I have the iPhone 6, running iOS 9.1, I had lots of videos (many were multiple minutes long) that took up too much space, I started with (according to my settings app) about 400 megabytes free, after posting the videos to youtube and deleting the videos from my phone, it says I still have about 400 megabytes free. Whats the deal? I've synced my phone to my computer and the iTunes program says I have 1.6 gigs free. Is my phone just displaying incorrectly?
IOS – Why is the phone not making space after I delete multiple long videos
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If you are jailbroken, you can use iCleaner:
Source: http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/37323/160771/160771.jpg
Message attachments: it deletes files sent and received via iMessage or MMS. The “smart” setting only deletes files that do not show up in any message, while “on” deletes all attachments (messages with attachments will show a blank icon).
Source: http://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/icleaner-ultimate-ios-device-cleaning-app
You should try the following:
- If you have it, do try with iMovie. (Menu “File” -> “Import Media…”)
- Try AirDrop. You have to be on iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite for AirDrop to work between an iPhone and a Mac though.
- If you can successfully make a backup of your iPhone using iTunes, I can walk you through the retrieving of the video from the iTunes backup.
- If you can upload the video to YouTube, there are ways to download videos from YouTube. It’s way easier than you might think actually.
Don’t hesitate to comment for questions and precisions.
By all means, if you can get the reason why the transfer fails with Image Capture, please tell us, it will probably help (see my comment on your question).
Best Answer
iOS is keeping you safe by saving all deleted videos and photos in a special album called
Recently Deleted. The media files in there gets deleted after 30 days.In order to free up the "imaginary space" that you think you got after deleting, empty out this album and you should see an increase of free space.