Can't delete iPhone Photos from Recently Deleted

I intended to free up my storage on my Iphone 11 max pro, so I tried to delete the photos. But when I see the photo numbers, it won’t decrease and the photos that I’ve deleted still there. Plus I can’t clear up my recently deleted photos. What should I do?


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iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Jun 16, 2020 02:05 AM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2020 11:53 PM

My photo stream is off and currently using ICloud photo, but I haven’t updated Icloud photo for the past few days.


But yesterday I restart my phone and it’s back to normal now. If I met this kind of problem again, I’ll try that method as well. Thank you so much for the advice! 👍

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Jun 16, 2020 02:31 AM in response to Gwen512

Which album are you viewing, when you are trying to delete photos?

If you are viewing the All Photos view and are having My Photo Stream enabled, you may not be able to delete the photos, that are still in my Photo Stream. These are also shown in All Photos.

Are you using My Photo Stream or iCloud Photos?


If you cannot empty Recently Deleted, the album may be too full. Try to select only small batches of photos in recently Deleted, to reduce the number of items there.


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