Hi. I have an iphone SE 2020. My phone storage was almost full. Photos are backed up to icloud. I deleted 26 videos from phone tonight but storage went up to more than it started at. Offloaded several apps - a few GB, deleted lots of Whatsapp content and texts but again space went back up to capacity. Deleted photos but they all go straight back on and 'deleted photos' folder is empty. Can anyone please help? Thanks
Probably you have synced these Photos from your Mac/PC through iTunes. UN-sync then they would be gone from iPhone.
UN-Sync photos to your device
on your Mac, select the device in the Finder sidebar.
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Hi
Thank you so much for your replies. I didn't do anything through iTunes but the phone has been set to sync photos to icloud via settings for a year or more. I was logged into iCloud.com only (not iTunes) on the laptop to download some older photos to the HDD when the problem started. After closing iCloud.com the problem continued initially - everything I deleted came straight back on - but after a while the problem went away and I was able to delete things ok. Relieved but still worried in case it happens again. I haven't gone back onto icloud.com since but I need to, to download some more. Does any of that make sense and is there anything I can do to make sure the problem doesn't repeat?
Thank you.
PS this has never happened before when deleting photos from the phone at the same time as downloading from iCloud.com to the laptop.
iPhone full but when I delete photos it puts them straight back
