5.7 GB of storage is being used for the Photos & Camera app, even though I have NO photos. Why is this???

Hey jberkey27,

Thanks for the question. If I understand correctly, the phone says that you are still using space for photos that you deleted. I would recommend that you read these articles, they may be helpful in troubleshooting your issue.

Force an app to close in iOS - Apple Support

Restart or reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

iCloud: Restore or set up your iOS device from iCloud

You did not mention that there was an option for recently deleted. If you change the time on the iPhone does it appear?

iOS: Troubleshooting issues with date and time - Apple Support

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Mario

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One of our fellow users (txforever) found a solution to this.

Go to Settings>General>Date & Time> and set your date back to September of 2014

Return to your photos. Although it may appear as if there are no photos there (it may read "0"), there should be some that need to be deleted.

-Ethan

See: Why does my iOS device show more photos than I actually have?

No problem 🙂!

-Ethan

this fixed mine, too! I have an iPad Air that was showing 13.7G of used space, but in reality only a handful (<25) photos on the iPad. For some reason, setting the date to an earlier date (I used Sept 1, 2014) made visible all the photos that were still sitting in the Delete Photos folder. I opened that and deleted them all again, and set date back to auto.

I had taken this iPad to the Apple Store for Genius support and they couldn't figure it out. Their only suggestion was to backup to iTunes and then to a restore from backup. This didn't solve the problem, but Ethan's fix did. Thanks!!

Apple should take note of this fix so their tech folks are aware and figure out what's causing it in the first place.

Thank YOU ALL!

Setting the time back really did work.

What kind of a "glitch" is that?

Apple really should fix, or maybe storage being filled yields more new phone sales...

fnhateappleschemes wrote:

Apple really should fix, or maybe storage being filled yields more new phone sales...

It is fixed. It was a bug in an earlier version that was fixed in iOS 8.4, however, the fix could not recover photos taken earlier. But it shouldn't happen again.