iOS Photo library wrong size

I had 4.2 GBs of space chewed up in my Photos even after clearing the Recently Deleted folder. I tried this and that did the trick! Thank you for that!

OUTSTANDING !! PERFECT !

Thank you!!!! This time hacking trick brought me from 7 gigs to 530MB! Life changer, right there. I thought I was going totally bananas.

hi lawrence,

I tried your method but it didn't work for me sorry

the issue that I'm experiencing is that on my camera roll I have only 8 pictures and I don't have anything on the recently deleted folder but when I go to

SETTINGS/GENERAL/USAGE/MANAGE STORAGE/PHOTOS AND CAMERA

I see that photo library is taking 124 MB but I only have 8 pictures I tried your method of the date and time I still don't find anything on the recently deleted folder

and when I go to itunes I see 8 pictures and size is 24 MB but on the photo library it shows 124 MB

PLEASE HELP ME

Iphone 5S IOS 8.3

Go to Settings/General/About and see how many photos are listed there. If it is more than 8 you have data corruption that SHOULD be able to be fixed by following Why does my iOS device say I have more photos than I can find?

Are any of those photos taken as HDR, which includes multiple images for one photo?

However, 124 MB is a VERY small amount of data.

Hi lawrence,

First thank you for your response lawrence I really appreciate it

so, I went to the about section and I just found 8 pics

I just deleted 4 pics of my camera roll and on the photo library it shows 113MB

and on the about section it shows 4 pics

but when I go to itunes it shows 4 pics but only 13 MB so itunes shows me the correct size of the pics

so if the size of my pics is 13MB but on photo library it show 113MB so that means that photo library is taking 100MB

but from where does the photo library is taking that much of MB and why??

please lawrence help me

Connect the phone to your computer. Click on its icon in iTunes. Click Backup. When that finishes click Restore iPhone... This will reload iOS, then restore your backup you just made. And it may eliminate the other 100MB, which are probably data corruption.

This fixed it for my wife's phone, as well! She made the mistake of buying the 16 GB iPhone 6 and was down to her last 100 MB.

Thanks!

KellyJF

Thank you for helping me figure why my photos folder size was too big!!! My hero!! We couldn't figure why settings was telling us we had 1.5gb in photos and camera on our ipad2 when the folder was empty! You ROCK! And I too registered just so I could say thanks, and give this answer a boost!

I tried re-setting the automatic to manual time trick, but for me it did not work. (I also tried 4 yrs, and the exact date I shot my first iPhone photo.) When I opened iTunes with the time set two years back it first showed some smaller fotos library, only to expand to the 13,9 GB for 167 fotos.

I don't sync my iphone with iTunes. I'm using iExplorer for I need to move my videos to folders on external hard drives I'm using for video editing.

Any idea what else I can do?

Thanx in advance

Ulli