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My iPhone shows 2.3 GB of data in my photo library but I just cleaned out all my photos? I already synced to iTunes and rebooted the device. I have updated to iOS8.
iPhone 4S, iOS 8
A user (txforever) found this solution:
Set your date back to September of 2014
Go back to photos. Although it may read "0", there should be some that need to be manually deleted.
-Ethan
I had the same problem with ghost photos taking up space.
This post by Ethan7988 fixed it for me.
I changed the date back to September 1 2014, went back into "Photos" and suddenly there were over 500 hundred photos in the "Recently Deleted" section.
Weird bug.
I think you do not have this matter before as we are mentioning to Photo Library which completely do not apprear in Photo apps but occupy much space in Setting/General/Usage.
Did you follow the instructions provided above? Reset your date? Checked Recently Deleted after doing so?
The Photo Library usage information directly correlates with the photos in your Photos app.
Cheers,
GB
Sorry, I miss it. I reply him right after read his comment without go to the end.
Already get 1.6GB ghost space back. So good that I do not need to buy a new phone 🙂
Most excellent! Thanks for posting back 🙂
Cheers,
GB
yeah, this works! This should be posted somewhere more prominently, I know many people with this problem!
Thank you for posting the workaround. This worked for me.
Dave
thank you so much Lawrence! i have been banging my head against a wall trying to deal with the photo issue. You saved the day!
thanks again,
Lawrence is the man.
Thank you, changing date back works and voila leftovers appeared!
For the Christ's sake Apple! The solution to change date back works and I recovered 700MBs hidden by this stupid issue. I was struggling with low space and it was just there sitting. I'm sure Apple tries to force us to buy more storage from them and this bug was done on purpose to anger the users!! Apple is simply annoying for not fixing this for so long time!! Where's the quality we pay for?
slajX wrote:
For the Christ's sake Apple! The solution to change date back works and I recovered 700MBs hidden by this stupid issue. I was struggling with low space and it was just there sitting. I'm sure Apple tries to force us to buy more storage from them and this bug was done on purpose to anger the users!! Apple is simply annoying for not fixing this for so long time!! Where's the quality we pay for?
How does it force you to buy more storage? The iPhone has a fixed amount of storage. There is no way to buy more. And how does angering users help Apple? Your post makes no sense at all. Apple DID fix it, BTW, in iOS 8.3. If you expect software to have no bugs you are living in a fantasy world.
It's forcing people to up their storage and in turn their budget when they initially get the phone. Customers shouldn't have to jump through hoops to recover missing storage space full stop!!!! Though they did just announce that it won't take as much free space to upgrade to next OS.
iPhone Photo Library "Ghost" Space
