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.
This of course begs the question “What happens if I Turn Off iCloud on my iPhone?”
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.
One question we ran across in our research was “Does turning off iCloud Photo’s delete photos in Camarata roll?”.
If you only have the one device or you sign out of i. Cloud for images, then Apple holds your images in the cloud for 30 days, so you can simply reconnect and the images will still be there. Turning off icloud photo’s will not delete the photo’s in your camara roll because the photos located in that folder are taken by your device.
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.
Settings ➔ Apple ID (Top) ➔ i. Cloud ➔ Storage ➔ i. Cloud ➔ Manage Storage ➔ i. Cloud Photo Library ➔ Disable and Deleteon a mobile device or you will disable and delete (after 30 days) the photo library in the cloud. Settings ➔ Apple ID (Top) ➔ i. Cloud ➔ Apps Using i. Cloud ➔ Photos ➔ i. Cloud Photos library ➔ Off on a mobile device or.