Currently trying to clear up space on my iPhone storage - I’ve deleted all large attachments but it still shows that it’s taking up 12.75GB. When I click Messages it says it’s photos within my messages that are taking up space. But I’ve deleted it all? Anyone have any advice? I’m at wits end with this storage stuff - and I pay $9.99 for iCloud too!

So I own a 128Gb iPhone 12 mini. Have experienced the same issue with my prev iPhone as well. My storage got full almost three days back. Now I deleted an app taking around 1.5 gb of space and then it got emptied as expected. But after sometime what do I see, the storage is full again with me not doing anything. Next I uninstall another app, storage empties and then it is full again… What the….

Now I delete some pictures and clear my bin too almost 2 gb.. After some time the storage is full again.. Don’t know why and what is happening, does this happen with you guys too ?

And also , how do you deal with the issue once your storage is full…

My iPhone storage is constantly full, and I’m tired of manually deleting stuff. Got a message "Iphone Storage Full" Is there a way to free up space automatically without going through every app and photo? Looking for something simple that actually works! Any recommendations? Thanks a lot guys

Hi guys!

My IPhone 8 says the storage is full even though I keep deleting apps and pictures. This has been going on for 2 weeks.

When I connect it to iTunes, it shows that I have 8GB available. When I try to save the phone on iTunes, it’s says the storage is too full to sync, though.

I keep deleting pictures and nothing changes. I emptied the deleted pictures section. I deleted my browser history.

It says I have around 18Gb of system data and every time I delete something the number just gets bigger instead of the available storage.

I still have ICloud storage available. I’ve turned on/off the phone a few times, doesn’t change anything.

Do you have any idea what i could do ? I can’t even open WhatsApp so it’s been really hard :( thanks !

I’m under iOS 16.3.1 btw.

What methods do you use to clear your storage? I’m running low, should have gotten the 128GB version 🥲

My iPhone Storage at 124.88Gb atm, i want to download a game but i need more space. After went through the iphone storage it recommend to upgrade my iCloud. My question is... does iCloud help increase my device storage? (Sorry for bad English)

Hey I have recently purchased iCloud of 200GB and it’s sync and already used up 150GB! And my iPhone storage gets being filled again and again even though I have iCloud sync on! How can I free up my iPhone storage? Please help!

UPDATE: After searching the internet far and wide for solutions, as well as having further glitches with my phone (such as an unresponsive touchscreen), I was able to get my phone working again. Although iTunes couldn't update my phone in Recovery Mode, my phone did start working properly after I exited Recovery Mode. It was as simple as that. Because I never clicked on the "Restore" option on iTunes, I did not lose any data.

I'm currently in the process of heavily reducing the amount of storage I have and backing everything up in order to ensure that my phone doesn't glitch the way it did again.

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Hello all! I currently have an iPhone 13, and my storage on it is currently full -- it is currently at 127.9 GB (which I have never seen before; I've only ever seen it at 127.8) out of 128 GB. However, I've been trying to clear up space and it seems that I'm unable to do so. I know it's normal to not be able to delete any photos when having full iPhone storage, but I've never experienced a time when I couldn't delete any apps either. I've tried deleting my apps from the homescreen, both by long pressing the app and tapping "Remove App" as well as long pressing the homescreen and tapping that "-" sign. Neither method works. I also tried to delete my apps through Settings and the App Store, but I get kicked out of both before I can do anything meaningful on either. This means I have no proper access to Settings or the App Store at the moment; I can only view both for a quick amount of time before I get kicked out. I can't even tap on some of my Settings categories either.

Before this issue started occurring, I had offloaded most of my apps as a way to free up space. Only two apps of mine (specifically ones that I had downloaded from the App Store) remain. One of them seemingly still works. This app also gives me the option to clear app cache, which I have already tried doing multiple times yet my iPhone storage is still full. The other app I have is not letting me do anything on it, meaning that it's not working for me. I also noticed that neither of these apps appear when I go to the main screen of my Settings and scroll all the way down to view my list of apps. As for some of Apple's apps, I have no access to Notes or Safari. I get kicked out of Notes every time I try to go on the app, and when it comes to Safari, the search function does not go through. My bookmarks on Safari also seem to have deleted by themselves because of full storage.

