ICloud Photo Library allows you to store the full resolution versions of your photos and videos in iCloud and keep a lower resolution, optimized versions on your Mac. Now, let’s move on to other ways to free up some disk space on your MacBook.
We'll show you how to do that later in this article. However, if you’d rather store messages and files on your machine, you can choose only to use iCloud for photos. The first option allows you to store files, photos, and messages in iCloud and keep only recent files and optimized photos on your Mac.