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?

Thanks for that helpful tip. I deleted all videos and photos and still it showed few hundred of photos and videos. Only after applying your trick I could release the memory.

Unfor Apple becomes more and more like Microsoft, designing cumbersome apps requiring funny workarounds.

BTW, a multiselect in the photo app is not rocket science and would save peoples time their life time when a few hundred photos have to be deleted.

To all Apple engineers: stop trying to re-invent the wheel, just use your own apps and you will find how cumbersome they are sometimes (sometimes apps are also pretty good but then don't try to 'improve' them which goes sometimes really the other direction).

You just responded to a 2 year old post that was almost certainly about a problem that is different from yours. Can you please describe the issue you have, whether or not you use iCloud Photos (see Settings/iCloud to see if Photos is turned on), whether these are photos that you copied from your computer to your iPhone, or if they are photos you took on the iPhone, or received in texts.

WhyOnEarthItIsNotWorking wrote:

BTW, a multiselect in the photo app is not rocket science and would save peoples time their life time when a few hundred photos have to be deleted.

The photo app has multiselect and has had it for many years. I use it every few days.

Ok, let me rephrase it:

A 'Select All' or an improved multi-select that allows you to by year, month or day etc.

is no rocket science.

The current 'click each image that you want to delete' multiselect is not really helpful when it comes down to deleting hundred of images (especially from the recently

deleted photos folder).

I've just restored to a new phone and suddenly discovered 2083 photos sitting in my Recently Deleted folder, dated going back to 2008!! So there have been photos hanging around since my first iPhone!! We are mid 2017 right now. The majority tho' are from 2014 onwards and all show "24 Days" on them.

So these have been sitting in my phone invisible, hogging memory, but not actually Auto-Deleted!

So it seems for people for whom the fix of resetting the phones date back a few months should try setting the date back even further to when they got the phone. This may mean the photos then show in the Recently Deleted folder to enable manual deletion.

This is crazy. A fundamental coding error in the OS which meant my last 64GB iPhone 5 was slowing becoming smaller & smaller with every photo & video supposedly 'deleted'.

Apple, I don't know what to say.

Hi - I just went through this myself and I have and iphone 6+....my solution was to go into "camera", then "all photos", then "albums"....there you will find an album called "recently deleted". Open it and select all and press "delete all"....It takes a little time but I've gotten rid of over 6,000 photos and freed up space on my iphone...

Hope this helps!!

I got an IPhone SE on the 6th June 2017, ( now 22nd September 2017 ), and I don’t have iCloud or photos drive on and the same problem is happening to me too. I’ve tried the date-time thing and it hasn’t worked, I don’t know what else to do I’ve been stuck on this for a while, can anyone help? :(

The "date-time thing" was a workaround 2 years ago for a bug that was fixed a few months later. It won't help any current issues, but perhaps if you describe specifically your situation someone may be able to suggest an approach to fixing it.

I have 4 photos in my iPhotos App. I have all my photos/video backed up to external hard drive. I have deleted all my photos out of iCloud and left only documents in there.

It still says I have 1.06GB of photos!!!!????

I have been trying for months to clear storage on my tiny 16GB iPhoneSE and now it still won't clear.

So many having this problem and I don't understand how to fix it. Grrr.

Have tried to change date on my phone manually to see any old ghost photos. Nothing there.

I have deleted extra albums from iPhoto that looked like they had nothing but just in case I gIt rid of them.

I have also turned Off iCloud Photo sharing and turning On Photo Sharing. I'm stumped, where could these photos possibly be??

I haven't tried restoring factory settings because I don't want the hassle of reloading everything again...can anyone tell me if this really needs to be done?

Anybody had any new success with 'phantom Photo storage' ? Any tips appreciated.

OMG I cannot believe this worked but it has. I was so frustrated after spending many hours trying all sorts of different things. I was ready to go back to a Samsung phone (even though my iphone is just new). Thanks heaps wbannatyne

I backdated 5 years and still nothing showed up in my Recently Deleted photos.

Funny my name is Warren as well!

I've run into the same issue and it was driving me nuts. But what I did fixed it.

Go to Settings>Photo's and Camera>iCloud Photo Library (Beta).....Turn it on....Than just shut it right back off after it did it's thing.

It said I had 295 photo's on my new iPhone 6 Plus...When there was none...After doing this it reset it back to zero...And under Usage it also has reset and I've got that space back under iTunes.

Hope this works as I'm just a new iPhone 6 Plus user as of 2 hours ago, and managed to figure this out.

Well, my name is Will so we've got three W's in the house!

THIS HELPED ME! I did have to toggle "My Photo Stream" and "iCloud Photo Sharing" on and off as well to get it to update but all is well now.

Thanks Warren and Warren.

Warrenception.

xD

btw thanks 😀 (Y)

Doesn't work for me 😟 It says: "This iPhone is storing 8.09 GB of photos and videos. You currently have 5.36 GB of iCloud storage available." This is beyond annoying, I only have 11 photos!