I have deleted photos from iphone 6 but the photo library still takes up a lot of space in internal storage. How can I delete photo library from storage on the iphone?

Hey there,

I have been dealing with this same issue for a couple months and I have finally found a solution. My phone was out of memory but I deleted all of pictures on the phone; Itunes still insisted I had over 4,000 pictures. By this time, I was about to do the .99 cents to upgrade my storage space but instead, this is what I did:

Go to Settings --> General --> Date & Time --> UNTOGGLE Set Automatically

**You need to set your date back a couple years. After you set the years back, go to:

Photos --> Albums --> Recently Deleted

** You need to delete all of this "Recently Deleted Pictures". For some reason all the pictures you deleted months back are still on your phone! Once you delete all of the pictures in this folder, you will have memory!!! Now I can use my phone!

Don't forget to set your date and time back to normal once you are done.

I had same problem .... no photos still photos holding up space on my device here is the solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WT3Z0Hals4

Its because of new update on iPhone, Old photos don't get delete by it self you have to delete them manually.

Changing the date and deleting the recently deleted photos (which I had over 1,000 pics) worked like a charm. I turned my phone on and off between both actions. Thanks for the suggestion!! Gained over 6gigs of data back.

Great information. This helped me solve my problem instantly.

What's happened is, your iPhone is trying to upload data to your iCloud account, but it's ran out of space. So, in typical Apple fashion is just stops and doesn't give any alerts or info for you to action.

So while you've deleted the content from your library AND your recently deleted folder, the phone STILL keeps the data on the handset as it's trying to upload it to your iCloud account, but it can't because it's full and thus, it doesn't display the content, but still takes up space.

That worked for me!

Thanks txforever!

SEOmama and scabthepoet............thank you both for that date/time reversion fix for deleting hundreds of space-sucking "deleted" photos from the2.8 iPhone! I was at my wits end and had nearly zero memory left on my perfectly good 5s, and not wanting to upgrade yet just because of memory. What a tricky situation! But after following your step by step process for the date/time/photo delete fix, BAM!, I suddenly had 2.8 GB of space back on my phone.

Thank you for the great assistance!!!!

Exactly...how did you even think of this?! I have been working on this for hours. THANK U!!!

Thank you for posting the scabthepoet answer. I have been frustrated too and this worked. My phone has lots of free space now and those photos are finally gone.

Scabthepoet - hats off to you.

Thank you SOOO much. I have recovered almost 8GB of space because of this technique, although I changed my date to the day I bought it, so ALL of the ghost pics were there and I managed to delete all of them. Thanks again!

After an hour or so, trying many things, this WORKED.
Thank you very much.

For SEO.... thank you so much for detailing so clearly what to do! Just done exactly as you instruct and have managed to free up another 3GB on my iPhone 5S.

There's a bug where Recently Deleted doesn't include all deleted photos. The workaround is to set the clock back: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-8281

You might also check Messages app, where many photo attachments can be hiding. For each thread, tap Details, scroll down to the attachments, long tap (tap-and-hold) one of them, tap More… in the edit menu, then you can choose photos and delete them.

I followed these instructions going through about every date and still it showed nothing in my deleted photos album. Then I noticed that I had went from 300MB of available storage to 8.5GB. Somewhere along the lines, just by changing the dates, my phone had corrected itself. Ive been dealing with this issue for months of web searching and with multiple factory resets, syncs, restores, chats, and trips to the dreaded apple bar. I was about at my wits end trying to get this resolved. No more deleting photos and apps just to take a picture. Heck; maybe now I can even take a video!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

I signed in here just to say that worked for me, I had 600+ photos and 70 vides in the recently deleted that were hidden until I manually rolled the clock back. Bizarre. I am so happy now to finally have that cleaned out.

THanks so much.. works like a charm... greetings from JAPAN..............