I deleted all my photos but they are still taking up space

Of course when you're done and satisfied, change Date and Time to Set Automatically so that it is correct again.

you may need to manually set the date back a year or more depending how long you owned and when you did heavy photo taking. After resetting the date, I forget if a restart is needed, you will see the "deleted" photos and manually delete again. After deleting, then reset the time and date to auto as advised by others.

Thank you so much! This worked! I've been trying to get rid of those phantom photos (7GB!!!) and I even backed up and restored my photos. I can't believe this worked, but it did! Thanks again to everyone who contributed information.

Thanks! I followed your instructions and did a heavy restart (on/off key w/ the button in the front) and then deleted the photos in the deleted photos album. Voila! I finally have my 7GBs of space back!

Seriously I have spent forever trying to find the answer!

YOU Rock TXFOREVER!

Cleared out 5.03 GB in seconds! AMAZING

BIG thank you from me too txforever, - just reclaimed 9GB! I can't believe such an issue can exist - no doubt Apple won't admit it does. Very frustrating and such an easy fix when you know how 🙂

I had to manually set my date back before I even purchased the new IPhone6, but it worked like a charm! I freed up over 3 GB of space from "Recently Deleted Photos" !!!

Worked perfectly! Wish I would have found your post earlier; you saved me a lot of time. Thanks so much for sharing!

Thank you TXForever! I just freed up 5.2 GB of space on my iphone.

I deleted most of my photos, but my iPad was still using 20GB for photos! I used the roll-back-the-date method and was able to delete hundreds of hidden "deleted" photos. I got my photo use down to 1GB. I'm astonished that this is the only way to solve this problem. Is this a feature? Is anyone from Apple reading these comments? The developers should be embarrassed.

Changing the date a few months back Fixed it for me!!!

Thanks for this tip!! Very much appreciated!

Anyone have any other ideas? I tried setting the date back a year, restarting, and only half a dozen photos showed up in the "recently deleted" folder. I deleted them, but I've still got 10gb of storage space tied up in phantom photos!! D: Help!

Thank you TXForever! I showed 1.7 GB of photos, but only had 3 photos on my device.

I set my iPhone back one month (Settings | General | Date & Time | turned off Set Automatically, then changed date back one month).

There they were, now showing in the Recently Deleted photos.

I deleted them, changed my Date & Time back to Set Automatically,

and as the French say, "Voila!" My photos instantly dropped to a few MB of usage.

I am having the same problem. I tried to follow your steps but ran into a snag:

1. Open iTunes on your Mac. Success

2. Plug your iPad in. Success

3. Check that both iTunes and your iPad both say that you have pictures. I can't see any pictures on my iPad but iTunes shows I have 400+

4. Open iPhoto on your Mac. Success

5. Select "iPad Camera" in iPhoto. Since Mac has moved to Photos, I don't have this option

Any further suggestions? I have tried resetting my iPad but that didn't work either.

6. You should see pictures.

7. Select "Import all".

8. A pop up should apear asking if you want to delete the pictures from your camera.

9. Select delete then if you want, you can delete them from iPhoto.

10. Sync your iPad in iTunes.

Do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGaR9hglCJ0

Download iexplorer to your PC or MAC and follow the instructions from this video. It works like a charm, I just got rid of 6.4 GB of ghost pictures.