inconsistent indication of photos data

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inconsistent indication of photos data

My wife's iPhone 11 has 6 photos on it totaling 10 MB. Settings-general-iphone storage shows 34GB. I have deleted everything down to an essential 6 items but settings maintains that photos are 34GB.

What is going on???

ios: 17.3.1

iPhone 11

Posted on Mar 21, 2024 11:17 AM

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Mar 23, 2024 3:07 PM in response to peregrineguy

So I had to answer this myself...Deleting a media file from the Photos app does not delete it from the phone. To do that you have to go to Albums (in the app) and scroll down to "recently deleted" to really delete them.

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