iPhone XS Max full memory Error 14

Hey y'all I'm having the same issue with my iPhone. After reading a lot of comments on here I don't have much hope that my phone will ever come back to life with my content saved. I don't find this fair from Apple. We pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for these devices, for this?? Our phones are part of our everyday life. I literally carry my phone with me every day and take pics of almost every moment spent with friends and family. I'm sure others do too. So for Apple to do this to us especially in these terrible moments we are all going through is not fair. Some of us even have unrecoverable memories with loved ones who we may have lost due to COVID-19. We need to DEMAND attention to this matter. Apple specialists cannot simply brush us off with "you should always back up your iPhone." Oh, to what? The useless 5GB of free storage we get on our 64-512 GB phones? Sure we can pay for more storage, but when you're a college student, it all adds up and sometimes it's not easy to afford more storage, especially when one is already paying for Apple Music or similar music subscription, aside from books, bills, and rent. Come on Apple, please release an update to fix this problem a lot of us are having. A huge part of your brand is made up of us all who use your top-of-the-line products and WE NEED YOU TO FIX THIS.

i have the exact same problem. Marriage photos, videos all locked up in a bricked phone. Have kept it in the drawer for the last 2 months. In the hopes that Apple would someday come out with an update to fix this.

But My hopes are drying up. Now that Apple is the worlds largest company, our concerns are nothing to them. but they forget that they became big because of us !!! The consumers! Have been using Apple products since 2010. But now I am fed up!!!

Me too! I’ve got the same problem with my XS! I have never thought that it would happen to my phone!!! It should have a lower storage recover programme for update the iPhone! If it’s larger.... how could it run... I don’t figure out What this update for....

Apple should make a new IOS recover update with a much less memory loaded into the iPhone for it to start. They even can issue some "Recovery IOS" for the device to start, freeing memory and recovery.

Then we can buy the next iPhone happily.... but now I cannot see this....

I am a loyal client for 16years already... since I was 16years old. From the Power Macintosh G3 when I was in school....

Oh wow! Just when I thought to myself that it cannot be the case that an iPhone gets full and it will get into reboot loop on Apple logo. Now it's stuck in recovery mode. How did iOS end up not saving any system memory enough to always let the iPhone by usable and able to update. I am writing this as I am planning to head to Apple store in hopes of them being able to run the update after I tried at least 10 times. A phone that doesn't work due to full memory with the only option being a factory restore feels like we aren't in 2020 just yet.

Joining the club here!!

My phone is stuck at apple logo after showing low memory for few days now. I have not backed up on icloud since few months as it was full and i did not want to pay for the storage.

Shall i try to update and get stuck at error 14 or just leave it here? Which is a worse state to be in?

Worst case, if i decide to restore to factory defaults, can i get my iphone XS back up and running?

Please help. very tired rying all sorts of stuff before landing on this page. Thanks in advance!

Anyone had any luck fixing the issue? Should we approach Apple in any other way since there has been no solution and it will only do harm to more people? My phone is still in warranty, so they offered a replacing phone, but my 10 month of memory with friends and family will be gone... hopefully this is not by design to get more people to sign up paid iCloud. If so, it is really shady

That's just the reality of facts.

I've never seen in my life a huge company like apple making a huge mistake as this one, not warning any consumer (that pay price of gold to have their devices) and then not even providing a fix for it.

Personal memories are incredibly important to a human being and nowdays that's all in our phones it's just IMPOSSIBLE that something like this can happen and no one has a solution.

Just ridiculous

You are responding to my comment that surely every one knows that you should back up your phone or import your photos to a computer on a regular basis to avoid losing precious photos.

And that is Apples fault somehow??

Android, that is considered MUCH less reliable that iOS, does not crash itself when the storage is full and when you try to turning it on again every single data that is in it is just LOST.

A serious operating system simply shouldn't have this issue! (i think if some one tries to argue on this is completly crazy) BUT if you have, AT LEAST PROVIDE A FIX, if you don't, you don't care at all about one of the of the most important things of your customers, their memories. (and it's clear now that it doesn't)

Just didn't expect this from Apple.

You can still lose an Android or drop it down the toilet.

Backup every week is all.

Preferably use the import to Mac photos and sync back then you get twice as many photos in the phone.

The fellow users on here are very aware of a problem with "Other" not clearing and jamming up phones do they cannot be cleared. That was fixed in iOS13.6.1

Irrespective of those "tons of people" you seem to be representing, at this stage in this old thread you would do better to start a new discussion wirh some details of your own problem. Nobody is going to search the thread to see if you did or did not describe your symptoms earlier.

Nobody here is interested in your mailing list

I have the same problem. Newborn photos from first day, videos all locked up in a bricked phone. I hope so much there will be a solution for it. Its really disappointed to lose so precious memories just because of an update couldn't be done ?!

Backup is not a solution for this problem here for us.

I think you can stop suggesting it.

Backup is important, people get it. Especially people came here.

But if these people had backups, they wouldn't be here.

BTW, for bricked or damage phone or digital cameras, it is still possible to get data out of them.

It's called digital forensics I think.

"...digital forensics I think..."

There you go then, problem solved.

You can assign blame if you wish to iOS for the unrecoverable state of the phone. You can't blame any third party for loss of data when no backup has been made for weeks or months.

Well for the record my phone is backed up. The phone warned me my memory was full and I tried to go into it and erase things but it wouldn't work. Then it shut off and I cannot get it to restart past recovery mode. I cannot fix it via my computers, via iMyFone nothing. What good is backing up if you can't even factory restore the thing?