iPhone photo storage limit

heath233 wrote:

How do I decrease the amount of iPhone storage used for photos? I have plenty of space on iCloud, but zero space on phone. I cannot downloads new apps, take new photos, etc. I have an iPhone 12

Check this article for optimizing your photos. This will, as best it can,. reduce the amount of storage used on your phone for photos.

See >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT205703

heath233 wrote:

I read the article and have all those settings set correctly per the directions. I don’t think the iPhone is Optimizing the photos correctly b/c it says I’m still using 46 Gb for photos. I still cannot take new photos, download new apps, etc. I have tried a reset but no change.

How long have you waited? It is not a quick process for large libraries.

I suggest you do not play around with resets as you are simply restarting a slow process. Patience.

Having zero space on your phone makes it "worse"

You can't add to the storage capacity on any device.

It could take days to upload that much data to iCloud.