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infinityandbeyond75 t1_ja5l6lz wrote

Reply to does icloud store your video footage if its deleted off your phone? by alivardz

They best way to look at iCloud is that it’s a synchronizing service, not a backup. What you do on iCloud does the same on the iPhone. What you do on the iPhone happens on iCloud. One thing you can do is choose the option to optimize photos on the phone so not as much storage is needed. If you really want to offload pics then you’ll want to save them to like Google photos or use something like Dropbox.

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whitehusky t1_ja5kmjo wrote

Reply to comment by alivardz in does icloud store your video footage if its deleted off your phone? by alivardz

Yeah the purpose of iCloud Photo Library is to allow you to have a large library all accessible from all your devices. If you have iCloud Photo Library on, and the setting to NOT store originals, you’ll achieve your original goal though. It will store only thumbnails on your iPhone, with originals in the cloud. I will LOOK like all your photos and videos are on your device, but they aren’t. It will intelligently use space to keep original copies of ones it thinks you’ll want to look at (like favorites). It will also free up space as needed as well. So you may see a large amount of space used by Photos, but as you need more space, it will intelligently free that space up on its own. In other words, turn on iCloud Photo Library, set it to not store originals on device, and it will free up space as you need more for other stuff. Then if you go to use a photo/video that’s in the cloud, you’ll see a low res version for a few seconds, until it downloads the full version from the cloud (and a little circular download status indicator).

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assault_is_eternal t1_ja5gib3 wrote

Reply to Just moved to IPhone after a Decade on Android - Here is what I like… and don’t by ContractorCarrot

My work phone is a Galaxy.

Swipe down twice and there's a power button. You can shut down or restart.

You generally have a choice to show or hide characters in a password field on Android, whereas the iPhone WILL NEVER ALLOW IT. There have been times when I can't copy/paste from my password manager, forcing me to manually type in my 30+ character Apple ID password while praying that I didn't make a mistake. C'mon Apple, you're making responsible people suffer to protect others that probably use "Password#1" for every website

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Lunky7711 t1_ja5ggca wrote

Reply to If you noticed your iPhone is charging a little slower it may be due to a new setting Apple added in iOS 16.1 — Clean Energy Charging. With it turned on, iOS will only recharge the iPhone's battery when the electrical grid uses cleaner energy sources like solar or wind. by RonSwazy

When billionaires stop flying private and scale down to owning no more than 4 homes and when India and China start complying with national climate agreements then I'll slow down the charging of my battery. Until then [Off].

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HarryBalsaque t1_ja5fmt2 wrote

Reply to comment by IamCrimsonX in Is the Dynamic Island here to stay? by PM_CTD

I thought I’d love it for music, like changing songs or pause/play, but to be honest I still either find myself swiping from the top right corner to switch songs from the now playing box, or just using my AirPods.

I wish I used it more, but old habits are hard to kill.

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IamCrimsonX t1_ja5fanj wrote

Reply to Is the Dynamic Island here to stay? by PM_CTD

Ngl I’m a casual but I think I’ve used it twice and I’ve owned my 14PM since the day it launched. It’s cool but something if removed I wouldn’t care and I think most people wouldn’t.

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