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BlazingGold Actually I have another question, since most of you are much more knowledgeable than I am lol. Basically what I want is to have my thousands of photos stored on my phone and my icloud available to edit/print/upload to a comp whenever I want. Ideally, I would like to delete them from the phone whenever I want so that I don't use up all of my 64gb with old photos. I want them stored in the cloud, but don't want to have to keep them all on my phone to do so. With icloud backup and cloud backup in general, it is dependent on my backing up to iCloud consistently and would have to keep all of these photos on my phone and then would not be available to print from a computer unless I stick with that updated, current iCloud backup. I guess the best solution for me would be to buy a device such as "mycloud" that stores to a hard drive as well as the cloud ?
It sounds like any of the cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, OneDrive or Google Drive would work. They all offer varying levels of free storage. And I believe the iOS apps for each of these can be set to automatically upload to the cloud so when you delete them from the Photos app, they will still be safe in the cloud. And each of those services has a Windows and Mac counterpart that will automatically download anything you add to the cloud to your computer's hard dive.
Apple's iCloud Photo Library is another choice once it's out of beta and the Mac and Windows parts orbit are released. It will give you the option of keeping the originals on the phone and the cloud or keeping smaller versions of the photo optimized for the phone while the cloud will have the full size original. You can turn in the ups portion of this but the Mac and Windows sides aren't out yet.
