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After deleting photos, memory in my iPad is still used. WHY?

When connecting my iPad mini to iTunes on my MacBook Air it shows that I have 2489 pictures on the iPad and am using 28.4 GB for all those pictures. When I open the Photos app on my iPad it shows that I do not have ANY pictures on the iPad, which would be correct, as I have deleted them all. So why are they still using up all that memory? How can I clear the memory to make it available again? BTW, My iPad Settings>General>About agrees with iTunes. It shows that I have 2452 pix (why not 2489 as above?), and am using 28.4 GB for them. So again, HOW CAN I CLEAR THE UNUSED MEMORY, or get rid of the pix if they are indeed still hiding somewhere on my iPad?

My iPad mini is running iOS 8.1.1

Thanks for any help....

iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Dec 8, 2014 9:34 PM

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tcaddy

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Jun 20, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Ethan7988

Thanks, This worked.... I was about to wipe my iPad as I have tired every other recommendation... but simply changing the date and time back to Sept 2014 fixed the problem. and cleared up 6.5 GB of storage space.

Tahunga Author

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Jun 21, 2015 9:06 AM in response to Ethan7988

Ethan,

I did not get any of the conversation until today. But now that I read the whole stretch, you seem to be the one who helped many others. Thanks for that. My issue has been solved for a while. And it nearly appears as if Apple actually fixed the glitches in one of their IOS updates.

Thanks for all your help to everyone.

.....Tahunga.

Jun 24, 2015 11:18 AM in response to Tahunga

I have tried changing date to september 2014, still there in no change in used space. I have tried resetting my mobile also but no good news. Any other solution to solve this issue??

Jun 25, 2015 12:00 PM in response to vinaysilla

I've just had the same issue and have found that if you go into your photos and click on albums, there is a recently deleted folder in there and all the photos I had deleted were in there. Once I selected them all and physically deleted them, my iPad went from 1.2GB space free to 20GB free.

I hope this helps

Kohri

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Jul 1, 2015 4:10 AM in response to Tahunga

I Just got an iPad Air 2, very happy with it. just last night I used it to make a video that happened to be long which literally used up all the storage on my iPad. I tried deleting it just as you did with all your pictures but it wasn't reflecting in usage in settings plus I couldn't download or safe anymore on my iPad. Found this forum and this post, tried setting the time back, didn't work. My iPad is new, I don't have any thing on it yet so there is no hidden photos to find or what not. For some reason while messing around in settings I went down to photos & Camra. In there icloud photo library was selected which was trying to send that video to iCloud to save. Basically because it was trying to save to my iCloud it wouldn't delete the video yet. I turned that off because I don't need that and immediately my storage was free and looked correct again. I don't know if this will help you but I wanted to throw it up here just in case it might.

Jul 6, 2015 6:59 PM in response to Kohri

Thanks Kohri! This helped!

Frog127

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Jul 28, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Ethan7988

HI Ethan

i reset my mini iPad factory and when I try to transfer to album from my iMac via itune I still can see the old album and can't transfer the ones a got on my Mac please can you help me thank you

Dec 19, 2015 1:12 AM in response to Ethan7988

EXcellent Ethan7988 - just cleared 2Gb camera mem on my iphone with this useful tip

dave e3

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Feb 6, 2017 9:18 AM in response to Tahunga

Followed Ethan - no change - then this and it worked! Thanks. Why can't Apple fix this or are they just looking to sell more storage space?

Aug 30, 2017 7:56 PM in response to Eionfromnzl

Followed ethan's sept 2014 solution but nothing happened. My baby's iPad said he had 8.9Gb of photos and videos. Did your solution and it went down to 1.3 Gb. Thanks a lot!!!

After deleting photos, memory in my iPad is still used. WHY?