OP: BAIL on storing 90K photos in iCloud. Even if you "needed" to flip through all of them but gave each only 1 second per view, you'd need more time than a brand new battery could supply.
- If you haven't done so already, import ALL of them into a Mac (Photos) app. Once they are there,
- turn OFF iCloud Photos.
- If you want some favorite photos with you on device at all times, make some Photo Albums in Photos and synch them to your iDevice.
- If you legit need all 90K always available at all times (which is almost never the case in this kind of situation), buy yourself a NAS box, own your own cloud and put them in that cloud. Bill yourself $0/month for rent to that cloud.
Lastly, use Time Machine, Super Duper, Carbon Copy Cloner or similar to BACK UP that Mac, ideally to at least 2 drives (one stored offsite and regularly rotated with the other), so your risk of completely losing your photo collection falls to near nill. Fire-flood-theft are all real things and one store of personal media like photos is
DANGEROUS.
Once you bail from renting all that space for photos, you MIGHT be able to step down from renting 1TB iCloud to free iCloud. If not, work on the NEXT big fat cloud data hog, likely also storable on your Mac and probably also able to have favs albums/playlists/etc selectively synched. Or again, put whatever that data/media is in your own NAS 'cloud' and pay yourself $0/month for cloud access to it.
ELSE, pay up for more iCloud... and then bump into the next ceiling eventually and pay up for the next tier... and repeat & repeat. Landlord for your media & data appreciates the monthly rent... forever. 💰💰💰
