How does 18 pictures and 2 videos take up 4GB of iCloud space?

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Videos can take up large amounts of space, 4 GB for 2 is perfectly possible, since you don't say how long they are or what resolution or frame rate.

However you may also want to look in your “Recently deleted” album to see if you have any items taking up space there.

So where does it tell you it's taking 4 GB

Does it actually say that Photos are taking up 4 GB or just that 4 GB are full.

Have you had a look at iCloud.com > Photos.

It doesn't tell you the size of the library there to the best of my knowledge, I meant do you see the same photos and videos.

Then I'm not sure.

Contact Apple iCloud supportfor assistance.

Hallo iamjosephl,

unfortunately seems to occur when many users this problem.

I have also occupied iCloud storage of deleted images.

You have 0 photos and 0 videos stored in iCloud. Your photos and videos are using 2.1 GB!

If you have a Windows computer, you can load the images on icloud for Windows, but not delete.

A Ticking at Apple I scon added on 01.03.2016, unfortunately, has the support but no solution.

Best regards

unfortunatelyseems to occurwhenmany usersthis problem.

I wasn't aware of this, could you point us to some evidence of your claim.

Hello Winston Churchill,

I hope I have understood you correctly, unfortunately my English is not quite as good.
Did you have a couple of examples where users do not have this problem:
Photo Library on Windows downloading deleted photos

You have 0 photos and 0 videos stored in iCloud. Your photos and videos are using 2.1 GB!

Deleted photos from six months ago still appearing on my PC iCloud Photo downloads- even though they're not on my phone …

0 photos and 0 videos still 1.6Gb of Photos in iCloud.

http://iszene.com/thread-178730.html

http://iszene.com/thread-177907.html

https://www.overclockers.at/apple/help-icloud-clusterfck_245305?postid=3713485

many greetings

Not all of those posts are about the same issue, of the posts that do appear to be saying that iCloud photo library is using more space than expected, I'm unable to verify from the rest of the post that this can't be properly accounted for.