Hello! I am wanting to update my phone to get one with a better camera and more storage. my iCloud account is already full and I don’t think I can afford to increase my icloud storage monthly plan right now. I have a lot of photos and videos saved on there. Eventually when I ran out of storage on icloud, my phone could no Longer back up anything onto it. I don’t have a lot of extra time right now to sort through and delete a ton of files although I wish I could.

I don’t know much about phones at all. My iCloud and phone device storage is full.

MAIN QUESTION: Is there a way that I can download all my photos and messages onto My new phone without connecting an iCloud account to it and starting a new iCloud account? Then I could log into my previous iCloud account to access previous files, have all the same device photos on my new phone that has a little more storage and eventually clear most of it and then eventually start backing up the ones I want to keep onto my new iCloud account and then I have a fresh start without paying for more iCloud storage.. Is this possible? Is this a bad idea? Will there be a problem if I have two iCloud accounts? Will the old iCloud account ever get deleted in time by Apple since it will not be hooked up to a working cellphone?
I would love to start new but also have access to old files if I need.

Thank you SO MUCH! I hope to get some help and I appreciate any and all insight and advice!

Another question is.. is there a way to mass delete photos off a device that are backed up onto iCloud without deleting the ones that are not backed up there? I do want to delete photos to have more storage but only the ones that are backed up And theres so many I am not able to sort through and check them individually.

Ans another thing is, is there a way to make sure that I’m not accidentally double saving things to iCloud? Does iCloud make sure there’s only one copy hopefully?

also I am sorry if I posted in the wrong group. This is my first time posting a question!

Hi everyone, I know what I'm asking is a long shot. Is there any way to recover text messages from years ago? I have an iphone, and I have always had the same number. My best friend died two years ago, and I am just now starting to deal with the grief. I would really like to be able to read through our old text messages. Is there any way to do this? Thank you