Why is that I took 7000+ photos on my iPhone8 and I am already out of storage

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Why is that I took 7000+ photos on my iPhone8 and I am already out of storage

So recently I switched to a iPhone8 with 64GB and my previous iphone7 had 32GB. Why is that I took 7000+ photos on my iPhone8 and I am already out of storage when my previous iphone7 was able to hold 10000+ photos and had half the storage capacity of my new iPhone8? My photos in the iphone7 were Live Photos which means it should take up more space but my iPhone8 I used traditional photos and I’m already ran out.

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Posted on May 31, 2020 2:46 PM

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May 31, 2020 2:58 PM in response to NMJerry100

See how your storage is being used: Settings/General/iPhone Storage.

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NMJerry100 Author

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May 31, 2020 3:20 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Yes well I have 44gb of photos, I just don’t understand because why did my previous iphone7 have way less storage capacity yet can hold 10000+ photos for which I remember it was around 20GB taken up on the phone.

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May 31, 2020 4:10 PM in response to NMJerry100

Well, one possibility is you had Optimize Photos enabled on the old phone and you don’t on the new phone.

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MartinR

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May 31, 2020 4:25 PM in response to NMJerry100

It's also possible that Live Photos is enabled on your iPhone 8 (that's the default in recent versions of iOS). With Live Photos enabled whenever you take a photo you get both the still photo + a QuickTime .mov file. It takes 2 steps to disable Live Photos:

iPhone Camera - turn off Live photos
iPhone Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings > Disable Live Photo

Not sure what you can do about this for any existing .mov files for your 7000+ photos; I don't know of any way to delete just the .mov files. Perhaps someone else can answer that.

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Why is that I took 7000+ photos on my iPhone8 and I am already out of storage

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