To summarize, turning off i. Cloud Photos will not delete existing photos from i, and cloud. However, they may be deleted from i, phone/i Pad depending on the above two settings. If you accidentally turn off i. Cloud Photos, don’t worry for your data is safe on i. Cloud even if it disappears from your i, phone/i, and pad.
What happens when you turn on iCloud Photos?
When you turn on i. Cloud Photos, all of your photos and videos are copied to i. Cloud and form a large library on Apple servers., keeping i Cloud Photos enabled on your i. Phone may quickly drain the 5 GBs of free i. Cloud storage provided by Apple.
Another common inquiry is “What happens when you turn off iCloud Photo Library?”.
Some believe that when you turn off the i. Cloud photo library using the Disable and Delete option, you will notice that the i. Cloud photo library is still on but you actually have nothing to worry about., your i Cloud photos will be automatically turned off after 30 days. What will happen if I delete an image while i. Cloud is turned off?
If the photos are on your Mac (i. e. they aren’t optimised ) and you turn off i. Cloud Photo Library, the photos will remain on your Mac and in the cloud, but new photos, edits and deletions will no longer sync between them. And if I Disable and Delete ICloud photo library in my I6 phone and Ipad this will remove all photos on these too?
How do I Turn Off iCloud photo synchronization?
, tap i, and cloud., toggle i Cloud Photos to the Off position. This will download all images from the i. Cloud Photo Library onto your device before disabling the synchronization going forward.
What happens if I Turn Off iCloud on my iPhone?
If you turn off i. Cloud on your i. Phone only, all of the photos in your i. Phone will remain. You can also access your photos on the connected devices or on i, and cloud. But, a newly taken image will no longer be saved on i, and cloud. Turn off i. Cloud photo library on all your devices.
How to delete photos from iCloud?
First, you can do it for a single device — the one that you are using (photos stored in i. Cloud will not be removed ) and secondly, you turn it off completely for all the connected devices (pictures stored in i. Cloud will be removed). Both differ completely, and you need to be careful while using each of them.