iPhone 6 iOS 10.2:
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Used iMazing: Selected iPhone Between left sidebar options: Pick “Camera” instead of “Photos” – kinda counterintuitive. Select All / CTRL A Delete from right Menu / or Trash icon buttton.
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Deleting 7000+ photos took a while. To test if it’s working I closed iMazing and when I got back in as before, was left with 2000 or so.
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Repeated and mostly gone. For some reason 2/300 were left and would not delete no matter what I tried via iMazing.
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So deleted it using the Photos App – Selecting from Bottom right to Top left (auto scrolls) and selects all.
- Delete & then Remove recently deleted.
Now I thought this was done; no pics or videos or anything showing inside photos/ camera roll.
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But when I look via
General > iPhone Storage and select the app:
Photos & Camera – 318 MB >
Synced from iTunes Library 70 MB
Shared Photo Stream 248.1 MB
I don’t remember using any of these above.
How can this be cleared out?
Best Answer
It is likely that a wipe and restore will fix the issue.
As the iPhone is essentially a pocket computer with a simplified and locked down interface it is difficult, at best, to get into the inner workings to apply fixes that are needed to solve a particular problem .
I have found that many issues like this are readily solved by a simple, though tedious, process.
You should now see that the space formerly occupied by (deleted) photos and the like is now freed up.