ALL iPhones FIXED: Photo Album & Recently Deleted Album is Empty But Still Taking Up Storage Space

If you deleted all your photos and videos from your iPhones photo album gallery and the recently deleted album but storage has not decreased then watch this video closely. This will work for all iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. Note that on previous iPhones the fix was setting the date and time back one year. However for some reason this time it did not work setting it one year back, instead i had to go three years back and bam...... storage space finally decreased!

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[youngzo]

I think it’s crazy how the iPhone could make it so hard to delete pictures. There should be some lawsuit because this is forcing the phone to become obsolete

[matcha_latte]

POV: You take too much screenshots but still doesn’t want to delete them bc they are “memories”

[poweriskool]

It says; ICloud storage: 1%...
Update: I figured it out. Backup with iCloud for your photos and stuff, then reset your entire device.

[RoseInnn]

THANK YOU. Went from 317GB to 25GB 🙏. Quick tip for anyone out there, after you do what he says you may need to wait a bit (couple hours) for the storage to go down drastically. Mine went down in chunks.

[chefjlynnreeves]

This is the first video that truly gave me half of my space back. I’m so grateful and want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I have been so. Frustrated with iPhone for allowing the phone to lock up data and make you have to buy space. Done with iPhone after

[alanoud]

I only have 2 images and my photos are taking 9 gb

It's been like a year, guys, stop replying to this LOL
I've figured out what happened. My old device has like hundreds of photos and my new device shares the data, for some reason those old photos didn't come to my new device, however it still took up storage. Thanks for the help though!

[oasis]

my dude just flexing with all the apple products in the background



Edit: RIP meh notifications

[johnnygotti]

Went back to 2020 now covid once again started back up. Thank you

[gustavomorales]

It worked! Thank you. I didn’t think it would because I went back three years and there were only like two photos in “recently deleted” that I had deleted yesterday. But I still deleted and turned my iPhone off and then back on and this freed up a ton of storage for me. Thanks!

[brookeneo]

Who else is watching this in 2020 am I the only one 😂

[LishaGirli]

Idk I’m tired of my iPhone doing this these storage problems. Might switch back to android cuz wtf

I didn’t even know my comment had likes 😂 thanks for them

[JZ-mnwv]

This didn't work for me. I set the time back eight years and restarted my phone, and it's exactly the same. Mine looked a little different from yours because it specifically recommends "Save 81 (!) GB of space: Empty Recently Deleted Album" but whenever I empty it, it just comes back. My Recently Deleted album IS empty when you actually look at it, but it pops back in the storage section over and over again as taking up huge amounts of space.
iCloud is turned OFF and I've never ever used it. I am running out of space and it's space that's filled with NOTHING. So what can I do? The time thing just didn't work.

[theunknownguy]

YOU REMINDED ME OF RECENTLY DELETED PHOTOS AND NOW I HAVE SO MUCH STORAGE THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[uditapaul]

this is for those of you who still didn’t get results after doing this so my iphone photo storage became 32gb then i did what was shown in the video! it did clear out but the storage space remained 12gb then i plugged my iphone into my windows(idk whether it’s gonna work for macs but you can try) and then created a folder over a drive (works even if you’ve created it on desktop) then copied all my data into that file and then plug out! you’ll see your iphone storage refreshing!! and goes back to the actual storage! btw it worked for me you can try it out!.. not guaranteed! but it worked for me 2 times nw! also plz delete your recent deleted files in your iphone first

[wanaco]

You sir are a life saver…. 3 weeks searching for a cure to this. People go into deep detailed vids on how to erase absolutely everything to clean up the space. I did it. No need to go to those extremes… THANK YOU….

[menkisser]

I just lost connection when I did the date thing lol, and it didn’t work, ????

[VyaraHydra]

YOU TOTALLY SAVED ME, FROM A NERVOUS BREAK DOWN.
I APPRECIATE THIS VIDEO MORE THEN YOU'LL EVER KNOW !!!! <3333

THANK YOU SO MUCH <3333

[ioanak.]

Had this issue with voice memos - as I was deleting them the occupied space doubled - I changed the date as you mentioned, and from 10GB become 4.2GB - but I ended up deleting the app and reinstalling because I cannot afford to lose4gb when where are 0 files. Thanks for the suggestion

[Pyxe_ZA]

Thank gawd for this video. I had NO space left and couldn’t even get my emails. This definitely worked and now I have 20GB back 👍🏼

[jaimegav_]

That didn’t work for me but I found another option to fix it. I disabled the “iCloud Photo Library” from the Photos & Camera Settings then the Storage just went free. I hope this helps