Cleaning Up Cloud Storage - Saving photos and edit (XMP?)

Hi all,

I've been scouring the internet and havn't found a good solution to my challenge, so I'm wondering if it is possible.

Here is my challenge:

• I want to downloads my edited files, including the edits to save some space on my cloud account
  • When I say edits, I mean the actual Lightroom settings, not a new image with the edits included
  • I want to be able to reupload the file, or open it in LightRoom classic (and not sync to the cloud) and not lose any changes I made
• I have a hard time throwing away work.  If I spent effort and time editing an image, I want to save those edits so that if I need to tweak it in the future, I can.

I use Lightroom CC to edit photos from either my iPhone, or my Camera SLR (in RAW). For the RAW files, I can download the original and the XMP.  However, from some of the non-raw iPhone images, those in JPEG, it only downloads the original and the edited.  In this case, if I delete the file from he cloud, I lose any edits.  If I were to reimport the file, all the edit settings are set back to default (i.e. 0).

I want to delete some edits from the cloud to save storage space, as this is only a hobby and I do not want to pay more to increase storage space to keep every file on the cloud when I can throw them on a backup disk.  

I've come across many posts and how-tos with respect to export, saving, and using the LightRoom Downloader, but none seem to solve this challenge.

Thanks in advance