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:
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?
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).
You have to empty the trash. Also turn off the ”live” photos, turn off sending statistics to Apple, turn on off loading unused apps. sync with iTunes on a computer every week or so. this will clear the system/crash logs out of memory.
Where is the statistics button in the current iOS?
Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements
A 32GB iPad isn’t the best choice in 2025. Anyhow, have you deleted the photos in the trash?
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
