Deleting photos from phone without deleting from iCloud?

[stanw]

I want to move photos into iCloud Photo but remove them from my iPhone so they are no longer taking up storage. When I delete the photos from All Photos it seems to also remove them from iCloud. How can I put photos into iCloud and delete them from my phone without removing them from iCloud?

Thanks.

 

[lordofthegins]

Pretty sure you can’t

I wish they’d build on these types of controls. For one, id like to have a “camera roll” on the iPhone that doesn’t sync to iCloud unless I add it to an album.

 

[sunapple]

You can change your settings on your iPhone to only save previews of photos locally and remove downloads of photos when storage gets too full. Optimize iPhone storage under Settings > Photos.

This way you'll see all photos on your iPhone as previews and it only downloads those photos when you click them.

 

[Peepo]

Apple needs to make an iCloud Photos Archive or change the way they store pictures. When dealing with tens or hundreds of GB of photos now they REALLY need to get rid of the idea of "let's throw ***EVERY PHOTO*** in your photos library no matter what it is.. ya let's throw those pics of your wife/girlfriend wearing her new lingerie (or maybe nothing LOL) along with kids' soccer game photos... so when you are showing photos to friends and family on your 65" TV via airplay to AppleTV those out of context photos could potentially just be the next ones in a moment or collection to pop up for all to see!

Sure you can make albums, but they are just links and the photos always stay in photos library which everyone pretty much looks at because who makes an album for every photo they take?

Having different photos albums would be a good start... put away your private photos there and have ability to hide or require passcode to enter it.