My phone keeps saying : CANNOT TAKE PHOTO .. There is not enough available storage to ate a photo .. Manage your storage in settings ... Errrrrrrrrr I'm so aggravated

You say to remove what you don't need, if I delete say books to free up 58.5 MB. Am I right in saying this will delete all books in all devices.

Thanks.

M.

My phone says that too, but then I deleted some stuff off of my phone. But it still continues to say the same thing, I have 2.5MB left on my phone. And you're saying one lousy picture takes up more than 2.5MB?

A photo taken with an 8MP camera is around 4MB in size.

Hey Liz! I know I'm a little late, but believe it or not, I actually have found a solution to this problem. Basically, you use facebook as cloud storage. A detailed tutorial can be found ****

Hope this helps!
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I'm also having the same problem. I've had my iPhone about 3 months now and love it, save for the storage issue. I specifically asked the Verizon rep how many pics it could store, as I take a lot. He assured me I'd have room 'for about 1000'. I was never able to get over 100. In the beginning, I had 85 photos on my phone before running into storage problems. I've deleted a number of apps I had downloaded to free space and now just have 5 apps.(in addition to what comes with the phone)

In Photos, I have exactly:

8 recently added photos

5 favorites

one 36 sec. video

…and I can't take any photos or video.

The last month I deleted as much as I could, sending pics to iCloud and downloading to iPhoto on my computer, yet the available space on my phone keeps shrinking. I'm obviously missing something here as it makes no sense that I keep deleting and yet have less space for photos than previously.

Going into settings/usage, (under Photos and Camera) I have 598 MB in 'Photo Library', 80.9MB in 'My Photo Stream', and 275MB used in 'Shared Photo Stream'. Is there a way to delete 'My Photo Stream' and 'Shared Photo Stream'? And are the 13 pics and a 36 sec. video taking up 598 MB of space?

Is there something else I should be looking at? I'm not good at deleting e-mails and tend to let them sit in the In box after reading - could that be a factor? Is there a second 'trash' needed (as on my computer) to actually be rid of them? Or does the initial 'delete' take care of it?

TIA - much appreciated.

dd

Mine too. Deleted all music, movies, photos etc but only helps for a short time. my phone shows only 11.8 gb left, but when I look at the capacity through my computer, it shows more than 11gb unused.

As , "11.8 gb left" and "more than 11gb unused" mean pretty much the same thing, it's not clear where the confusion lies.

Trying to sort this out for a family friend. Her iPhone 5s says she has 5GB memory of which 4.3Gb is available. Still wont allow any photos to be taken because of insufficient room. Neither she nor I can fathom our what the problem is.

The helpful responders here don't have a clue to this problem! At first I thought I might be the only one with this problem which started earlier this year after updating the IOS on my iPhone4. Now last night a friend with a newer generation iPhone had the exact same problem. Hummmm ....... so a not so nice fix was to use iTunes to download the photos to my laptop and I had the box checked to delete the originals. That did free up space but I didn't want all the photos off the iPhone. What the responders don't realize is that we can delete all the apps, music, video and photos we want but it's still like in the trash can. The trash can must be emptied somehow! Until then we keep getting the error message and the camera is dead in the water, that is unless you use the iTunes workaround I mentioned. There has to be a better fix than this!

Step 1

Go to Photos. Go to the albums view.

See if there are any items in recently deleted. Clear them out.

Step 2

Go to Settings->General->Storage & iCloud Usage

See how much space does it show as available. Additionally go to Manage Storage to check out what's taking up the space.

I Have this problem too. Still have not found an answer. When I go to view storage for my phone, it says I have 4 gigs available but it still will not take a photo. POS.

Yep, did this. Says I have 4 gig of space available but still will not take a photo because "Storage full" Does not make sense.

I had the exact problem. Go the albums, recently deleted photos, then delete those again, presto! What a dumb thing for Apple to do!

So after you delete music and photo's you have to reboot your phone so you can take pictures.

I had the exact problem. Go the albums, recently deleted photos, then delete those again, presto! What a dumb thing for Apple to do!