After disabling iCloud Photos. I found out the iCloud backup can’t really back up the photos & videos

[u/Ok_Penalty_7761]

My iPhone 7 Plus got like 2GB of photos and videos, I turned off the iCloud Photos, downloaded all original photos and videos to album, and turn on the Camera Roll toogle in the iCloud backup to back up my whole phone, at the end the backup size was only less than 500MB.

After that I reset the phone and restored from iCloud backup, and then I opened the album and it was showing “downloading”.

The iCloud backup just skipped the Camera Roll and downloaded the photos and videos from iCloud Photos when it’s already off, please advise me what to do to completely move them to iCloud backup?

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[u/gripe_and_complain]

My guess is that the storage location of the camera roll data is always in the same place, regardless of how it was stored (via backup or photo sync)

[u/Ok_Penalty_7761 → u/gripe_and_complain]

Now if I delete all the things iCloud Photos, I probably can’t get them back anymore from my iCloud backup.