Originally Posted by
Annie_8plus If you have a lot of photos on your phone or saved in texts, you may want to consider using something like Google Photos. It's free and automatically backs up all your photos so you can remove them from your phone. The best part of this is that you can still access them from the Google Photos app from your phone. You'll save a bunch of storage that way.
While the information you provide is accurate and good to know, iCloud Drive itself has nothing to do with photos at all, unless you manually store each photo on it.
I think you confused iCloud Photo Library with iCloud Drive.
iCloud Drive is a storage service provided by Apple within your iCloud account. You can manually store and access maps and files on it.
Disabling it only stops you from accessing and editing those folders and files.