Can not free up storage space after deleting all photo

I have the same problem with my iPhone 6 s

Epic, worked a treat, saving an old phone from overload!

Same problem with an iPhone 5S. We deleted all albums, all photos, deleted Instagram (just in case), turned off all iCloud options for Photos. Image Capture shows no photos. iPhone shows no photos, no albums, no shared. After deleting Instagram, there is no other app on the phone that uses photos.

Yet the Manage Storage on iPhone says Photos are using 8GB.

We Reset the phone, using "Erase All Content and Settings", and then used Restore iPhone from iTunes.

We've tried everything we could find in lots of forums. And still 8GB is used for Photos that apparently don't exist.

I tried buying an extra 20 GB on iCloud. In a other forum they said this would free up the space. This did not happen immediately. But then I went back and did another sync in iTunes. This time i checked sync over wifi. This time the memory did free up completely. What a strange scenario.

In my case I turned iCloud backup off. Logged into iCloud, there are no photos. There is no backup. I Reset the iPhone and erased all contents, and Restored from the Mac. It still showed over 1500 photos. Which don't seem to be visibly anywhere.

Exact same thing for me. The photos sat in the Recently Deleted Album for 30 days and counted down each of the those days.

It's now been 30 days. The photos are gone from that Album. But no space has been recovered.

This is so fundamental.

I also have this problem. I've deleted most photos plus gone through my text messages and deleted photos from there. Spent all afternoon going through texts, deleting, deleting, deleting......and it freed up 550 kb. :-(

ALL I CAN SAY IS ARG!!!!! SAME PROBLEM. SO FRUSTRATING. I AM COMPLETELY OUT OF SPACE ON MY PHONE AND I FIND MYSELF DELETING APS JUST TO BE ABLE TO GET ANYTHING DONE. CAN ANYONE TELL I'M UPSET BY ALL THE CAPSSSSSSSSS!

Mr Finch, you are a star! This has been bugging me as my daughters Ipad mini said I had about 10GB of photos. Followed your instructions and it worked like a dream. Now have 10GB available.

Many thanks and I advise others to give it a go!

Wow - this worked for my kids IPad!! Incredible. Another Apple PITA solved in some nicely laid out steps - a big thanks Lawrence for posting this. I have been going a bit crazy trying to sort this out. Do the good folks @ Apple know this, or how can this be escalated. To me it is a BIG flaw. The answer is not intuitive at all. Maybe a fix should be sent out in the next IOs update.

Anywho - thanks again!!

Thanks Lawrence. This has been driving me and my boyfriend nuts for some time now. I'm pretty tech savvy and I have to say that this certain issue was pretty frustrating to fix. I would have never figured that out on my own. No one likes to do a factory reset if it can be avoided because it feels like all the work you have put into it gets flushed down the toilet.So just wanted to say thanks for finding this fix, it did the trick!

Hi, I did all this and still have not retrieved my storage. I do not have cloud turned on, tried turning everything off and on a few times, nothing seems to be working. Nothing shows in the recently deleted items folder, either at todays date or when I turn back the date manually. I had a lot of photos from a big trip so now it still shows 29 GB in my Photo Library under usage but they have all been deleted! I hope you can help. Thanks.

If you are running iOS 8.2 or 8.3, and you have really followed the steps that I posted exactly, including setting back the time 2 years, then opened the Deleted folder even if it says zero images, then your phone's memory is hopelessly corrupt and you will have to restore it and set it up as new.

I did follow all the steps, even tried it more than once, but in the end needed to do a factory reset. Kind of scary as I am not that knowledgeable about computers but after doing this, restoring saved info from iTunes and then doing a restart it all finally worked!! Thank you for your help, it is much appreciated, and also for the quick reply to my query.

The one and ONLY way to recover storage on an iphone is to reset to factory defaults. Back up your

photos and contacts etc. and reset the sucker. None of the other options offered on this forum work.

Save yourself the aggravation and reset!