Trying to Understand iCloud Photo Storage

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Tiangou wrote:
Never ever depend on iCloud to store your invaluable photos.

It's not reliable primary storage. It's not a reliable backup.

Use Image Capture or Photos to copy the entire collection to a Mac before you go messing around with offloading to iCloud.

My son does not have a computer. yep, he's one of those iPhone users.