Apple does not delete iCloud photos if you don’t connect to it every 180 days, that’s for iCloud device backups only. The solution to it supposedly being unrel

Apple does not delete iCloud photos if you don’t connect to it every 180 days, that’s for iCloud device backups only. The solution to it supposedly being unreliable would be to make it reliable, not invent workarounds. You’d still be unhappy if the service allowed local storage and the cloud service was unreliable. This is just not the kind of business Apple is in.