins to give you an option to un-pause .
Update: After viewing the iPhone storage within settings a few times, the bar that shows how much of your phone storage is used up started to move around a bit and then when I went back to the photos app it said restoring photos (which was a bit concerning). Then it finished, I had 10 additional photos added to the total (these must have been from a while back as they weren't any of the latest ones) and it now no longer says I don't have enough storage. Seems like it was some sort of bug.