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Dave and the team discuss Zuckerberg will be answering questions before the European Parliament, malicious voice commands in music, Spotify hateful content policy, vehicle infotainment systems, Word and AI, ZTE and the US Government, Kaspersky and Dutch security, and more.

Karl in Rapid City, South Dakota listens to the Podcast and asked: "Apple seems to think you want every picture you've ever taken on your iPhone. Just exactly what is the best way to get just a couple photos on your iPhone and the rest of them on your iCloud storage instead of trying to put everything on your iPhone?"

 

Karl, iCloud backs up your pictures and plenty of other things on your phone, and it works along with newer phones to optimize the amount of room those pictures use up, but it doesn’t give you options as to how to set up that storage.

If you delete a picture off the phone, iCloud will notice it and get rid of it online too. If you want to be able to store pictures remotely and delete them from your phone, you will have to use a different storage solution.

The good news here is that there are plenty of free options. Dropbox, Google, Flickr, and plenty of others will jump at the chance of storing your pictures for you, since that’s how they get a lot of their users, from people who keep running out of room on their phones.

There is one pretty annoying way of just using iCloud to do it too, but it’s not how iCloud is designed to be used and it will be a clunky workaround. You can save them to a folder in iCloud Drive, then delete them from your Photos app. That should work, but again, it won’t be seamless or easy. You’re expected to store documents in iCloud Drive, not photos you just took, so the workflow isn’t very natural.

 

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