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Daughters phone is saying 123.8mb is left of 5gb, she's tried deleting some photos 500 of 3000 but is still not letting her use some apps, she's driving me crazy is there anything else we can do ?
I've not got an iphone but I think you have to delete/empty them out of the 'bin' after deleting them.
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If that link doesn't work it should be the first result in the App Store if you search "battery doctor". It has a junk clean up option. Works well on my iPad.
5GB is her iCloud limit, not the phone. She's saving photos to the iCloud not the phone. Change that in Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage.
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I don't think this has anything to do with the OP's issue.
If it is onboard storage you are talking about then go to Settings->General->Storage and iCloud->Manage Storage
It will give you a breakdown of what storage each app is using and you can delete any useless ones.
(In my experience it can get a bit crashy if there is less than 1GB free and gets progressively worse as you run out)
If it is just iCloud usage then the same bit will let you examine that but it is probably all photos and videos.
Go to itunes on the phone, type in lord of the rings, and hit rent. It wont charge you but it will clear a load of cache files to try and make it fit. Repeat until you see no improvements in settings, about, free space.
Has she just downloaded the iOS update but not installed it? Could be clogging it up?