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

To scabthepoet:

Thank you, thank you for this work around changing the date back to find phantom photos. It so worked. Just got a new iPhone 5 today because my battery kept crapping out and it failed diagnostic at Apple store. Apparently there was a replacement program for a batch of bad batteries that were released. But when they exchanged battery did not solve problem, hence new replacement phone. At same time I had run out of storage space and could not do newest update. They hoped synching the new phone might resolve the issue or delete all my photos on phone (I had deleted down to 80 and just could not figure how they were taking up so much space, but what do I know. Well, synched my phone and was happy to see I went from only 244 MB available to 3GB and was update was done. I could live with that, but figured I would delete even more photos (went from about 80 to 66, deleted them out of recently deleted, deleted 2 or 3 apps and a bunch of old messages, and my available storage went DOWN 😟. What the heck. So figured I could not be the only one with this weird problem. Googled and found this site, tried your solution and found 904 "fantom" photos in my recently deleted. Got rid of them and now have 7.4 GB of available space. DO not know how you figured this out, but THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! Saved me $500 dollars from having to buy a new phone for now!!

You are a genius. The people at apple didn't even know how to do this. It cleared it all up now have 8 gig of space instead of zero! Thank you.

That did the trick for me! Thanks so much!

Go to setting

> photos & camera

> icloud photo & library

> slide the green oval button off and back on

> exit out and check your storage

Thanks. That did it. So it's somewhat like emptying one's trash. What a pain to have to delete something twice.

glenrose88884444 wrote:

Thanks. That did it. So it's somewhat like emptying one's trash. What a pain to have to delete something twice.

Oh, the irony! Before that folder was added, we had a constant stream of complaints that accidentally deleted photos were gone forever; what a pain that was!

Brilliant, thank you so much. Great result!!!🙂

THANK YOU SO MUCH! It's march 2016 and I still have this problem. I set my year back to 1960 and a ton of photos that I thought I deleted reappeared! I would have never figured this out myself THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

Worked for me!

Thank you so much. I fixed both my kids iPads using this trick! After spending about 2 hours on it yesterday, it took me seconds today using your process. Can't thank you enough - genius!

Hi there,

it is not working for me. I deleted all the photos, deleted also photos from album "recently deleted", switched to date of 7. 1. 2003 and it still does not show any photo to delete but still 3,5 Gb in "photo library"..... Any file manager does not show the photos too.

Thank you for any advice on this. I have iPhone SE 16 Gb.

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!

Thank you so much! Finally an answer! Weeks trying to figure out.

You are god send! this worked like a dream. Thanks a mil 🙂

You are a genius, thank you!