ICloud , Photos, memory iphone full

All,
I have iCloud enabled on my Mac and iPhone. But now my memory on my iphone 5 is full. How can I select a subset of my iphoto lib on my iphone to clear memory?
Any suggestion appreciated,
Bart

I have the same issue, even with buying storage from Apple for the new Photos app. What I have done is turn off all photo options in settings/iCloud/photos. Connect to wi-fi and they all will be cleared from your phone (it took mine overnight to clear), then turn back on the options and you will be ok...for a little while. I was down to 5MB free, did this trick and 2 weeks ago (it worked), and had the memory fill up again. I did this trick again yesterday and now have 5GB free.
I need to know how to keep this memory free indefinitely.

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iCloud Photo Library is in beta (with good reason) and there are a limited number of slots open to users. When you turned off iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone, you opened up a slot for another user. There is nothing you can do other than check from time to time to see if there is now an open slot available for you to re-enable the feature. However, given the trouble many users are experiencing with the service, it's probably not a bad idea to wait until at least iOS 8.1 is released.

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So, two days ago I took the plunge and activated iCloud Photos, primarily for the backup, but also for consistency across devices. When I flipped the switch, my iPhone warned me that all photos would be remove (I'd read about this). I said "OK", thinking I'd have access on my phone to all the photos in the iCloud photo library.
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Go to iCloud.com on a computer. To see them on your iPhone go to iCloud.com in Safari. Tap the URL field. Pull favorites down and tap request desktop site. Sign into your iCloud account. Now you can view iCloud Drive or Photos if you turned on iCloud Photo library.

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around how this works.
Since I opted to enable my iPhone 6 to optimize videos and photos that are stored locally on my phone, I presume this means that after I record a video, this will be synced to iCloud photo library in full quality, and thereafter removed from my phone, only to be replaced by a compressed version of the same video, and thereby reducing the amount of space needed on the phone to store the video in question. Correct?
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iCloud Photo Library is still in beta and the way it functions may also change.
Currently it does not keep a full resolution version on the device, so your 20GB of photos will not take up 20GB on your device.
How does iCloud Photo Library save space on my device?
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iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ - Apple Support
It defeats your purpose but not everyone's in general. For instance, I too have the 20GB plan and I use mine mostly for my iCloud backups (iPhone & iPad) and the contents of my iCloud Drive.
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How does iCloud Photo Library save space on my device?
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