iPad iCloud Photos & Photo Stream? Save storage?

[Confuzzeled23]

Hey everyone,

Can you use iCloud photo on the iPhone and Photo Stream on the iPad?

My photo library goes back to early 2000s and even with iCloud Photo on it takes up 17 GB when enabled on my iPad which only has 64 GB. It would be great if Apple allowed you to limit iCloud library on a certain device back 1 year or whatnot. Therefore I’m wondering if you can just use photo stream on the iPad? I currently have iCloud photo turned off on the iPad and photo stream turned on. However I don’t see the option to also enable photo stream on the iPhone as iCloud photo is on.

Any suggestions?

Additionally, I’m going on a trip so I’m making room on my iPad to download shows & movies. Why is the empty photos app 6 GB in size??

 

[BB1970]

Photo Stream (and not cloud photo) works on iPad. You just won’t get any videos uploaded as photo steam only takes photos. But I believe photo steam only works for the past 30 days of photos. For longer you need to use cloud photos.

 

[Confuzzeled23]

Photo Stream (and not cloud photo) works on iPad. You just won’t get any videos uploaded as photo steam only takes photos. But I believe photo steam only works for the past 30 days of photos. For longer you need to use cloud photos.

Thanks. I understand. But I’ve had it on for a week. iPad as photo stream and my iPhone as iCloud photo and the iPad photo stream remains empty. I don’t see a toggle to enable it on iPhone as I have iCloud photo on.

 

[BB1970]

Thanks. I understand. But I’ve had it on for a week. iPad as photo stream and my iPhone as iCloud photo and the iPad photo stream remains empty. I don’t see a toggle to enable it on iPhone as I have iCloud photo on.

Oh I misunderstood. Good question. Yeah I don’t see the toggle here either when cloud photo is on. I guess that’s Apple’s subtle way of “upgrading“ ya to the cloud services. In your particular case, perhaps using something like Dropbox would be better solution? Though, not ideal as it’s not as integrated. I’m no help here. As far as the 6gb empty photo size, I’m gonna chalk that up “system data” that’s accumulated. The bane of my existence especially when dealing with large video files.

 

[Shirasaki]

Instead of storing actual photos, iOS stores thumbnails of photos that are yet to be downloaded, and stream videos as you watch it. My photo library is 220GB, and after enabling optimised storage, it takes 13.32GB.

I have never used photo stream.