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

Thank you thepartydj. Your method worked for me. So dumb that it has to be done that way, but very happy to have the storage back. Come'on Apple, your better than that.

This has made my day! My phantom photos are gone and storage is back. Thank you so much!

Freaking amazing. Thank you for your sacrificed time in finding the solution to this problem. Saved my butt. Date and time affects such strange things!

Oh my gosh. This worked like a charm! You're a life-saver, or at least a memory-saver!

I Have the same problem too.I tried to delete the "recently deleted" album. The photos were totally gone and never can be found anywhere in my app. But I just wonder why the memory of my photos is still 1gb where in fact it is empty. Well maybe we really need to wait for the 30days in the recently deleted album so that it is truly gone. I hope we can fix our bug sooner.....

This works! Thank you so much! I was going crazy

I created an account just to say Thank-you. I have been searching for the answer for some time.

I tried your solution and magically it worked perfectly !

Many thanks for your help !

I have had same problem for 2 days and tried everything on here to no avail, (I have iPhone 6 by the way) then I went to settings-photos & camera-icloud photo library and toggled it off, it asked me to "remove from this phone" which I did, now it's sorted, no more space issues! (then I toggled it back on after).

Hope this helps!

Thank you so much for the steps!  I had researched this because the 3 iPhones in my house were all showing GB of storage used with only a couple of pictures.  I was getting ready to reset all the phones when I found your post.  Worked like a charm!  Wado (Thank you)!

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.