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?

  • listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io
    9·
    16 hours ago

    Photos in iOS Trash are held for 30 days before being permanently deleted. Please go to Photos, tap “All”, scroll down to the “Utilities” section and go into “Recently Deleted”.

    Delete the photos from there and it should eventually free up the space (might take a bit for it to complete).