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

I had the same problem, but the photos were not in the CAMERA folder, but on the THUMBNAIL folder...

could it be that apple forgot to delete the thumbnails of photos I delete? I had more than 3GiB of thumbnails!!!

I was notified my storage space was full. Was asked to delete some my my videos. I deleted many of my videos, and I was shown zero space.

I have actually 20.34 GB of space available for us.

Why I'm barred from using iPhone camera.

Hope someone can help.

Hi, first, I have to make 2 things clearly:

First, the deleted photos are still on your iPhone, not Camera Roll, but in 'Recently Deleted'. From here, you should select them all and delete them permanently.

Second, besides the photos in iPhone Camera Roll, which you can delete, but there are some photos in photo library you can't delete at all. To clear all all photos in photo library, you should connect your iPhone with your computer and launch iTunes > click your iPhone and navigate to Photos > check Sync photos from > select an empty folder and apply the sync.

Hi,

I have followed your steps and now I don't have a single photo(video) in my albums, recently deleted, other albums. I switched off the photo stream and icloud photo sharing. I have also synced an empty folder, so I don't have any photos in tree the Moments either.

Still, iPhone says, that I store 5,75 gb of photo and video.

Thanks for any other advice except restoring my iPhone. Because restoring from backup doesn't help.

I'm having exactly the same problem on an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.1.3. I'm pretty sure that all photos have been deleted from the device, including in the 'Recently Deleted' folder, but for some reason it says that there are still 54 photos using 5.73GB. This doesn't happen for any other data type, such as Music or Movies, which I can delete and restore at will through iTunes. This seems to be either (a) a bug, or (b) a serious usability problem.

I have found a solution.

You must buy more space in iCloud and then turn the iCloud Photo Library (beta) on. In my case, the 6 gb of photos then magically disappeared.

Hope it helps

I managed to get rid of the phantom usage. Restoring iPhone and resetting the phone settings/data do not work for me.

I got creative and moved the Date on my phone earlier by 1,2,3 months and found the phantom photos in the Recently Deleted Folder. Next, I deleted the photos manually from the Recently Deleted Folder and the usage got freed up from my iPhone.

Hope this works for you.

This has been a problem for me as well on my iPad but I did find one way to fix it without having to reset. By using a program called iFunbox you can see the "deleted photos" that are taking up space on your device. Once you plug your device into your computer and iTunes recognizes that it is there hit trust on the prompt box that comes up on the device and then open iFunbox. On the left side find Camera and there you will see the pictures. Highlight them all and right click then hit delete. Once they're gone the storage will come back on the device. Hope that helps!

Thanks a lot it worked for me 🙂

Thanks, this worked for me. Unfortunately it involves paying more money to Apple in order to provide a clunky workaround for the bug they created in the first place. But if you downgrade immediately afterwards then the cost is mere pennies, which in the end is worth it to retrieve multiple GB of storage.

Bro, you're a true genius. Congrats on your creativity and thanks a lot for sharing this with us. This Yosemite/iOS 8 pair is the s&*ttest operational system apple has ever made, everything got slow and dumb. After a decade of loyalty, I'm considering moving to another brand/system. It can't be worse than this one.

SSimply disable iCloud photo library

I have the same problem.

Apparently I'm not the only one: https://blog.tmoehle.de/ios-photo-problem/#more-369 (this goes a little more in-depth)

The storage being used isn't "phantom usage", the photos are still safely stored on the phone whether deleted or not.

When checking in iexplorer the photos are in the exact same place they were before, but don't appear on my iphone.

As long as I regularly delete all "recently deleted" images, all is good.

If I don't, the photos disappear from the "recently deleted" folder after 30 days, but still clog up space.

I've only had this issue come up on iOS 8 and I still don't know how to fix it, apart from manually double-deleting every photo -_-

I don't really want to turn on iCloud photo library. Any other suggestions?

Cheers,

SG Yoyo you are a genius!

beautiful. This worked for me. Hats off to your creative thinking 🙂