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What's taking up 7.64GB worth of Photos if I don't have any on my iPhone?
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Byte" data-source="post: 1935751" data-attributes="member: 412299"><p>I appreciate the reply. I took a look at the link you posted; I think I have an understanding of what "Documents & Data" ("D&D") are, in general, and how they relate to individual apps. Unfortunately, while the link explains how to delete the D&D from specific apps, none of the apps on my phone take up an inordinate amount of storage space - except, of course, the Photos app, which is the topic of this thread.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is why I'm frustrated: I have 0 photos and 0 videos on my phone (because I constantly transfer them to my MBP, and then delete them from my iPhone along with emptying the "Recently Deleted" cache); and I don't sync my photos to iCloud. On the other hand, you have over 12,000 photos and only have about 3GB of D&D in iPhotos! How?! Why?!</p><p></p><p></p><p>I haven't tried to reinstall the iOS, and don't know how to do so. I'm also worried that I may muck something up if I try to do it. What do you think reinstall the iOS will do?</p><p></p><p>Regarding images in my Files app, I only have a couple of them: the GarageBand file ("My Song") is only 248KB; and the Documents file ("About Stacks") is only 7.9MB.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To answer your questions:</p><p></p><p>1. I don't know what resolution I use for photos/videos, I only use the defaults when taking a video using the Camera app or recording audio in GarageBand. But, as mentioned above, I regularly delete photos/videos and audio recordings as soon as I transfer them to my MBP.</p><p></p><p>2. Yes, I empty the "Recently Deleted" files as soon as I transfer them to my MBP.</p><p></p><p>_______________</p><p></p><p></p><p>So, I'm really at a loss as to what to do, and it seems that things are getting worse regarding storage space being used up on my iPhone.</p><p></p><p>When I first created this thread, I posted a screenshot of my iPhone showing that 38.1GB of 64GB of storage was used on my iPhone, with 7.64GB being used up by Photos. Today, I took another look, and I now have 49.4GB of 64GB of storage used on my iPhone. Comparing the two screenshots, I am not concerned that the Music storage has increased about 2.5GB since I created this thread, as I have been putting more of my music collection on my iPhone. But, where did the extra 7.5GB of data come from?</p><p></p><p>Here's the screenshot:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]38704[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I compared my iPhone to my iPad, and, even though they are synced between each other (and my MBP), it only shows 28GB of 64GB used.</p><p></p><p>Here's a screenshot:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]38705[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Regarding how much space the Photos app takes up on my iPad, I had to scroll far down the list of apps, as it only takes up 120.1MB of data.</p><p></p><p>Here's a screenshot:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]38707[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>At this point, I don't know what to do. I'll consider reinstalling the iOS as suggested, but I'll need to know how to do that without running into any issues.</p><p></p><p>I've searched the web, and the only other thing that's come up is to use the "date trick" outlined in this Reddit link: [MEDIA=reddit]iphone/comments/zzoqdj[/MEDIA]. Any idea if that will work?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for everyone's help trying to resolve this form me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Byte, post: 1935751, member: 412299"] I appreciate the reply. I took a look at the link you posted; I think I have an understanding of what "Documents & Data" ("D&D") are, in general, and how they relate to individual apps. Unfortunately, while the link explains how to delete the D&D from specific apps, none of the apps on my phone take up an inordinate amount of storage space - except, of course, the Photos app, which is the topic of this thread. This is why I'm frustrated: I have 0 photos and 0 videos on my phone (because I constantly transfer them to my MBP, and then delete them from my iPhone along with emptying the "Recently Deleted" cache); and I don't sync my photos to iCloud. On the other hand, you have over 12,000 photos and only have about 3GB of D&D in iPhotos! How?! Why?! I haven't tried to reinstall the iOS, and don't know how to do so. I'm also worried that I may muck something up if I try to do it. What do you think reinstall the iOS will do? Regarding images in my Files app, I only have a couple of them: the GarageBand file ("My Song") is only 248KB; and the Documents file ("About Stacks") is only 7.9MB. To answer your questions: 1. I don't know what resolution I use for photos/videos, I only use the defaults when taking a video using the Camera app or recording audio in GarageBand. But, as mentioned above, I regularly delete photos/videos and audio recordings as soon as I transfer them to my MBP. 2. Yes, I empty the "Recently Deleted" files as soon as I transfer them to my MBP. _______________ So, I'm really at a loss as to what to do, and it seems that things are getting worse regarding storage space being used up on my iPhone. When I first created this thread, I posted a screenshot of my iPhone showing that 38.1GB of 64GB of storage was used on my iPhone, with 7.64GB being used up by Photos. Today, I took another look, and I now have 49.4GB of 64GB of storage used on my iPhone. Comparing the two screenshots, I am not concerned that the Music storage has increased about 2.5GB since I created this thread, as I have been putting more of my music collection on my iPhone. But, where did the extra 7.5GB of data come from? Here's the screenshot: [ATTACH type="full" alt="23.10.12 MAC 011 iPhone Storage.PNG"]38704[/ATTACH] I compared my iPhone to my iPad, and, even though they are synced between each other (and my MBP), it only shows 28GB of 64GB used. Here's a screenshot: [ATTACH type="full" alt="23.10.12 MAC 012 iPad Storage.PNG"]38705[/ATTACH] Regarding how much space the Photos app takes up on my iPad, I had to scroll far down the list of apps, as it only takes up 120.1MB of data. Here's a screenshot: [ATTACH type="full" alt="23.10.12 MAC 013 iPad Storage.PNG"]38707[/ATTACH] At this point, I don't know what to do. I'll consider reinstalling the iOS as suggested, but I'll need to know how to do that without running into any issues. I've searched the web, and the only other thing that's come up is to use the "date trick" outlined in this Reddit link: [MEDIA=reddit]iphone/comments/zzoqdj[/MEDIA]. Any idea if that will work? Thanks for everyone's help trying to resolve this form me. [/QUOTE]
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