Photo stream taking up storage but no photos in photo stream , so confused

I am using the IPhone 4 with ios6 version. When I go to settings and click on photo/camera it says 430mb on camera roll and 4.1kb used in photo stream. So when I go to the photo app to delete photos I click on photo stream tab it says I have no photo's in photo stream. What is going on and how can I delete those photos to create more storage?

Go to Settings > iCloud > Photos and make sure the options are turned off. If they are on, turn them off.

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Hey EmilyEliza,
As you are clearly aware, it is important for you to have backups of your important data, including all of these photos you are currently keeping on your iPhone. While it is possible to use iTunes or iCloud to do backups of your iPhone, the problem becomes how to access those backups if you have deleted the photos from your iPhone. Once you have done the backup and then removed the photos from the iPhone, the only way to access the photos is by restoring the backups to the phone. See this article for information about backups made from the iPhone -
Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support
If you want to easily access the photos once they are off of the iPhone, another approach to this would be to import your photos from the iPhone into an application on your Mac, such as iPhoto. To learn how to do this, use the steps in this article -
Import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your Mac or Windows PC - Apple Support
Once those photos are on your computer, it is still important to back up those photos to somewhere else, so you can be sure of their safety before removing them from the iPhone. Your Mac’s Time Machine application is one method of doing this -
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Happy computing,
Brett L

Photo stream taking up storage but no photos in photo stream , so confused

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