Here’s a dirty secret: uploading lots of photos to iCloud eats internet like a hungry hippo. If you’re on a slow connection, your photos will just sit there, looking at you smugly.
I’ve waited ten minutes for one video of my dog chasing a leaf. Ten minutes! That’s like a century in internet-time. You can practically watch your battery drain in real-time.
Pro tip: Plug your phone in and connect to strong Wi-Fi before bed. Let the cloud feast while you dream. Unless you have a data cap. Then maybe don’t upload 4K videos of your sourdough starter.
The "Why Are Photos Still On My Phone?" Mystery
You’ll check your phone after iCloud uploads, and surprise—the photos are still there. That is totally normal. Scary, but normal. iCloud doesn’t delete originals from your phone automatically. It just copies them.
If you want to free up space, you have to manually delete them. But then they disappear from the cloud too. Poof. Gone like your motivation to go to the gym.
This is the part where Apple gets a little sneaky. They call it "offloading," but I call it "the photo dance." You delete, it syncs, you gasp. Then you realize you can re-download anything from the cloud later. Phew.
