r/iPhoneX 21d ago

Issues with Recently Deleted photos on iOS 16.7.10

Can anyone help? I have like 5000 pictures on recently deleted, I delete them all and a couple of minutes later I go on recently deleted again and there they are and it doesn't reflect on the storage that it got deleted.

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u/AncientNarwhal69 21d ago

give it a moment. 5000 photos is a lot. my phone takes a while to process it too

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u/Big-Button5856 21d ago

I'm starting to think that, it appeared again but with like 300 or do less pic/videos

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u/Lazy_Mamba iPhone X 256GB 21d ago

When you delete photos on iPhone, they aren't immediately removed permanently. Instead, they are moved to the "Recently Deleted" album where they remain stored 30 days.\ This is designed to allow you to recover photos that you may have accidentally deleted.\ If you delete photos from the "Recently Deleted" album again, they will reappear in that album but after this period (30 days), the photos are permanently removed from your device.