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So I go under settings>storage>photos and camera, and it tells me I have 4.9gb of stuff in there. . . I have 46 photos, and that is it.
checked every album, even recently deleted. Workin with an iPad Air 2. Trying to free up space for music.
iPad Air, iOS 8.1, iPad Air 2
Go to Settings>General>Date and Time. Set the date to about a year ago. Then go to the photos app and tap on the recently deleted album. If there are photos that appear in there, delete them. Then go back and change the date to automatic again.
Check to see if that clears up the storage.
BTW, you really need to clear out space. 42 MB of free space isn't nearly enough. You need space for app data caches, fragmentation and so on. If you cut it too close, you can experience all kinds of issues and device crashes.
Go to Settings>General>Date and Time. Set the date to about a year ago. Then go to the photos app and tap on the recently deleted album. If there are photos that appear in there, delete them. Then go back and change the date to automatic again.
Check to see if that clears up the storage.
BTW, you really need to clear out space. 42 MB of free space isn't nearly enough. You need space for app data caches, fragmentation and so on. If you cut it too close, you can experience all kinds of issues and device crashes.
TThat won't erase my important info will it? Documents and song files?
This worked great for me. Thanks so much.
Phreakness wrote:
TThat won't erase my important info will it? Documents and song files?
NO. It will not erase anything except for the phantom photo storage, assuming that is what is causing this problem for you. However, just to reiterate, if that screenshot that is showing 41.2 MB of free space is the real deal, you need to clear out more space on your iPad or you could have other problems like random crashes.
Photos and camera storage issue
