iPhone says not enough storage but there is

I have iCloud enabled to upload my photos but it is stuck uploading and the message "Not enough iPhone storage" is shown. I however still have 2.3GB storage available on my device.

What can I do to resolve this?



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iPhone 6s Plus

Posted on Oct 16, 2019 4:59 AM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2020 3:33 PM

Hi... I was facing the same issue with my girlfriend’s phone. We upgraded her iCloud to 50GB plan, cleared 1GB on her phone, but kept getting the same error.


I tried a few different things, like disabling iCloud and reenabling, restarting phone to clear cache, etc, but nothing worked.


The last of my attempts, which finally made it start working, was by deleting and disabling the backup data/job. After doing that, the Photos started syncing.


Will reenable backup (which hadn’t run since 2018) after photos are all uploaded.

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Feb 24, 2020 8:40 AM in response to laurens131

Same issue here.


2TB icloud plan

256 GB iphone 11 Pro max with over 128GB space free on the phone.


I contstantly get not enough space warning for uploading photos. Besides that nearly all my photos and videos, even ones shot just 24 hours before, require pulling down from iCloud. It's like the phone doesn't recognize it has 128 GB of space to use as cache for photos.


Super annoying. Please fix.

Jun 28, 2020 2:59 PM in response to laurens131

I am having the same issue. What I have noticed is my “other storage” is going up. I’m losing gigs cause of it. I keep getting an alert saying not enough storage so I paid for more storage in iCloud. But my photos won’t upload. Also, since this has been happening my apps have been force closing. This has been the biggest annoyance I’ve have had with iPhone.

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