05-22-2022, 06:12 PM
iCloud is very reliable if one understands and conforms to what it does.
This is how it would roll your son’s situation:
Sign up for the 50gb plan, go to settings/appleID/icloud/photos, switch on iCloud photos, and wait for iCloud to do its thing.
For another take, go to settings/general/iPhone storage/ and see the recommendations.
I bet the first one will be to enable iCloud photos to save 30gb of local storage.
Offloading unused apps may help too. Info will be there too.
After this is done, do not erase the photos from the phone. iCloud will leave reduced versions of the library, and download full resolution upon request -all transparent to the user.
I will also say that a usb dongle could be connected to the phone, and have the whole library exported to it.
It can be done, and I would do that before the iCloud sync happens, but in the case of your son, nah…
This is how it would roll your son’s situation:
Sign up for the 50gb plan, go to settings/appleID/icloud/photos, switch on iCloud photos, and wait for iCloud to do its thing.
For another take, go to settings/general/iPhone storage/ and see the recommendations.
I bet the first one will be to enable iCloud photos to save 30gb of local storage.
Offloading unused apps may help too. Info will be there too.
After this is done, do not erase the photos from the phone. iCloud will leave reduced versions of the library, and download full resolution upon request -all transparent to the user.
I will also say that a usb dongle could be connected to the phone, and have the whole library exported to it.
It can be done, and I would do that before the iCloud sync happens, but in the case of your son, nah…