Best way to keep photos

[wolfpackfan]

Okay, I have been using iCloud Photo Library since it was released and have 28,867 photos on it and 1,432 videos. I am constantly having memory issues on my 64GB iPhone 6+ as well as my 32GB iPad mini. On the mini, I just removed IPL and have the pictures on My Photo Stream. Plan to purchase a new iPhone 8 when it comes out and it is sounding like the base configuration will be 64GB. I am going to be stretched getting the base model, so moving up to the next storage level is out of the question. Guess I'm thinking when I get the iPhone 8, not using IPL on it. So I guess I'm trying to figure out how would I store my photos out on iCloud for backup.

Is it best to just copy my pictures over by syncing through iTunes periodically and then upload the pictures thru Photos on my Mac? Or do I turn My Photo Stream on and somehow capture them that way to upload to IPL on my Mac? Kind of confusing the relationship between IPL and Photo Stream. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sorry this was so long.

 

[fastbagger]

What about using Google Photos?

 

[IGI2]

wolfpackfan, I have the very same problem. Maybe it's not so harsh right now, but as of now, I don't see Apple's solution to, for example, 500 GB Photo/Video Library on 64GB or even 128 GB device. Even though through ICPL only smaller versions are kept, it's still a lot. Even with optimized option.

As our library are growing bigger, there should be:
a) option to have access only to last 2 years (there would be a slider to set)
b) adding really small thumbnails for older (2years+) photos and then downloading full quality (as of now, thumbnails are so small after all)
c) in three years time - option to convert JPEG/MOVs to HEIC/MOVs(HEVC) with a little warning box that converting lossy JPGs to HEIC may results in a decreased quality.

Because right now, 2 TB in iCloud doesn't do much, your phone is still filled with thumbs of everything and you have no control over what should stay in full quality.