TheOnlyTazman

Q: Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4

Yes may be a stupid question BUT i can't find this anywhere online. So I need a bit of help on this.

 

I get a pop-up on the screen every so often ...

 

Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4 only AFTER updating to iOS5. After update iOS5 seems to have stolen nearly a BIG chunk of my iPhone's memory/storage for itself, so had to remove a number of apps to give myself at least 700mb free. Message pop-up still appears. I then removed yet more apps - note that with the old iOS4's I never had this issue & all the apps I was removing now worked perfectly fine on the phone!

 

Then had over 2gb free & yet I was STILL getting the message. My iCloud is 100% free (ie 5gb available). Storage in settings/useage shows up as 2gb+ free.

 

So what's going on???

 

The pop-up states: "Storage Almost Full you can manage your storage in Settings."

Dell PC, Windows 7, 64 Bit

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 3:02 AM

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  • by Analia10,Helpful

    Analia10 Analia10 Mar 24, 2012 7:57 PM in response to Ramblingman
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    Mar 24, 2012 7:57 PM in response to Ramblingman

    Just tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly. I had a massive portion of my iphone taken up by OTHER when in fact I have very few apps, no photosor videos etc. Not sure what the OTHER was but what you suggested cleared most of it out. Thanks!

  • by kittykilljoy,

    kittykilljoy kittykilljoy Apr 6, 2012 6:11 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman
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    Apr 6, 2012 6:11 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

    the same thing is happining to me but on my 3rd generation ipod

  • by dndrich,

    dndrich dndrich Apr 6, 2012 11:37 PM in response to Analia10
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    Apr 6, 2012 11:37 PM in response to Analia10

    I have had a similar problem with my iPhone 4. My 32 gig iPhone shows five gigs of remaining space. Yet I am getting this same message. I forced an iCloud backup, and it freed up an additional eight gigs of space! So there appears to be a bug of some kind in iOS 5.1 and iCloud. There must be some log files, or other kind of hidden files that accumulate between backups. Apple needs to address this. I suspect this will become obvious to them at some point. Now my phone is working correctly again.

  • by Jansenht,

    Jansenht Jansenht Apr 7, 2012 12:29 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman
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    Apr 7, 2012 12:29 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

    I also got this messsge with 5GB free space.  I simply turned off the iCloud backup and then reset my network settings (only Network!). Once the iPhone restarted I turned iCloud backup on again and recovered 7GB space. So far no more error messages.

  • by dndrich,

    dndrich dndrich Apr 7, 2012 1:09 PM in response to Jansenht
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    Apr 7, 2012 1:09 PM in response to Jansenht

    Yup. This appears to be a bug.

  • by judygray08,

    judygray08 judygray08 Apr 24, 2012 9:13 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman
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    Apr 24, 2012 9:13 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

    I have experienced the same problem since yesterday. It was just out of the blue the pop ups started. I googled the problem and no solution. Finally I decided to plug my iphone into the computer and without opeing my itunes i opened my picture folder selected all photos and videos then transfered them all on my desktop. Problem solved! I went from like having only 1.4 GBs available to 4.8 GBs available. It is amazing how many GBs pics and videos use. Hopefully this will solve your problem as well.

  • by Knoll42,

    Knoll42 Knoll42 Apr 28, 2012 7:00 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman
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    Apr 28, 2012 7:00 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

    I think its a bug.

     

    Since ios5 my I pad 1 has been crashing a lot. Diagnostics say low memory mostly.

    Itunes reported 'other' as using 8gb out of 13.8. Any cloud or sync or update  can randomly drag memory to zero then.up pops the low memory warning.

     

    Prior to this I had wifi sync for some reason that made the crashing much much worse.

     

    I had not one crash before icloud and.itunes match.

     

    This one is turning out to as definitely not your finest hour Apple!! Please fix it

  • by Botch Casually,

    Botch Casually Botch Casually Apr 30, 2012 7:32 AM in response to Ramblingman
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    Apr 30, 2012 7:32 AM in response to Ramblingman

    Turning iCloud backup off worked for me... I was down to less than 1GB of storage, by syncing to my laptop, I was able to reduce my "other" usage from 8.8GB to .076GB.

  • by msproles,

    msproles msproles May 2, 2012 9:43 AM in response to Azgard
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    May 2, 2012 9:43 AM in response to Azgard

    I started getting these messages out of the blue, tried deleting music, photos, apps, etc and nothing worked, in fact it seemed to get worse in that the space available actually went down in some cases.

     

    Tried Azgard's solution and it worked perfectly, after the backup went back to 9GB free from 1GB free before the backup.

  • by sillysal,

    sillysal sillysal May 3, 2012 10:14 AM in response to Azgard
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    May 3, 2012 10:14 AM in response to Azgard

    Where is the force back up at in ICloud, cannot find it.

  • by plochner,

    plochner plochner May 17, 2012 1:46 PM in response to sillysal
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    May 17, 2012 1:46 PM in response to sillysal

    I just want to disable the warning box that appears on my phone. I know I'm using 4.9GB of storage out of my 5.0GB allotted. I know, I know, I know. Stop yelling at me about it. Disable the warning. HOW DO I DO THIS?

  • by BigKen1,

    BigKen1 BigKen1 May 28, 2012 8:16 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman
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    May 28, 2012 8:16 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

    On any/all of your devices,  go to iCloud in settings and Delete and Turn Off iCloud backup.  Back up your device and then restore.  This will solve your problem and your storage space will be back.  If there were apps that couldn't load because of the storage issue, then you will need to go back into iTunes and put them back on your device.

  • by reedpam4449,

    reedpam4449 reedpam4449 Jun 10, 2012 9:15 PM in response to BigKen1
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    Jun 10, 2012 9:15 PM in response to BigKen1

    I didn't have to do complete restore, I experimented by turning off Photo Stream, that reduced Other category (not Photo category) from 9GB storage down to 1GB. Kept regular Photo archive on phone. So far, seems to be all that was necessary.

  • by Michael Moore8,

    Michael Moore8 Michael Moore8 Jun 12, 2012 6:30 AM in response to Ramblingman
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    Jun 12, 2012 6:30 AM in response to Ramblingman

    Thanks for the fix!  I performed the steps as described and my free space jumped from 1.3G available to 7.3...  space warning messages have stopped.

  • by David Cameron3,

    David Cameron3 David Cameron3 Jul 13, 2012 6:00 PM in response to Mark Weegen
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    Jul 13, 2012 6:00 PM in response to Mark Weegen

    This worked for me, thanks!  I was really worried I was going to have to do a factory reset!

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