Q: Can not free up storage space after deleting all photo

I think you need to go to Albums and then Recently Deleted. There you will find all the local photos that have been deleted in the last 30 days but are still recoverable. Select All and deletes these, assuming you no longer want the option to recover them. This will free up local storage.

I have the exact same problem. I have deleted all photos from the phone, everything from the recently deleted, every single photo. In usage it still shows Photos and Camera is using 4.4GB. When I connect to iPhoto it doesn't show any photo in the phone either so there's definitely no photo in there. Don't know why the phone thinks there is 4.4GB of photos in the usage part. I have restarted the phone as well. Nothing.

If anybody found a solution for this, can you please update. I'm using iPhone 5 with 8.1.2 software.

Exact. Same. Issue.

Same problems with iphone 4s and ipad mini.

Why oh why, did i update

Exactly the same issue here. Usage show 4.4G in photo and video after I deleted all of them.

Same problem with an iPhone 5S. We deleted all albums, all photos, deleted Instagram (just in case), turned off all iCloud options for Photos. Image Capture shows no photos. iPhone shows no photos, no albums, no shared. After deleting Instagram, there is no other app on the phone that uses photos.

Yet the Manage Storage on iPhone says Photos are using 8GB.

We Reset the phone, using "Erase All Content and Settings", and then used Restore iPhone from iTunes.

We've tried everything we could find in lots of forums. And still 8GB is used for Photos that apparently don't exist.

My phone is having a similar issue. I have not tried syncing to itunes yet, but will soon. 

I am having the same issue. I tried to sync my phone to and empty folder on the desktop and it didn't work. This "photo library" is taking up so much room and I have no idea how to get rid of it.

Same problems here, deleted all photos, emptied recently deleted photos, synched with iTunes, iPhoto library is empty, but I still show 10 GB - 877 photos after the it

unes sync.

I tried buying an extra 20 GB on iCloud. In a other forum they said this would free up the space. This did not happen immediately. But then I went back and did another sync in iTunes. This time i checked sync over wifi. This  time the memory did free up completely.  What a strange scenario.

I think if you have the iCloud backup turned on, it'll back up all of your photos and videos to your phone regardless of whether you delete it or not. Your photos and videos will stay in the cloud as well as be stored on your iPhone's internal storage. You can check to see whether all of the photos and videos are still stored with iCloud in your iPhone or not and if they are, you can decide what you want to do with them. I may be wrong, but I hope this works for you.

In my case I turned iCloud backup off. Logged into iCloud, there are no photos. There is no backup. I Reset the iPhone and erased all contents, and Restored from the Mac. It still showed over 1500 photos. Which don't seem to be visibly anywhere.

Exact same thing for me. The photos sat in the Recently Deleted Album for 30 days and counted down each of the those days.

It's now been 30 days. The photos are gone from that Album. But no space has been recovered.

This is so fundamental.

Same exact.