Thank you for that info. And I assure you I keep all my photos and videos deleted off my phone as soon as I edit them and upload them to a cloud or to my external hard drive, they are off my phone. I'm constantly cleaning out my phone storage and it is as bare bones as possible and I strongly suspect my phone is doing that "planned obsolescence" thing lately because I took one video yesterday and it wouldn't let me edit it, it gave me an error message that said I need to free up 7 GB of memory on my phone and I'm like "SEVEN GIGS?! THAT'S RIDICULOUS!"
This is the current state of my phone memory and storage availability:
