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iPhone storage photo

The iPhone storage is full.

I started cleaning up my phone and deleted photos from the past 3 years, but the photo storage isn’t decreasing. In iCloud, there are only 4 GB of photos, there are no recently deleted photos, and the phone keeps restarting.

Help, has anyone had this problem?


Хранилище iPhone заполнено. Я начала очищать телефон и удалила фотографии за последние три года, но память не уменьшается. В iCloud всего 4 ГБ фотографий, в папке «Недавно удалённые» ничего нет, а телефон продолжает перезагружаться. Кто-нибудь может помочь? Кто-нибудь сталкивался с такой проблемой?»

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Many operations use the iPhone's empty storage space to move files around. If you run out of storage, then those operations may not be able to be completed and, ironically, that can mean that even deleting doesn't work. If you have less than 10% available, then things can get lost forever. This is also true if your iCloud storage space gets low.


If you have no storage to manipulate files, then you may need to backup the phone (if you can) and reset it.


Back up iPhone - Apple Support


After deleting the photos have you gone into the "Recently Deleted" album? Photos won't immediately be removed once you delete them, they will sit in "Recently Deleted" for 30 days, and then be removed. And even then the iPhone may not release the space used up until it does its own internal cleanup.


Quickest way to release the space is to make sure the photos have been deleted from the Recently deleted folder and then restart the iPhone so it can release the space.

You seem to be using Optimize with your iCloud Photos, so each picture takes up maybe 0.0003 GB or less-- you won't win a lot of space by deleting pictures. And I see that you have said that you have removed everything from Recently Deleted.


If you can remove apps or apps data, that might get you somewhere. But your first need is to back up your phone.


Похоже, вы используете функцию «Оптимизация хранилища» для фотографий в iCloud, поэтому каждое изображение занимает примерно 0,0003 ГБ или даже меньше — удаление фотографий не позволит существенно освободить место. К тому же, как вы отметили, вы уже удалили все файлы из папки «Недавно удаленные».


Возможно, поможет удаление приложений или данных приложений. Но прежде всего вам нужно создать резервную копию данных телефона.