iCloud Photo Library displaying wrong storage
ok basically what happens is that I currently have 2.5 GB of photos/videos stored on my iPhone and synced via iCloud Photo Library with my iPad. So again, each device shows a 2.5 GB usage as expected ....while iCloud Photo Library usage tells me it's 3.7 GB.
I know how it happened: I recorded and deleted quickly 2 videos ... meaning that there's no way they could have been uploaded but iCloud seems to consider that they were ... at least for the storage used as they are NOT on iCloud. That difference of 1.2 GB is exactly the amount of data that these two videos had locally. So ... this is reproducible, obvious bug on iCloud imo.
I was in touch with Apple Care yesterday and well ... there's nothing they can do to help except suggest to restore the iPhone as new etc... I knew it didn't make sense but I still tried it, just in case some local data corruption had triggered the issue while syncing with iCloud. So I tried that and that didn't change anything of course.
I then chose, after disconnecting both devices from iCloud Photo Library, to request that iCloud Photo Library should be completely disabled and deleted ... the result was ... 0 KB stored ... 1.2 GB used 🙂
So ... the only solution is to disable icloud photo library and wait 30 or 40 days until all is really gone and reset properly, and then sync my devices again. I do not want to do that, that's unacceptable and I need iCloud Photo Library to be up and running constantly. AirDrop is not a solution as it doesn't preserve editing steps.
ps: best argument ever heard from an apple rep: "the issue isn't so bad, you're using the free quota (5GB) and you still have some space left" 🙂
iPhone 6, iOS 8.3, null