iTunes says I have photos on iPhone but there are non there!

It has to do with Recently Deleted photos. First, go into General settings and turn off "set automatically", then set the date back a year or so (i.e. 2014). Now go into the photos app and choose Albums, the "Recently Deleted" album will say 0 but when you click on it, there will be lots of old photos there. Select all and delete and now you've got your space back!

On iOS10 (and previous I'm sure) - for anyone who still has this hassle - go to your Camera App.

• Click the Icon to show your Photo Library.
• Choose All Photos (top right).
• Choose Albums (bottom left).
• Choose Recently Deleted.
• Delete All.

No need to change the date.

The iPhone stores your deleted images for 30 days (??) before actually deleting them.

If anyone knows of a preference to stop this behaviour I would be appreciative of a reply.

OK EVERYONE I GOT IT. I had the same crap 1.99 gig, here's what I did, turn on icloud storage and let it upload them all. It seems they store some optimized pics or something. . Or something to that effect. The usage of pictures is gone and I got my storage back. I found Icloud on your computer drive kill the pics. I dont think you need to but I did. Then turn it off icloud pictures .I turned off all icloud as im sick of them trying to get me to buy more storage.

Thanks for this. I have the same problem - 38 photos that iTunes says are on my iPhone, but there are none there in any form. So I have turned on iCloud . . .and lo and behold, it started uploading the 38 nonexistent photos to iCloud! However, after about half an hour it still had not finished, so I gave up . . . the iPhone says I have about 4GB of free space (up from 22MB!), but iTunes still says those 38 photos are there, taking up 122MB. Guess I'll try again!

I have a problem where my phone has 7 videos but it has me in for 148 videos. Trying to get this up...want to try this tip but where in General setting do I find "set automatically". I'm looking all over and can't find this.

UPDATE:: Found it: under date and time. Holy smokes this worked. Thanks!

This worked!!! Even though I had already cleared out my "recently deleted" and still nothing showed up there, once I set the date back and then reset it automatically, I freed up 2.2GB!!!!! Thanks.

Thank you!!!! I don't know how you figured this out, but I love you! I am leaving for vacation in a few hours and wanted to load some movies on my sons iPad before our 13 hour flight and was dismayed to see he had 7 gb of photos on his 16gb iPad!

I had this problem as well, ** discovered it is an easy fix. Open your photo library App on your phone. Next, on the bottom line, tap the "Albums" tab. There you will find a self generated album titled "Recently Deleted". Tap open that file and you see all your previously taken photos and videos that you thought were deleted but in reality, are not. Now, on the bottom line, click "Delete All". Your phone memory is now cleared up and ready for use.

Thank you! I was at the Apple Store for help with technician and he was baffled. Erased and reset my phone. When I mentioned googling for the answer he kind of smirked. Well, I guess my idea was better! Thanks a million!

Thank you so much! I have missed out on so many photo ops because of these mystery photos and videos. Setting the date back never entered my mind. I was surprised that the stuck pics/vids were only from Christmas 2014 and were already uploaded to my computer and deleted from the phone.

When I deleted each file from the album they were in, each one then popped up in my photos .... very annoying to have to deleted them all once again. But they are gone and I gained 6 gigs of memory!

So again, thank you so much ... genius :O

Jan

Oh thank you thank you- my iPhone kept showing that I have around 1800 photos even though I have deleted every photoand searched for days as to why I couldn't take any photos.. This worked and I'm delighted As I gained back arouNd 7GB and can take photos! Huge thank you!

I turned on "Show All Videos", but none showed up anywhere for me to delete them. Help? 16GB phone with 275 supposed photos taking up 4.74 GB. Thank you.

I assu me there are videos, too. When you turned on "show all videos", did they show up in photo roll, or what?

Thanks,

Mike