iPhone storage keeps going back to full after deleting many things daily

I read the thread, did what it said, and no. It is not fixed. Please let me know if you have any new insight on the issue and how to fix it.

one option is to move like 6 GB to pics or videos to your computer, then delete them and quickly download and install the update!

THANK YOU! I went to photos and turned off the setting that said iCloud photos. And I watched my other storage go from like 40gigs down to 6!

Please read the rest of the thread you posted to, not just the first post. If you have any questions after reading 5 pages of answers (many redundant) come back and someone will try to help.

I had a problem my dotage kept increasing Everytime I deleted something but I just deleted my stuff out my recent deleted my storage dropped down.So try that

I have updated to 14.0.1 and the problem remains. This problem seems to be ongoing for the last 3 years according to other threads, long before IOS 13. I’m no expert but this problem has gone on long enough. It should be fixed, or explained properly.

Exactly the same problem. Over the last week I have deleted 15 GB of pics but the storage never stays below the full mark. Extremely annoying!!

Someone from Apple, please help! Or are you doing it deliberately to make us buy the new iphone? If that’s so, I will buy a new phone but never an apple again!

I have same problem. I deleted almost 50% of photos (25GB), app data, still 30GB data is used by other system data & 5gb is software data. I can't even see system data details? Are they collecting our data? Please help I have to constantly delete items to continue using my phone. This is extremely frustrating. I have attached images below.

I deleted almost all the apps instead of getting free space, System data storage is increasing automatically as I delete files and apps. This is some kind of virus! I'm so frustrated I will break my phone :-( . They want 3.6 GB for update, this is too much! The other option is I have to reset my phone. :-(

Hey guys, thank you for your replies. Appreciate your time and help. I did update my software and it did not work for me. Also I deleted and reinstalled applications, restarted my phone several times. I got the same issue. In fact other data storage keep increasing with activity.

It's frustrating, I wasted a lot of time after this and it did not work. I don't have history or browser data. I have minimum apps. I'm facing this issue from last 30-40 days. iPhone developers please come up with a simple solution. _/\_

I need to be able to access it all, I just don't need it all on the phone at the same time, hence my simple suggestion above. This is how it used to be up to some time ago, I had no issues whatsoever, then after some update, it changed and started filling up my phone. My guess is that Apple stopped supporting iCloud drive for lower capacity phones.

You cannot save something to iCloud and remove it from your phone, agreed, never did that, don't want that. I just want iCloud drive to stop filling up my phone. It didn't use to do that, now it does.

Dear Mr. Finch, no I did not, if anything I removed stuff from the Mac. I used to have more data on the Mac before, way more than my iPhone capacity but it never filled the storage. There is one thing which when I change solves or makes the problem return, I have tried it countless times. It is the toggle to start using iCloud drive on the iPhone, when I switch it on, it fills my storage within two days, when I switch it off, my phone has loads of storage to use. I appreciate your trying to help, but you don't seem to have the solution to my problem. You don't need to solve everyone's problems, don't worry. Thanks for your time.

I have the same issue.. it has been going on for a couple of months now.. i would get notified that my storage is full but i am sure i should have up to 2gb to spare.. the only recent addition to the list of installed apps is a mere estimated 200mb.. so i would hit the files and delete some photos and videos and apps from time to time but just a few moments later i get the full storage notification again and now it appears to be more full than ever.. first time i had the prompt, it said i have only less than 50 mb to spare.. so i cleared and deleted so apps and did gain a few more space, but a few minutes i was notifie that i have literally zero mb to spare.... like what was that supposed to mean? What did i do to fill up those cleared up memory again? Nothing.. does someone have an explanation?