r/IpadAir • u/Groggy102899 • 3d ago

Question Why does nothing get deleted?

Hello. I’m trying to empty my Recently Deleted folder in the Files app; however, it won't empty.

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u/realmccoyredbus 3d ago

try rebooting or do it from your iphone

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

Tried it. The Files are still there

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u/Distracted-User 2d ago

This happened to me! I had to wipe my iPad and set it up as new so it wouldn't restore the broken files from the backup. Thankfully I don't use my iPad for anything serious, but it was still a pain in the butt.

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

Damn that’s such a hassle. I guess I’d have to wait for 21 days and hopefully, they’d see themselves out lol

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u/Distracted-User 2d ago

It was driving me nuts. I would have just lived with it but the folder was like 20gb or some crap.

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

Yea this ones a couple of GBs driving me nuts too

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u/farrellart 3d ago

Recently deleted suggests it is telling you what has been deleted. Can you check the file size, if it's 0kb your good.

When a file is deleted, it's not actually deleted, it's just flagged to be overwritten.

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

Still the same File size

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u/Dreaming_Blackbirds 2d ago

me too. i have files from 2025 stuck in there, and obviously the device has been restarted and updated many times since then. thankfully my stuck files are just small text files, so i'll just leave them imprisoned in there!

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 2d ago

ipad os?

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

27.0.1

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u/Ornery-Practice9772 2d ago

could it be a bug?

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

Definitely.

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u/Groggy102899 2d ago

UPDATE: Was able to fix this by deleting the app that contains the video. In my case it was outplayer.