Marie Kim

Q: ios 8 / iphone 5s - deleted photos, memory still appears occupied

To make more storage space on my iphone, I went through and deleted about 1,300 photos from my iphone.  They were in my "recently deleted" album for 30 days and then they disappeared.  So I expected to have more storage available on my iphone (maybe 10 GB more?).

 

But no, something is wrong.  Whenever I attach my phone to the laptop by USB, it still appears that I have thousands and many GBs of photos.

 

I have a 32 GB iphone 5s, and I have installed ios 8.1.2.  I back up my iphone to my laptop only.  I do not use iCloud or Photostream.  My laptop is running Windows 7.

 

I can't see the deleted photos anymore on my phone.  But I think they are still occupying the memory.  I received a warning that I was running out of storage.

 

To try to fix this, I did a back-up and then restored the phone tonight.  Three hours later, I have a little more storage available from removing "other" files.  But the photos still look like they occupy many GBs.

 

I'm at a loss.  Has anyone else experienced this?  Did your phones end up overwriting deleted photos when you needed more storage?  Or is there a fix?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Jan 14, 2015 11:12 PM

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