Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud to Free Up Space

Quick Navigation:

• Transferring photos from iPhone to iCloud Storage
• How to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud storage in 3 Parts
• 1 Tip: Transfer iCloud Photos to Other Clouds for Backup
• FAQs about Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud
• The Epilogue

Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud Storage

iCloud is a built-in cloud sync service designed by Apple Inc. and offers 5GB of free iCloud storage. With iCloud storage, you’re able to access your photos, videos, documents, calendar, notes, contacts, backups, and others and share them with others to collaborate seamlessly.

Therefore, transferring photos from iPhone to iCloud is a common question for all iPhone users to free up iPhone storage if your iPhone storage is full. Now, let’s find out the solutions to moving photos from iPhone to iCloud in the following section.

How to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud storage in 3 Parts

To transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud, there is something you should know:

Now, here we show you two parts about how to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud.

• Part 1. Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud and Keep them on Both
• Part 2. Move Photos from iPhone to iCloud and Delete from iPhone
• Part 3. Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud on PC

Part 1. Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud and Keep them on Both

How to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud and free up space from iPhone? Check and follow the steps below:

1. Ensure you have signed in with the same Apple ID with your iPhone and iCloud.

2. Click Settings on your iPhone to open it.

3. Tap the account name at the very top, choose iCloud > Photos, and toggle on Sync this iPhone to send photos from iPhone to iCloud.

4. Hit Optimize iPhone Storage and all the photos and videos in original formats and resolution will be uploaded to iCloud, and only smaller, device-sized versions will be kept on your iPhone.

Wait for the process to complete. Then you can view all the photos and videos from the Photos tab on the iCloud website.

Part 2. Move Photos from iPhone to iCloud and Delete from iPhone

How to move photos from iPhone to iCloud storage and delete them from iPhone, the steps are quite the same:

1. Sign in to your iPhone and iCloud with the same Apple ID.

2. Head to your iPhone Settings. Tap your Apple name > iCloud > Photos.

3. Toggle off the Sync this iPhone option, and it will pop up a window like the below screenshot, just hit Remove from iPhone.

4. Click Remove from iPhone to confirm, that all the photos and videos will be deleted from your iPhone device, and keep them only on iCloud.

Part 3. Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud on PC

If you would like to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud on PC, please install iCloud for Windows first, then do the following steps to move iCloud Photos to computer:

1. Please log in with your Apple ID in iCloud for Windows on your computer.

2. Click Options behind Photos.

3. Tick iCloud Photos to upload photos from your computer to iCloud, and hit Done.

4. Then click Appy to take effect.

Once set up, your iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos folders will be automatically added to Windows File Explorer. Any photos uploaded to iCloud will show up in the iCloud Photos folder, check and manage them now. You can drag and drop files into these folders to upload files to iCloud Drive as well.

1 Tip: Transfer iCloud Photos to Other Clouds for Backup

Your photos and videos will be automatically uploaded to iCloud once you enable iCloud Photos, but iCloud Backup doesn't take a backup copy for you, so it's highly recommended to backup your iPhone photo library with iCloud Backup or transfer iCloud Photos to other clouds directly, like Google Photos, OneDrive, MEGA, etc to create a backup copy. However, iCloud only provides 5GB of free storage space, which can be run out quickly. Thus, transferring iCloud Photos to other clouds is feasible.

The powerful web-based multi-cloud manager - MultCloud is your best choice right now. With it, you can get the following benefits:

Here let's transfer iCloud Photos to OneDrive for example with MultCloud:

1. Please sign up for a free MultCloud account, and then sign in.

2. Select Add Cloud on the left, and choose iCloud Photos and OneDrive to add correspondingly.

3. Hit Cloud Transfer under Common Tools, hit FROM to choose iCloud Photos, and hit TO to select OneDrive.

4. Click the Transfer Now button to quickly migrate iCloud Photos to OneDrive.

FAQs about Transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud

Delete photos from iPhone are they still on iCloud?

If you delete photos and videos from your iPhone, all the related photos and videos will be deleted on iCloud and other devices as well if you enable iCloud Photos and Sync this iPhone option. Same for editing photos and videos.

Is there any other way to make more available space for iPhone

You can go to iPhone Settings, tap your Apple name > iCloud > Manage Storage, then disable the items that take up a lot of space, and hit Disable & Delete to clear space for your iPhone.

The Epilogue

How to move photos from iPhone to iCloud easily if your iPhone storage gets full? Just follow the detailed steps to transfer photos from iPhone to iCloud to free up space. To clear iPhone storage space and want to keep all the optimized photos and videos, just enable Optimize iPhone Storage in iCloud Photos. If you want to transfer Photos from iPhone to iCloud and keep them only on iCloud, you have to disable iCloud Photos and remove them from iPhone.

To manage iPhone storage, you can delete photos from iPhone but not iCloud to make more room for other files. Moving files between clouds is a piece of cake for the MultCloud web app or the extension.