One week ago i got a 32gb ipad. Excited for the new toy, I took hundreds of stupid photos with that 720p front webcam using photobooth, downloaded them from icloud, deleted them, and now they’re in the trash.

Now the ipad is complaining it’s full memory. Full memory? What? Already? I barely used it. I investigated the issue and saw that photos are taking 4gb.

4gb? How? Saw on icloud there’s not that usage on photos:

empty icloud

The pics i took were 720p images, when i downloaded them from icloud they were like 50mb in total

Uncompressed lossless caches of old photos? How to fix this?

  • Frjttr@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    A 32GB iPad isn’t the best choice in 2025. Anyhow, have you deleted the photos in the trash?

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      21 hours ago

      LOL i thought “my 64gb iphone se 3 is enough, 32gb is gonna be enough” - while i completely forgot that the 64gb iphone was already small, in order to install ios 18 i had to wipe-install-restore because it was impossible to free enough memory