ios 13.5.1 storage issues

Tried both, and still have the same issue. My available space on my iPhone fluctuates from 19mb to 300mb. Don't know if that hasn't anything to do with it. Makes no sense to me why both my MBP and iCloud tell me there's not enough space.

It’ll probably go just fine, but it’s just a temporary fix regardless.

The perceived need for offloading of stuff may also be Apple’s plan, for us to buy more storage and/or phones.

The problem needs to be fixed instead of us working around it only to be defeated by the “Other” storage again and again.

Question is, What is “Other” that all the sudden eats lots of space?

I wiped my iPhone 6S clean by resetting it and by doing that I got a lot of memory back. Thereafter I reinstalled my apps back. However, 2 weeks later and my phone has the same problem because it has the same updated IOS 13.5.1 version on it. Can’t use any apps anymore. Useless piece of metal. Sucks big time. Great job making me want to switch to Samsung Galaxy. Great job Apple.

Same here- I have a 64gb phone and I deleted every single photo (no shared albums or recently deleted either), all my attachments to messages, removed and re-added my mailbox, cleared my browser history, deleted a ton of apps, and all my podcasts. Every time I create extra space “other” claims it in a matter of hours. Where I had 100s of photos the other day on my phone now I can barely have 5. I need to roll forward or back- this stinks!

radoslavgn wrote:

Same issue. "Other" category keeps growing no matter how much I delete and fills all available storage. Iphone X. Current Other size - 10GB

Then it would be enlightening for you to read the Apple Recommended post that is at the top of this page, and that was also right under the post that you replied to.

The ‘storage corruption’ answer doesn’t give anyone confidence that the problem won’t return or what the cause of the corruption could have been. The inability to have visibility into the other category is a concern to me. I think Apple’s inability to address the root cause for the many of us that have been afflicted by this is concerning. I have had an iPhone for years but I don’t HAVE to have an iPhone.

I have the same problem. My "other" storage just keeps growing no matter how quickly I delete apps, photos, local music. Up to 26GB now! It must be a problem with iOS 13.5.1. I'm replying in the hopes that perhaps Apple will notice and address the problem.

You are correct, there is no guarantee it doesn’t come back. But you should get whatever product best meets your needs. I’m sure that Android phones, for example, are absolutely perfect and never have any problems of any kind.

None of the users in this user-to-user forum care how you spend your money.

I’m simply advising readers new to this forum that Apple has been unable to offer any assistance with this problem. Or from my experience even acknowledging that they have a problem. You in a snarky manner directing them to a solution that they likely already seen but aren’t willing/able to take isn’t really useful guidance. Wouldn’t you say?

Apple certainly structures their other memory in a fashion that makes it impenetrable for diagnosing this problem. So I look at my replies as a PSA, not me telling anyone where I’m spending my money.

Apple loyalists are an interesting breed.

?? I actually spent quite an amount of time on the phone with a very nice Apple technical

service representative. Advising/reporting the problem and advising them of the issue being repeatedly posted on this forum. He responded by sending me an explanation of what ‘other’ memory entailed? He was however unable to find any reports or solutions for this problem. I’m assuming he logged the problem I’m also assuming nothing has been done.

after I downloaded ios 13.5.1 onto my iphone 7 plus it has been not working properly with the storage I almost deleted everything on my iPhone and it still said i have use must of my storage please help nothing was wrong with my iPhone before this is not acceptable apple please fix this update are to help the apple community not give more problems please fix asap

Very glad that you were able to free up your device's storage.

In case you feel inclined, never hurts to send feedback directly to Apple to make sure this issue is on their radar

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Memory storage usage under 'other' has gone by 21.4 GB in my iPhone 7 plus, after I installed iOS 13.5.1.

Memory storage usage under 'other' has gone by 40 GB in my iPhone 7 plus, after I offload some Apps.

wonderful iphone!!!

Hi! I’m having the same problem, my concern is that I will loose the text messages from my recently departed momma if I factory reset. She did not have an iPhone so they aren’t iMessages. Is there a way to add these to my backups because thus far they have no been in any backup only iMessages are included. Any help would be greatly appreciated sir!

There isn’t really a way to pick and choose what’s included in a backup. If you backup using iCloud or iTunes, text messages are included in the backup (iMessage, SMS, MMS). You can read more about what is included in an iCloud backup here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207428, and more about each type of backup here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204136

If you want to be extra sure, you can always take screenshots of the texts and either email them to yourself or transfer the screenshots to your computer.

I’m sorry to hear about your mom!