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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1917635" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>You've not said how much storage your phone has, or how much it says your photos are taking. But, at some point, you started to run out of storage, so the Phone started to unload memory by moving the images to the Cloud, then replacing them on the Phone with a reference to the cloud location, saving space on the phone. That is what "Optimize iPhone Storage," which is checked, does. Now, when you are indicating you want to stop the sync process, it's telling you that if you do that, the links on the phone will stop working and the photos will, effectively, be deleted from the phone. So, it is offering to you that before you do that, you can download all of those linked photos to the Phone. If you have space for them, you can do that, then delete on the Phone the ones you don't want there, then delete them again from Recently Deleted and recover that storage. The images will still be in the cloud because you have turned off sync. </p><p></p><p>Or, you can go ahead and let them be deleted on the phone, recover the storage, then use the download process from iCloud to get all of the images as a zip file, as I described earlier, then select the images you DO want on the iPhone and put them there. That will be a painful process because the only way I can think to get them to the iPhone with your old Mac is to email them and then open the email on the phone and save them to Photos on the phone, a few at a time.</p><p></p><p>I've asked Ian, (IWT) to chime in here. He's the go-to for most things to do with photos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1917635, member: 396914"] You've not said how much storage your phone has, or how much it says your photos are taking. But, at some point, you started to run out of storage, so the Phone started to unload memory by moving the images to the Cloud, then replacing them on the Phone with a reference to the cloud location, saving space on the phone. That is what "Optimize iPhone Storage," which is checked, does. Now, when you are indicating you want to stop the sync process, it's telling you that if you do that, the links on the phone will stop working and the photos will, effectively, be deleted from the phone. So, it is offering to you that before you do that, you can download all of those linked photos to the Phone. If you have space for them, you can do that, then delete on the Phone the ones you don't want there, then delete them again from Recently Deleted and recover that storage. The images will still be in the cloud because you have turned off sync. Or, you can go ahead and let them be deleted on the phone, recover the storage, then use the download process from iCloud to get all of the images as a zip file, as I described earlier, then select the images you DO want on the iPhone and put them there. That will be a painful process because the only way I can think to get them to the iPhone with your old Mac is to email them and then open the email on the phone and save them to Photos on the phone, a few at a time. I've asked Ian, (IWT) to chime in here. He's the go-to for most things to do with photos. [/QUOTE]
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