Photos gone from my iPhone
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (52142)
Staten Island, New York
September 30, 2022 4:49pm CST
I have an iPhone 6S. It has 16 GB of storage. It is pretty much maxed out. At times I keep getting a message telling me that my iPhone is full and to free up storage. But whenever I look at the storage it never says I have 16 GB used up. It's always slightly less. Whenever I remove something to free up space (attachments, photos, apps) it doesn't decrease by much and it doesn't last for long.
I went to look at my photos yesterday and noticed that there are only 16 photos. These are the last ones I took. Then there is a message telling me "Uploading paused for 1,288 photos." This has never happened to me before. I guess the system did it to free up space on the phone, though it shows that my iPhone storage is pretty much used up anyway.
I guess that is a sign that I need a new iPhone. I have to figure out which one to get. I am not sure I want to part with the round button on the bottom. And I have to get my mom to come with me to AT&T because I am on my mom's family plan so I can't upgrade without her.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
Do you pay for iCloud storage?
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@NJChicaa (127116)
• United States
1 Oct 22
@lovebuglena no but there is a limit to storage. I don't know if it changes based on the phone you paid for. I know that my ex had to buy extra storage at one point. I never have had to. I'm now at the mid-level iPhone 13. He says I'll never fill it up.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
1 Oct 22
Good luck deciding on which phone to get. I don't know how to get photos off my phone; so I haven't taken any yet. Besides that, it's a basic flip phone; and I don't know how many pixels the photos are. Probably not too good as the phone was $29.99! Have you found a dress yet?
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
Nope. Didn’t have a chance to really go look, except once when I got a dress but it wasn’t fit for a wedding.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
I like the button on my phone and I don’t want a phone that’s big. Gotta see which iPhone is like that.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
2 Oct 22
@lovebuglena I like the new smartphone flip phones. They are smaller which I like. I'll still stick with my old basic flip phone though.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
The photos aren’t gone as they are on the cloud but I still wanna be able to look at them on my phone.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Sep 22
Your photos aren't "gone". They've been uploaded to your iCloud account online. When you get the new iPhone and you sign into your account, you can tell it to return the photos to your phone and they will zip right back onto it.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
30 Sep 22
@lovebuglena You should buy a good Android phone. It only sends photos off the phone to a cloud account if you tell it to send them. And most Android phones can accept an SD card to expand the memory capacity of the phone. (My Android accepts up to 2 TB SD card.)
I have literally hours of videos and tons of photos stored on the SD card.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
30 Sep 22
@DaddyEvil Not a fan of Android phones. Maybe the iPhone also has that setting where you can prevent it from sending photos to the cloud... But I gotta cave in and get a new phone.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
30 Sep 22
They are gone from my phone though. They are not physically there so I can't look at them if I want to.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Oct 22
I hope you get the kind of phone you need. Do you have a laptop in which you could store your photos?
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
I have a laptop, yes. I have iCloud for windows and can see these photos on my laptop.
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@MarieCoyle (59105)
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30 Sep 22
I had an IPhone 6 until last Christmas. They can no longer be updated by Apple. Mine still worked but I was having a few issues. I now have a 12, mini. It’s not that little. And it upgrades itself regularly. The 6 model was made in 2014. , we are fortunate they lasted like they did.
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@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
30 Sep 22
I have it since 2015 or 2016. It did last for a while. Does the 12 have the button?
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@MarieCoyle (59105)
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30 Sep 22
@lovebuglena
I don't think any of them have had that round button at the bottom for a long time now. I don't miss the button.
@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
30 Sep 22
@MarieCoyle Maybe the latest SE one has it?
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@KristenH (33591)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
1 Oct 22
Oh wow. That's a lot of photos. Can you contact Apple to see if they fix the issue? I hope you can get your mom too.
@lovebuglena (52142)
• Staten Island, New York
1 Oct 22
I was still able to view all my photos until now, even when I kept getting a message that my iPhone storage is full. So I wonder what changed that I can't anymore.
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