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High media usage on iPad

I am running out of free space on a 64GB iPad. Settings shows that media consumes about 60% of the disk (~38GB) while it also shows that Photos occupies 5GB and the largest app is Spotify with 2GB usage. I don’t use any other app with offline media content. I does not sum to 38GB in any way!


How to find what actually eats the storage space and clear it?


iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, Cellular

Posted on Aug 14, 2019 8:12 AM

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Posted on Aug 23, 2019 11:48 AM

I have found the solution myself. It was enough to delete TV app (I had no content in it).


Conclusions:

  1. Disk usage reported by iOS is missing details that clearly show what actually occupies disk space.
  2. There is a bug in TV app - it somehow eats disk space.
  3. Apple support was not able to help me.

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Aug 23, 2019 11:48 AM in response to lvdvik

I have found the solution myself. It was enough to delete TV app (I had no content in it).


Conclusions:

  1. Disk usage reported by iOS is missing details that clearly show what actually occupies disk space.
  2. There is a bug in TV app - it somehow eats disk space.
  3. Apple support was not able to help me.

High media usage on iPad

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