I only have 4,000 photos - but my photos take up 14g of Data?

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wthomas117 Author

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I only have 4,000 photos - but my photos take up 14g of Data?

On my phone I only have 4,000 photos and 115 in recently deleted. But it says photos takes up 14g of data on my phone!

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 13

Posted on Mar 17, 2020 5:07 PM

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Lawrence Finch

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Mar 17, 2020 5:19 PM in response to wthomas117

Settings/Photos - Optimize. As your phone needs space the photo kept on the phone is compressed at lower resolution, while the original is synced to iCloud at full resolution.

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Mar 17, 2020 5:12 PM in response to wthomas117

That’s about right. Each photo takes 3-4 MB after JPG compression. 4,000 photos at .004 GB each is 16 GB. At 3 MB each is 12 GB.

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TheLittles

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Mar 17, 2020 5:43 PM in response to wthomas117

wthomas117 Said:

"The only thing is I had over 9,000 photos at one point and they didn’t take up this much space - I just confused."

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Physical-Size and Resolution:

That is a bit mind-boggling. But, were they from a different device? If so, they would have had to be either smaller in physical-size, and/or be much, much lower in resolution.

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