I've deleted most of my photos from my phone but it still shows I have a lot of memory taken up by the "Photo Library". How do I free up the storage there?

I've deleted most of my photos from my phone but it still shows I have a lot of memory taken up by the "Photo Library", in fact the memory used hasn't changed. How do I free up the storage there?

iPhone 5, iOS 9.2

Posted on Jan 2, 2016 12:21 AM

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Jan 3, 2016 11:43 AM in response to Andresui

Howdy Andresui,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities.


It sounds like you're running into an issue freeing up storage space on your iPhone 5, you want to know how to reduce the storage space taken by your Photo library. The article below provides a lot of great information about storage on iOS devices and it also help you reduce the size of the Photo library on your iPhone 5.

Check your storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

To reduce the size of your Photo library, turn on iCloud Photo Library and optimize your device storage.


Ciao.

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