Iphone 5S Saying 'cannot Take Photo'

[shivvy]

My iphone 5s throws up a message saying that there is not enough available storage to take a photo. I have deleted loads of pictures and videos and music but the message still appears.

What do I need to do?

Thanks

[Buenchico]

How much storage does your phone report as being available?

(See here if you don't know how to find out: http://www.ianswerguy.com/not-enough-storage/ )

[shivvy]

Thanks Buenchico.

It says that 4.1 MB is available.

[Buenchico]

An iPhone 5 photo might only be around 2 or 3Mb in size but (because of the way that file compression works) an image with a lot of detail in it could be quite a bit bigger. Your phone probably needs at least 5Mb (and possibly rather more) memory available in order to be able to take a single photograph.

You'll need to look at what's really taking up your phone's memory, which is likely to be an excessive number of apps. So delete anything that you don't actually use and check the available memory again.

This might be useful:
http://artoftheiphone.com/2012/08/05/tip-view-a-list-of-all-your-iphone-apps-sorted-by-size/

[shivvy]

Thanks again.

I have deleted some more pictures and apps too.
I have also deleted all music from my phone.

I'm quite good at regularly moving pics and vids from my iphone to my laptop. However I always thought that an iphone was able to store quite a few pics & music etc?
If I deleted much more (esp apps) I would have to say that my phone wasn't really working for me very well. I would have thought that I would be quite a low user but maybe not?

[shivvy]

Goodness - do I have to do that fender?
I'm honestly suprised that the memory is full when I feel as if I dont have much on the phone.

[Fitzer]

You can't install an SD card on an iPhone. Did you do as Chris said to see what was using the space on your phone?

[shivvy]

Thanks Fitzer. I was wondering why I couldn't find instructions on how to install a memory card into an iphone!

I tried finding out last night but couldn't - I think my brain was running a bit slow as it was after 2am!
I have tried again this evening and thanks to the link Chris gave me I can see how much space everything is taking up. I'm going to go through them later this evening and hopefully free up some space.

[Gromit]

The low end iPhones ship with only 8Gb of disk space which is not really enough as the system software (iOS) can quite easily eat up more than half of that.

Do you use iCloud? You can put 5Gb of photos onto the cloud, freeing that amount up on your iDevice. Your pictures are still viewable in low resolution on your device and computer, but take up a fraction of your iPhone space.

[LGP]

Fitzer is right you can't install an sad card on an iPhone but you can buy space on the I cloud for not very much, you pay an annual fee. this enables you to see your photos on several devices, phone, pc, iPad Apple TV and is very useful.

[Gromit]

iCloud is free for the upto 5Gb.

It costs 79p per month for upto 20GB.

[LGP]

I meant to say buy extra space on the iCloud. I have 15 Gb which they bill me for once a year. I was recently Australia for five weeks taking a few hundred pictures and 15Gb was adequate.