iPhone storage issues

[W12GT]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the usual iPhone storage almost full message appear. So over the last two days I have deleted over 4gb of photos and videos and deleted the apps I don’t use.

I’ve just got the warning again and rather coincidentally nearly 4gb has been added. I’ve only taken a couple of photos and that’s it!

Anyone else found this? I’m suspicious of them trying to sell iCloud data so can Apple be doing something in the background?

[littleredrooster]

Do I vaguely remember that it has to be either backed-up or re-booted for the space to be fully 'seen' by the OS after doing this?

[romeodelta]

The photos go into some kind of recently deleted folder for 30 days IIRC.

Dig it out and delete them permanently.

[gr1340]

Have you tried optimised storage space for photos?
The high resolution images are stored on the server with lower res versions on your phone:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204264

[craigjm]

Red rooster and Romeo both state things you need to do as a first step.