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Why aren't photos being deleted from my iPad?

Hi,


so my iPad is full and I am trying to remove some files. Ideally, I would like to remove the offline copies of some of my photos, as these are in my iCloud (with plenty of storage) and the downloaded ones use up about 5 GB of space. I have enabled the "Optimise my iPad storage" option, but it hasen't actually deleted any of the offline pictures, even though the iPad is full and I have been promted to deleted some stuff. What to do?

iPad, iOS 13

Posted on Jan 11, 2020 3:34 AM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2020 9:24 PM

"Optimize iPad Storage" doesn't delete any photos, just reduce their resolution on the iPad while they are not being used.

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Why aren't photos being deleted from my iPad?

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