There are two states of the Recycle Bin – one is Recycle Bin with deleted items and the other one is empty Recycle Bin ... a Windows Insider MVP (2016-2022). Please read the entire post ...

Tap "Empty trash now" at the top of the screen to delete all the items in the bin. Select OK in the pop-up dialogue box to ...

Instead, some of the built-in apps that manage files, such as Messages, Emails, Photos, etc, have their own recycle bin.