Photo Storage taking up too much of iPhone storage

Try a forced restart:

Force restart iPhone - Apple Support

This is different from a simple Power Off. I had to continue holding the button down past the "slide to power off" message, and then I released the button only after  the Apple Logo appeared indicating a re-start. 

The phone is very concerned with slowing down your work, so it doesn't spend its time recalculating those numbers -- since it doesn't really matter what it says, it may take days to see a change. The numbers at best are just an estimate. As Captain Barbosa would say, "They're more like guidelines, anyway."

_MHayes_ wrote:

I use google photos that’s where I keep all my photos. I don’t have any photos in the apple photo app besides shared albums. The deleted album is wiped cleaned, I even turned off iCloud for photos in hopes that it would fix my issues but no avail. Are my shared albums the issue? I read on here that they were stored in the cloud and shouldn’t take up any physical space in the phone. But I can’t figure out the issue.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/9eaa961f-dbe5-4f46-8ace-83a63b502f7f

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/951a2967-d5e9-4142-937c-47cb889cdcda

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/7bd2e4d3-e0fd-4fdd-a3fd-75fbd7c15180

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/481d3f4c-80bb-4e58-aaf0-05c2247a2db5

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Review large attachments and delete what you don't need.