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

[kobby2k6]

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 iCloud sync for the time and saw the warning on the 3rd Picture. Can anyone explain if it removes photos/videos synced from iTunes. According to the warning, I can’t sync photos and videos from iTunes or laptop anymore (I use a windows PC and I’m aware finder is referencing syncing via iTunes). I have a few albums that I sync from my Pc and it’s crucial I still have access to them on the iPhone without moving them over to iCloud. Can anyone advise ?

 

[ian87w]

Before anything, backup, backup, backup.

Do you have all your photos and videos on your PC? If so, then just continue and see what happen. Worst case scenario, you just have to reload your photos form your PC. It's simply saying that you can only do either one, iCloud Photo OR iTunes syncing, cannot do both. The message does sound scary, so again, backup, backup, backup. Just in case.

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[kobby2k6]

Before anything, backup, backup, backup.

Do you have all your photos and videos on your PC? If so, then just continue and see what happen. Worst case scenario, you just have to reload your photos form your PC. It's simply saying that you can only do either one, iCloud Photo OR iTunes syncing, cannot do both. The message does sound scary, so again, backup, backup, backup. Just in case.

How to cope with a terrifying iOS Photos deletion warning

If you have iTunes syncing enable and switch to iCloud Photo Library, Apple warns you it's deleting your media.

www.macworld.com

Yes I already backed up everything first before trying this option and thanks for responding. Thanks for the response and I will go ahead and try it.