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

I am trying to get more space on my iPad air (not the cloud). I uploaded all my photos to my PC and I have deleted all of my photos from my camera roll and photo stream. The problem is that under usage, it still says:

Camera roll 42.7 mb

Photo library 0

Photo stream 429 mb

I need to figure this out ASAP. I know thst there are a number of posts about this but I can't find any real answers. A lot redirect to older sites with advice that is outdated. Can someone please help me.

iPad, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Mar 20, 2014 7:49 PM

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txforever

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Posted on Mar 5, 2015 9:37 AM

I managed to get rid of the phantom usage. Restoring iPhone and resetting the phone settings/data do not work for me.

I had to move the Date on my phone earlier by 1,2,3 months and found the phantom photos in the Recently Deleted Folder. Next, I deleted the photos manually from the Recently Deleted Folder and the usage got freed up from my iPhone.

Hope this works for you

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Johnmh47

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Apr 4, 2015 2:19 PM in response to txforever

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

cvgaytan

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Apr 6, 2015 1:24 PM in response to txforever

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

Apr 10, 2015 3:27 AM in response to txforever

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

Thanks for this tip!! Very much appreciated!

bjjmd

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Aug 9, 2015 3:20 PM in response to txforever

Thank you thank thank you txforever!!!! This problem has been plaguing me for months!

Pos2015

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Sep 16, 2015 2:34 AM in response to txforever

I never knew you could do this and I've just done it for my dad and its cleared up all his space! Thank you so much!

shaynero

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Dec 28, 2015 9:42 AM in response to txforever

Thanks! This worked for me.

Mar 27, 2016 5:54 AM in response to riba75

Thank you Riba, nothing worked until I tried iExplorer. 🙂

Ajgamer8

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Jan 24, 2017 3:09 PM in response to MChollar

Thank you so much!!!!

Jun 7, 2017 6:54 AM in response to John Reinhold

thnx dude. Finally got my freed up space for my phone. Thanks again with regards Extremeyumnam

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