Permanently delete recently deleted photos from iPhone

I don't think there's an option to deactivate the feature.

You can permanently erase pictures by deleting them from your "recently deleted" folder.

Problem is that iOS 8 doesn't delete your photos at all, not even after 30-40 days.

At least for me it doesn't. After installing iexplorer and looking at the files stored on my phone I found pretty much every deleted picture still there, even though it was no longer showing up on my iphone ;-)

I doubt there's a purpose, it's more of a bug.

The "recently deleted" feature is probably just broken.

Even if you set back the date on your iphone an re-delete your "recently deleted", the problem will reappear at some point in the future if you don't regularly clean said folder.

I really hope the next iOS Update includes a fix -_- and an option to deactivate "recently deleted".

Here's a blog post about the issue: https://blog.tmoehle.de/ios-photo-problem/

You can your "recently deleted". If you want to know if they have been deleted permanently, you can go to Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically > Off > manually set date to 2 years earlier > recheck recently deleted folder.

Thank you, that help 100%

Go in to your "Recently Deleted" folder and delete from there.

Do you mean you want to erase the photos from 'Recently Deleted' or your iPhone? As far as I know, you should use some iPhone eraser tool to do this to avoid restoring the photos from your iPhone.

No, this will not remove the data from iCloud. This is so you can sync up the new device to the data in iCloud. That way you don't have to re-enter it all again.

If you want to remove all the data from iCloud you should first erase all the datafrom the Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Reminders and Notes apps as well as delete any back ups and any Document and Data that used iCloud.

You can also log in to your account at iCloud.com and erase it from there.

Thank you for the help, it worked for me.

plug your iphone into you computer. On a mac open iPhotos. Import> and select "delete on import'. this will upload and save all your iphone photos and you'll see on your iphone photos, that they are deleting. No need to slect every photo one by one and you can bypass 'recently deleted.