Your photos will not be removed from i. Cloud or other connected devices if you delete any photo on your i. Phone while the i. Cloud photo library is turned off. But once you turn on the i. Cloud photo library, that particular image will be deleted from i. Cloud and other connected devices.
If you turn off i. Cloud on your i. Phone only, all of the photos in your i. Phone will remain. You can also access your photos on the connected devices or on i, and cloud. But, a newly taken image will no longer be saved on i, and cloud. Turn off i. Cloud photo library on all your devices.
Other photos in i. Cloud will remain there forever. When you turned it off did you say to delete the photos from your phone, or to keep them? When you turn i. Cloud Photos back on they will download from i. Cloud, but only when you have a Wi-Fi connection, and the amount of time this will take depends on your connection speed.
How to turn off iCloud Photo Library?
There are two ways on how you can turn off the i. Cloud photo library. You can either turn it off in one device only or you can turn it off in all your devices. These two ways are completely different from one another thus, you have to be very careful in using any of the two.
To turn off i. Cloud Photo Library on all your devices, open the i. Cloud pane of System Preferences, click the Manage button, then click Photo Library. Click “Disable and delete.” Your photos and videos will be deleted from i. Cloud Photo Library in 30 days, unless you click Undo Delete before that time.