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You are running out of storage space on your iPhone, so you decide to delete a few hundred old photos. You assume they are safely stored in iCloud, so your local cleanup is harmless. Unfortunately, this is a classic trap that leads to permanently lost memories. Yes, deleting a photo from your iPhone will immediately delete it from your iCloud storage as well. This is because iCloud Photos is a real-time synchronization service, not a one-way backup vault. Its sole purpose is to make sure your photo library looks exactly the same on your phone, iPad, Mac, and iCloud. If…