Iphone pictures storage strategy

[maerz001]

I have an 128GB iphone and running out of storage.

There are about 80GB of pictures that i want to reduce.

Since i don’t want to pay apple 200GB icloud i back up my phone on my MBP.

Since this syncs with the picture folder i have decade old pictures on my iphone i don’t need. It would be fine if just the last maybe 2 years are stored on the phone. But all on my mac.

Whats the best strategy?

 

[NoBoMac]

Since just syncing with Mac, simple.

Sync the pics that are on the Phone but not in Photos on Mac to the Mac. Turn off photo syncing for the phone: that should wipe all photos off the phone. Re-enable sync and select albums you want to sync in the sync options. Might be able to create a smart album that has a filter for date ("All photos since <date here>") and just sync that. Not sure since...

I keep my Photos library on an external SSD and is only plugged in when doing Photos stuff. Because of that, I've exported a few handfuls of pictures (family) and put them in a folder under Pictures and I sync that folder which is always available. So that's another option: make a folder of images, update that occasionally, and sync it to the phone.

 

[HDFan]

If you care about your photos make sure to implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

 

[ignatius345]

If you care about your photos make sure to implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy.

Amen to that. I am all in on iCloud, but I still make sure my Mac is set to download every photo completely (Optimize Storage is off) and then from there the Mac makes multiple backups of everything. I guess it sounds paranoid, but I've been taking digital photos for over 20 years now and they're irreplacable.

 

[maerz001]

So for now i could reduce quite a bit the number of pictures. The smart album did help. Thanks. I do backup on a ssd.

Now another problem: a lot of pictures are on the mac and iphone duplicates. The iphone doesn’t have them yet in the duplicates folder.
On the mac i first have to update to ventura to see if it will find them

 

[maerz001]

So after ventura update the fotos app found about 6000 duplicats. I merged them all but there are still many more.

Neither in ios nor macos the duplicate folder shows up after a week of potential picture scanning.
Any ideas?
If i have a close look at the pictures they have a bit different tone but definitely same frame and time stamp.

Not sure if they come from icloud which i had activated for a couple of months and bad syncing.