[Edit: I appreciate the responses so far (posting this edit after the first 3), but I don't need solutions for how to decrease my space. Sorry if that wasn't more clear. My question is mainly around Apple's "optimize storage" feature - shouldn't it be doing this for me?]
I have "Optimize iPhone Storage" enabled. For awhile it was behaving fine, only keeping around 2-3gb of photos / videos on my device. Then all of a sudden in the past week it decided to start downloading a lot more, and now it's taking up over 13gb of space, and because of that I'm about out of storage.
If it would actually "optimize" like it says, I would have plenty of space on my 32gb iPhone 7. But it seems extremely unintuitive. At this point, when the system is warning me I have less than 1gb left, it should be pushing photos/vids off the device. But it won't. This happens to me every few months and the only solution is to disable iCloud Photo Library removing all photos / vids from the phone, and then re-enabling it with "optimize" enabled, and then re-syncing it all over again...
Am I missing something or is it simply a poorly executed "feature"??
I have "Optimize iPhone Storage" enabled. For awhile it was behaving fine, only keeping around 2-3gb of photos / videos on my device. Then all of a sudden in the past week it decided to start downloading a lot more, and now it's taking up over 13gb of space, and because of that I'm about out of storage.
If it would actually "optimize" like it says, I would have plenty of space on my 32gb iPhone 7. But it seems extremely unintuitive. At this point, when the system is warning me I have less than 1gb left, it should be pushing photos/vids off the device. But it won't. This happens to me every few months and the only solution is to disable iCloud Photo Library removing all photos / vids from the phone, and then re-enabling it with "optimize" enabled, and then re-syncing it all over again...
Am I missing something or is it simply a poorly executed "feature"??
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