My phone needs more space. I have lots of pictures on it and on my iPad. I recently purchased a MacBook and now my pics are on there. If I delete my camera roll from my phone, might I lose them?

I Need more space But if I delete my pics from my phone, how do I know that they won't reappear after the backup, or, much worse, be deleted from my MacBook and iPad after the Cloud backup?

1. Connect the phone to iTunes and do a backup (better safe than sorry)
2. Open iPhoto on the Air, and import all your photos from the phone
3. Now you can delete the photos on the phone and they're safe in iPhoto
4. If you want to put them (or some of them) back on the phone, you can put the ones you want on the phone into an album in iPhoto, then sync that album back to the phone
Hope that all makes sense

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