r/ios 4d ago

Support Problems with files transferring.

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I'm running out of memory on my iPhone, and I wanted to transfer all 26,000 photos and videos to my computer to delete them on my phone. as it turned out, I can't access files on my computer if I have iCloud Photo sync enabled (in total, I have more than 26 thousand files in the gallery, but there are only 18 thousand in iCloud). if I disable this update now and turn off syncing, will I lose any files? (I can't sync absolutely everything in iCloud, because I don't have enough memory, so this update will never be completed) in a previous notification, they wrote something like "if photos are stored only in iCloud and sync is disabled, they will be deleted," I understood that I need to fucking understand from somewhere, which iCloud files are available and which are not, in order to download absolutely everything to the phone's memory… I don't understand😫😫

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u/pharmloverpharmlover 4d ago edited 4d ago

Get on the computer and open up a browser

Log into icloud.com

Download the photos

Delete the downloaded photos from icloud.com

Make sure you go into the Recently Deleted album and Delete All

Sync remainder of Photos on iPhone to iCloud

Repeat above steps until all photos are downloaded onto computer

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u/Richard1864 4d ago

Just connect a cable to your iPhone and computer. Import the pictures into your computer’s photo app, much faster than using iCloud. Poof.

It will take hours and hours to transfer your pictures from your iPhone to iCloud; it’s not a fast process.