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I'm pretty sure that iCloud stores the full version and downloads a lower quality optimised version to your phone. If you open iPhone settings and browse to:
by InsomniacL 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that iCloud stores the full version and downloads a lower quality optimised version to your phone.
If you open iPhone settings and browse to:
> Apple ID > iCloud > Photos
There is an option to 'Optimise iPhone Storage' which is enabled by default. This states:
> If your phone is low on space, full resolution photos and videos are automatically replaced with smaller device sized versions. Full-Resolution versions can be downloaded from iCloud at any time.
This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
- Nextgrid 3y agoDownloads should still return the original file though, so that can't be used to explain the storage size discrepancy.
- jonathanlydall 3y agoThere are two kinds of download options on the iCloud website, the “full quality” (e.g. HEIC file for photos) or a “quick” / “small” download which is a JPG.
- fuckyah 3y ago[dead]
- wideroots 3y agoThis doesn't explain the case when the author uploaded and downloaded a new file, and there was no big diff in file size. The file size diff only seems to be happening to the author's older video files.
- InsomniacL 3y agoIt does explain it and likely adds more weight to it too. Encoding additional videos takes a lot of processing power. When you upload a video to youtube, the higher-quality versions aren't available for sometime. There is likely a queuing system, maybe even a minimum weight time before a video is processed.
- s3p 3y agoThis isn't related. This deals with the storage on the phone, which you can find in Settings > Manage storage. It has nothing to do with the storage in the cloud.