# Transferring photos from iPhone and iPad to external storage

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-photos-from-iphone-and-ipad-to-external-storage/761637 "2016-08-03T14:56:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transferring-photos-from-iphone-and-ipad-to-external-storage/761637/21 "2016-08-15T18:36:40Z")

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> [@Dante\_G](#):
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> Hmmm, so, ok, if she goes online to the The Cloud and she can see all the pictures she has saved on the cloud, would it be safe for her to go ahead and delete them from her phone?

If you turn on the correct setting, iCloud and the Photos app work in conjunction to manage the free space on the device. The device only keeps so many recent photos on it in hi res and has quick previews of the rest. Again, the goal of the Apple ecosystem is that you are not supposed to need or want to manage the actual location of files with any granularity. If you can roll with that, it works well.

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