Hidden & Recently deleted Albums in Photos on IOS 8

Why under photos I cannot see Recently Deleted photos option

Stellasl wrote:

Why under photos I cannot see Recently Deleted photos option

Recently Deleted is in the Albums section of the Photos app, keep scrolling down and you'll see it.

I don't Hide photos so can't help there.

Prior to the addition of the Recently Deleted album numerous users complained that they could not recover photos they had deleted. So Apple added the Recently Deleted album. When you delete photos from the Camera Roll album they are stored in the Recently Deleted album for 30 days before being deleted from the device. This gives plenty of time for a user to recover the photos.

If you need to free up space immediately after deleting the photos from the Camera Roll you need to also delete them from the Recently Deleted album.

jo.b wrote:

If the point of the Hidden Album is to hide photos how do you stop someone looking at them if all you have to do is tap on the album and it opens?

I realize you posted this months ago, but since Ralph resurrected it ...

Hiding photos only removes them from your timeline, i.e. "Moments, Collections, and Years". They will still show up in Camera Roll, Photo Stream, and any albums you've put them into. Perhaps there will be enhancements to the functionality of this feature in the future, but for now it has pretty limited use.

OK, I've got a similar, but more irritating, problem.

My iPad Air 16GB had too many photos on, using up nearly 4GB of space. So I archived these photos and got rid of all but about 25.

In the next couple of weeks I was a lot better at housekeeping my photos and deleted them every couple of days.

Next time I wanted to do an iTunes sync, I noticed Photos was still taking up about 4 GB. Hmm, so I had a look on the net and saw the recently deleted photos "feature" and how to deal with it. Great I said to myself and went to the "recently deleted" folder where it had only about 40 photos. So i deleted these i.e. ALL the photos in "recently deleted". But still iTunes and the iPad were reporting photo usage as around 4GB. Grrr

So I backed up my iPad, reset it to factory settings and restored. Still 4GB being reported as photos, still an empty "recently deleted" folder, just the 25 photos I'd saved. Huh?????

So I fired up Syncios - lo and behold it says there are about 2,300 photos in recently deleted. But Syncios won't let me delete them and I can't see them on my iPad or on iTunes to delete them. So what the **** do I do?????

I have a very similar problem. On vacation I took several thousand photos with my iPhone. I spend many hours prunning my camera roll and ended up with about about a thousand. It has now been over a month since I deled those photos, and my "recently deleted" folder is empty. However, Syncios displays every photo I took, including the thousands I deleted! How do I get rid of them. This is very frustrating.

Could possibly be related to this: Why does my iOS device say I have more photos than I can find?

What is "Syncios?"

Ethan, thanks! That was exactly the problem, a strange iPhone bug. Setting the date back several years showed up thousands of photos in my previously empty "Recently Deleted" album. Deleting them again freed up severeal gigabytes of storage. Fantastic! But wait, why hasn't Apple fixed that bug? - it must be driving many of their customers crazy.

Hi Raph, Ethan solved my problem (caused by a strange iPhone bug); but, to answer your question, Syncios is an excellent alternative to iTunes for managing stuff on iPhones and transferring files back and forth between PCs and iPhones. I was actually forced to seek an alternative to iTunes because I originally set up my iTunes accound for a different device on a now defunct computer. For reasons I can't fathum, iTunes is now upset with me and refuses to work on my new computer and my newer iPhone (it wants me to reset my iPhone and its iTunes contents back to ground zero).