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Missing step on deleting photos to manage space.
I have been trying to free up space on my child's school iPad and noticed she had a ton of videos and photos. Note that I do not allow them to upload to iCloud so not an option for managing storage. Anyhow was frustrated in that I was deleting a lot but there was not a major change in storage space. Read your article and everything seemed fine but still no large increase in storage. What I found was that I needed to go to the Recently Deleted album and again select all items in that folder and permanently delete them. Once that was done my storage space recovered nicely. Just an FYI for someone who may be in the same boat. Really deleting needs this additional step added to article. Thanks!
I have been trying to free up space on my child's school iPad and noticed she had a ton of videos and photos. Note that I do not allow them to upload to iCloud so not an option for managing storage. Anyhow was frustrated in that I was deleting a lot but there was not a major change in storage space. Read your article and everything seemed fine but still no large increase in storage. What I found was that I needed to go to the Recently Deleted album and again select all items in that folder and permanently delete them. Once that was done my storage space recovered nicely. Just an FYI for someone who may be in the same boat. Really deleting needs this additional step added to article. Thanks!