I have also tried seeing if I could transfer my photos and videos to my USB flash drives, but I can't do that either. I have a USB adapter, and when I connect it to my iPhone, my iPhone is not detecting it in the Files app. I have also tried connecting my iPhone to my HP laptop using my USB-C to Lightning cable. While I can still charge my phone this way, my laptop is unable to access any of my iPhone photos, even when I tap on "Trust" when the "Trust This Computer?" prompt on my phone pops up. The iTunes Store on my laptop is also saying that an unknown error is occurring, every time it asks if it can access the contents of my phone.

Honestly, I'm at a loss. I have no idea what to do. I've had full storage multiple times in the past, and there were two times a few years ago where I restarted my old iPhone (it was an XR at 64 GB) only for my phone to be stuck on the Apple logo. This caused me to have to get the phone factory reset at Best Buy. I am not willing to have that happen again with my iPhone 13, especially since there are several photos and memories that I have not yet backed up to my USB drives.

Does anyone know what else I can do?

iPhone 13 running IOS 16.2

I make sure to monitor photos and videos so it’s not that, nor apps nor music, yet the bloody thing keeps reporting low storage.

I cleared 8 gig of free space last week, took about 3 gig of photos and videos hiking and now I only have 300mb of available space? And yeah I’ve emptied the deleted folder.

I might have to pay for 2TB of iCloud space at this rate… or upgrade to a phone with a lot more storage.

I've searched the thread but haven't found anything

Has your phone run out of space, and you did your due diligence to clear it out? Was that space then turned into “system data?” How do you get rid of system data?

Well, from what I read on different blogs and Apple support articles, all you can really do is offload unused apps, get rid of messages, clear out caches in different apps, etc. but that’s not really getting rid of system data…and I’ve noticed my phone seemingly getting sluggish over the last few weeks after offloading a ton of movies from traveling recently. It basically turned that data into system data. So here’s the trick…

If you have an iPhone capable of shooting ProRes video, go into your camera, go into video mode, and enable ProRes. You’ll notice a ticker at the top that tells you the maximum amount of time you can shoot in this mode. It will more than likely be 0 minutes, but you will see right below that a spinning ticker saying “optimizing resources.” This is getting rid of that system data that’s unneeded. I just left my phone in this mode for a few minutes and it freed up five minutes worth of video, but then gave me the option to continue free resources. It essentially got rid of the rest of the system data that wasn’t needed and left me with the free space above!

Hope this helps!

even if i delete every photo and every single app on my phone, they add up to practically less than 2.5GB

everything else is eaten up by "other" storage.

how do i clear "other" storage?

Hi all, attached supporting photos. My phone keeps saying it is running out of storage (and clearly it is), but my photos are taking up 10GB’s when I have them backing up to the iCloud.

So here’s my issue- correct me if I’m wrong, but even with the photos backed up onto the iCloud, if I delete photos from my phone, I get a prompt saying that photo will be “deleted across all devices including iCloud”. So, how in the heck am I supposed to free up space on the phone?

Also, before it is recommended- since the photos are backed up to iCloud, I cannot transfer them to my computer/external hard drive. I tried but the folders were just empty. :/

Any help is appreciated because other than this my phone still works just fine.

I have an iPhone 11 and an iPad and they're constantly reporting storage full, no matter how many photos & apps I delete or offload. This is a constant problem.

I'll go through with a cleaner program and I'll delete about 4GB of photos and videos, and even the storage indicator will show that I have tons of room left. Then, an hour later, I’ll still get “storage full” messages.

This happens on both my iPhone and iPad.

I have iCloud storage and also pay extra for added storage; it's nowhere near full on my iCloud account.

Is this a bug? Known issue?