Why do photos take up so much space on my phone?

I have an iPhone 5, 16 gigs. I have 174 photos and 22 videos and it says that the photos take up 3.6g of my memory... My friend has over 2k photos and hers is at 4gigs. I saved my photos to iPhoto and I deleted all my photos and ran a test, I made sure photos were at 0gigs; Then i took 30 random photos and checked and it said that it took up 124mbs. 30 photos 124mbs. I don't understand why my photos take up so much space. I also bought the Beyonce album when it came out and thats the only music I bought and it says it takes up 1.1gigs and the 17 videos are at 974 mbs. help????

Import the photos to your computer, then sync them back with iTunes. The photos will be reduced in size and quality to fit on the iPhone without taking as much space as the original pictures.
Also make sure not to use HDR mode if you do not need that feature.
After you import your photos from Camera Roll or Saved Photos, you can use iTunes to sync them back to your device.
copied from iOS: Improve backup and restore times by importing Camera Roll or Saved Photos

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An "other" larger than about 1 1/2 GB usually indicates that the "other" includes corrupted files.
First try:
"First you go settings/general/usage/music/then left swipe over music and press delete and you would think it deletes your music but it doesn't instead it deletes your other but make sure your ipod is connected to a computer while doing this"
as recommended by:
How do I get rid of "other" storage: Apple Support Communities
Next, usually restoring from backup eliminated the corrupted files. However, sometimes restoring to factory settings/new iPod is required.
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up

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I got an iPhone 5s 16 GB at the end of June 2014. I keep running out of memory and when I recently plugged my phone into iTunes, I noticed that "other" is taking up around 3 GB of space. I know the usual delete pictures and browsing history spiel, and I've done it all. People also say that Settings>General>Usage>Manage Storage is a good way to tell what is taking up space, but I went there and manually added all of the numbers and they only add up to 8.6 GB vs the 11.6 that my phone says is occupied, leaving an extra 3 GB unaccounted for and confirming my suspicions that "other" is not included in this. People keep telling me it's the operating system but isn't that already taken out of the original 16 GB and why you really only have 12 GB of storage to begin with? As I was looking through different forums and discussions, people kept saying to restore the iPhone from the iTunes backup and I am wondering if that would actually work...does anyone have experience with this? (Also would this delete my apps and music as well? I'm not very familiar with the restore from backup and could not really find any good information on it.) Do I just have to live with "other" eating up this much space on my phone? I've had iPods and I have an iPad, and I've never had this problem. Any help at all would be very appreciated, as this is very frustrating. Thanks.

ihaveapetfish wrote:
I got an iPhone 5s 16 GB at the end of June 2014. I keep running out of memory and when I recently plugged my phone into iTunes, I noticed that "other" is taking up around 3 GB of space. I know the usual delete pictures and browsing history spiel, and I've done it all. People also say that Settings>General>Usage>Manage Storage is a good way to tell what is taking up space, but I went there and manually added all of the numbers and they only add up to 8.6 GB vs the 11.6 that my phone says is occupied, leaving an extra 3 GB unaccounted for and confirming my suspicions that "other" is not included in this. People keep telling me it's the operating system but isn't that already taken out of the original 16 GB and why you really only have 12 GB of storage to begin with? As I was looking through different forums and discussions, people kept saying to restore the iPhone from the iTunes backup and I am wondering if that would actually work...does anyone have experience with this? (Also would this delete my apps and music as well? I'm not very familiar with the restore from backup and could not really find any good information on it.) Do I just have to live with "other" eating up this much space on my phone? I've had iPods and I have an iPad, and I've never had this problem. Any help at all would be very appreciated, as this is very frustrating. Thanks.
That is normal size for others.. mine is around 2 GB.
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Hello chinchillababiz,
After reviewing your post, I have located an article that can help with iOS storage. It contains helpful advice and information that may assist you in managing your data:
See how much storage you've used on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
If your device is near its capacity or you get an alert that your storage is full, you can remove some of your less used content to make room for more.
View storage usage on your iOS device
Tap Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage to see the amount of space each app and its content takes on your device.
Tap an app for more detailed information about its usage.
Depending on the app, you might be able to delete some of the app's content, or delete the app and all of its content.
View storage usage for your iOS device in iTunes
When you connect your device and select it in iTunes, you'll see your usage by content type:
Audio: Songs, audio podcasts, audiobooks, voice memos, and ringtones
Video: Movies, music videos, and TV shows
Photos: Camera Roll contents, Photo Stream, and Photo Library
Apps: Installed apps
Books: iBooks books and PDF files
Documents & Data: App content such as contacts, calendars, messages, emails, and their attachments, Safari Offline Reading List, and files that you've created in your apps
Other: Settings, Siri voices, and other system data
Hover your mouse over the content type for more information about usage.
iTunes displays how much space the selected songs, videos, audiobooks, and apps use in the status bar on the bottom of the screen. You can also see this information by selecting an item and then choosing File > Get Info. The size is available in the Summary tab.
You can transfer or sync content to your computer from your device. If you want to remove certain types of content from your device, learn how to manually manage content using iTunes.
Learn more
Learn more about storage capacity on OS X and iOS.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
BobbyD

I have a 16GB iPhone 4s and currently I have around 100MB left. It says my photos take up 6.34 GB I really am unsure how because I only have 252 pictures on my phone (not including the 5 photos I've on my Photo Stream).Why does it take up so much space?

I have less than a GB of apps and just over a GB with Other... To be fair I have around 22 videos which people have previously said in the past is my problem but I still can't see how because in total they all add up to 35.59... I've had a go deleting absolutely everything (including apps, photos, texts, history on the phone, websites etc) and still my phone is out of memory. my sister has about 200 photos and on her phone it only takes up around 3GB ?
If anyone has any suggestions or ideas it would be appreciated...
(I am very reluctant to putting all my photos on my computer and deleting them off of my phone at the moment because I don't trust they're safe incase one day my laptop is wiped or something).
Thank you,
Lauren

Make a backup of your laptops hard drive to an external hard drive or a thumb drive.
Videos take up a lot of memory. One second of videos is like dozens of pictures. How much time, in total minutes & seconds, do all 22 of these videos add up to?

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I'm trying to free up some space on my iPad2, and see "other" is usiong 6.7 gigs.. What exactly is "other"?

Actually "other" is app data, Safari Bookmarks, calendar entries, text messages, notes, Safari History, email messages and things like that - stuff associated with apps - but not the apps themselves or any other media.
Your "other" should be nowhere near 6.7 GB. You had a corrupt sync. You can try restarting, the iPad, rebooting it by holding down on the home and sleep buttons at the same time until the Apple logo appears or unsync all photos and music and then resync all photos and music.
However, many times you need to restore the device to factory settings and then restore from a backup in order to reduce that bloated size. That should probably be no more than 1 GB and more likely between 200 and 750 MB in total size.

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F1019_1.ithmb (this file has not been modified since Jan 2007, and was created and last opened Oct 2006; it is 500.3MB, which is exactly the size of the 2 files below this one!)
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