How to delete all of your photos on your iPhone 5c but still keep them in iCloud?

How to delete all of your photos on your iPhone 5c but still keep them in iCloud? - 1

If you have a laptop, you can delete them that way and back them up on icloud and delete them from your phone. That is one way to do it

Annoyingly, these are linked now in such a way that it requires manipulation. You will have to MOVE those photos out of iCloud and back them up someplace else. Like you used to do with PhotoStream - same principle - but now, gone is gone. You can optimize the photos on your phone so that they take up far less space - and when you want to view them, they are summoned from iCloud. This isi NOT the best solution they have come up with - I hope it changes in the future, giving us more options. I might just clean out the Cloud, change BACK to PhotoStream, and then up load what I want to my phone again. I need a clear half-day to do this, and do not have have one right now.