When I share a photo from my photos app does it download a full resolution copy and send thru iMessage?
I have optimize iPhone storage selected.
I have optimize iPhone storage selected.
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ericwn
macrumors G5
Yes. Alternatively you could also send an iCloud link from the app to give them limited access temporarily.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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This is a good trick!
Change your setting to download and keep originals. After iCloud sync all the photos and the download is all completed in photos app. Change it to optimized iPhone storage. The high quality photos will remain under a high resolution without taking space on your iPhone.
rui no onna
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You just wasted bandwidth downloading the originals unnecessarily...
Download and keep originals will use a lot of storage on your device. If you then enable Optimize, it will offload the full quality images (typically starting with the older/unused ones) if the device needs more space. There's no way you get to keep high quality originals on your device while taking up very little space.
Can't have your cake and eat it, too.
zorinlynx
macrumors G3
It does a pretty good job of optimizing, too. You really don't have to worry about it.
Generally if you're an average user that takes a decent quantity of photos, the last few weeks of photos will still have the originals on your phone and it won't have to get anything from the cloud to view or send them. For me, I only get the iCloud download icon when I'm working with a photo I took more than a couple of months ago.
I have a 256GB 11 Pro Max and Photos is only using about 2.5GB of space on the phone for a 250GB library in iCloud.
rui no onna
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Still not hiccup free though. I've had times when I get the exclamation point when trying to download full quality photos. It's also problematic when you're at some place with poor internet.
On my main devices at least, I always use Download and Keep Originals. We don't take a lot of pictures though. My photo library is just around 35GB, I think.
Very handy when you've got small storage, though. My mom and dad only had 32GB iPhones before so I had Optimize enabled for them.