My iPhone 5 camera roll is empty, but under usage says 3.1GB - how can I delete?

Crazy, don't know you you figured this out, but thanks so much. Worked for me!

ohhhhhh!!!! Incredible but trust. thanks very very very much

Helped me too!

In additon - I cleared out the "recently deleted" folder first, then updated to iOS 8.3, then followed the above instructions. I didn't have any recently deleted photos after changing the date to delete, but simply changing the date back to 2007 seemed to make it rethink what it had.

Incredible! This problem has been hounding me for the last 2 months - I couldn't figure out why I was using so much storage with so few apps and photos. THANK YOU scabthepoet!

Great start, but I had to do one additional thing to get my space back: I had to sync (and unsync) my photo's with iCloud.

If you have too many pictures however, you will get an error if you didn't execute your steps.

This was a breath of fresh air. I was searching on how to get rid of 4GB worth of phantom space that had me going crazy for almost an hour. To be honest, while intentions for the creation of "Recently Deleted" albums might have been pure, it does much much more damage than good and I would rather have the option to turn it off. Apple please take note.

this is EXACTLY IT! **** the third party apps. this is all you neeed. thank you. thank you. and, thank you. ^^this guy knows whats up. just got my first iphone weeks ago. ok. now i can go back to recording guitar licks.

This worked perfectly. It wouldn't let me go to 2014, but I set the calendar to September 1, 2015 and I had over 500 pictures in my recently deleted photos. TY TY TY! 🙂

This was a beautiful fix! I was out of memory, deleted every photo and app that I didn't need, but still showed huge amount of photo storage usage. Was driving me nuts and I was just about to concede to buying a new phone for more memory....until I found this thread. Followed the date/time reversion fix and BAM!.....I had over 2.8 GB of space magically restored to my 5s. What a relief. Thank you!!!!

Thanks sooooooooooo much! you just helped me released 9GB of storage on my iphone 5s!!!!!

Regards,

Henry

To: scabthepoet

Thank God for people like you. You found the perfect solution, I freed up 3 GB of storage by deleting the phantom photos. I just want to add another small helpful point: just looking at the "recently deleted" album doesn't show anything other than "0", you have to tap on the "recently deleted" album to see the phantom photos. Scabthepoet, you're the man! Yay!! This was a problem with my iphone 4S, no problem no more!

That worked like magic for me, thanks

Thank you so much for doing all that research, this has been making me nuts for so long and I've deleted so many apps I like to make room for these phantom photos!! Argghh!!!

Try going to photos--albums---recently deleted---select the photos you deleted---select trash. Your deleted photos stay on your phone for 30 days after you delete them.

This fix worked for me:

1. Set date manually for 40 days in the future;
2. Wait 5 minutes and confirm recently deleted goes to 0;
3. Power down phone;
4. Turn back on and it's cleared out.

This is definitely a bug, but this is the quickest easiest fix by far.