Deleting Photos Takes up more storage??

Tried to update my phone, but settings said I didn't have enough iPhone storage, so I looked and noticed my Photos app was taking up around 5 GB on my phone. I sat for a couple of hours and deleted around 12,000 photos, yet now it's showing photos as taking up 7.5 GB? How does that make any sense? How am I meant to free up any storage?

Posted on Oct 23, 2025 7:27 AM

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LD150

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Oct 23, 2025 11:01 AM in response to Geneviieve

Did you go to Recently Deleted (in Collections) and delete from there?

You can tap select then run a finger down to select all of them

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