Hi, apologies if this has been answered already. I imagine it has but I couldn't quite find the same issue upon searching the forum. Please link me to an old post if so.
My issue:
I have 13,000+ photos going back almost 20 years, all backed up to iCloud (w/ the 200gb storage upgrade).
I currently have a new iPhone 12 and I'd like to only have recent photos (i.e. photos I've taken with this phone) on it. However I'd also like it to automatically back these up to iCloud.
I'm not interested in having instant access to any of my old photos on my iPhone, either at full res or optimised. However, regardless which mixture of settings I change (and I've tried plenty) - every now and again I'll see that all of a sudden, all 13,000+ of my old photos are suddenly on my iPhone again, and have filled up the storage (64gb). How can I ensure this doesn't happen in the future, once and for all?
**In short** I want the iCloud backup to be a one-way system: for photos i take with my phone to automatically backup to my iCloud, but I never want older photos from iCloud to appear back on my phone.
Any help would be hugely appreciated, before i have to take this into an Apple Store and speak to a Genius.
My issue:
I have 13,000+ photos going back almost 20 years, all backed up to iCloud (w/ the 200gb storage upgrade).
I currently have a new iPhone 12 and I'd like to only have recent photos (i.e. photos I've taken with this phone) on it. However I'd also like it to automatically back these up to iCloud.
I'm not interested in having instant access to any of my old photos on my iPhone, either at full res or optimised. However, regardless which mixture of settings I change (and I've tried plenty) - every now and again I'll see that all of a sudden, all 13,000+ of my old photos are suddenly on my iPhone again, and have filled up the storage (64gb). How can I ensure this doesn't happen in the future, once and for all?
**In short** I want the iCloud backup to be a one-way system: for photos i take with my phone to automatically backup to my iCloud, but I never want older photos from iCloud to appear back on my phone.
Any help would be hugely appreciated, before i have to take this into an Apple Store and speak to a Genius.