Understanding how iCloud Photos optimizes photo storage and keeps your originals<article>
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<p>The old saw about one’s eyes being larger than one’s belly surely applies in an era when we can capture multi-megabyte images and gigabyte videos and have infinite storage online—but still have to contend with the size of flash drives in iPhones and iPads and SSDs in Macs.</p><p>Apple squared that circle with iCloud Photos, one of many companies’ attempts to pair cloud storage and personal or professional media capture. With Google Photos, Google stores everything in your cloud account and uses its native and browser-based apps as glimpses into that storage. Apple, in contrast, wants you to have a sort of copy of all your images available offline and online with iCloud Photos.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3568256/understanding-how-icloud-photos-optimizes-photo-storage-and-keeps-your-originals.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Understanding how iCloud Photos optimizes photo storage and keeps your originals
