
You should first have a look at the “Animated” and “Long Exposure” albums that iOS created for you. You will then have to remove all the duplicates per hand. Instead, the OS will duplicate all the pictures right away. If you select many pictures and have one of those in there, the context menu “duplicate as still photo” will not be shown. Live-pictures can be edited with an effect, to bounce, loop and blur a long exposure for example.So if your live-photo was in an album, the duplicated picture will not be there. That said, the duplication doesn’t retain the album link.The duplicated picture contains all the same meta-data so you will find it at the exact same place if you sort per date or geo-location for instance.The bad part is: the storage space is not freed up right away. The good part is: you can still recover them for 30 days. First of all, the pictures are not deleted right away, they land in the “Deleted” album.I tested this on about 80 live pictures-so-far and found a few good and not so good side effects: Select the same pictures again (that’s why it is important to be in the live photos album).
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I though I had removed all the Live-Photos. I certainly have a few videos to delete, but my focus is elsewhere. And by “I”, I mean my kids who love to browse old videos from time to time.

I personally have a few backup scenarios in place, among which an automatic backup to my Synology NAS, to Google Pictures and an external hard-drive, so I want to keep on iCloud only the videos I would like to access from my phone at any moment. One of those can easily take up dozens if not hundreds of megabytes of storage.

The first action should be to deleting a few videos. So how do we clean this up? Always delete videos first! ICloud Storage Overview - Media Types OverviewĪs you can see on the picture above, I have 239 videos and 4345 live-photos (mini-videos) and what you cannot see are the 7.000 “simple pictures” on top of that.
