How to manually control your iPhone's cloud photo storage with Photo StreamWhen Optimize Storage isn't enough to keep your phone from running out of space, you can still use Photo Stream to slim down your iPhone's photo storage.
One of the most frustrating things about iPhone photography is storing said photos: iOS 11 brought with it a new High-Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) that cuts iPhone image sizes in half, but it's still a struggle for 16, 32, and 256GB iPhone users to avoid seeing that dreaded "No more space" error.
iCloud Photo Library does provide an Optimize Storage option that can help by deleting older images locally on your phone after they've been uploaded to iCloud, but there's no way to manually adjust when those photos get deleted; as such, you may still run out of space even after enabling the option.
What are 16, 32, and 256GB owners to do? iMore forum user Johnny Lloyd Rollins suggested a tip that takes advantage of both of Apple's photo sync services — Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Library — to keep your photo collection ...
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How to manually control your iPhone's cloud photo storage with Photo Stream
