Deleted all of the Health App data, however is still showing as using 20.44GB

Apple’s recommendation worked for me. I had 1.6TB health data, no longer recording route data from my Apple Watch walks and cycles. My first attempt was to unpair and then repair my watch was not successful. My second attempt was successful. 1. Unpair Apple Watch (2nd gen) 2. iCloud backup (I have 2 TB option but backup no where big as 1.6TB or it would have failed), 3. Reset my iPhone X (side effects - had to add credit cards back to wallet after restore), 4. Restored iPhone X from iCloud backup ( storage report was back to expected value - all good) 5. Repaired Apple Watch. 6. Went for a workout walk and noted that activity app on iPhone X recorded the entire walk route. Big success! I needed an evening to get this done.

apple link

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865

I saw someone else had mentioned this, but this has been the only thing that has worked for me- in Settings, go to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Allowed Apps > Turn off Health

This completely takes the Health app off of your Home Screen and it doesn’t show up in storage. I no longer get the full storage warning so it definitely helped. I also turned off Wallet as I don’t use that either since those are two specific apps you can’t delete, so it’s a nice method of at least eliminating them to the best of your ability. Hope this helps!

So I backed up my device, did a factory restore and loaded my back up.... seems to fix the issue. Hope this helps.

Yes

14.2 fixes the problem

without any note from Apple

but it is fixing it

Factory reset and restore from iCloud fixed it for us. Couldn’t delete or install apps, serious battery drain, and Apple Watch on the fritz. It had to be factory reset too.

70.42PB

Talk about a bug 😐

The large number is fictitious. Plug in you iPhone, connect to wifi and let your phone do an iCloud backup. Make sure it’s tuned on. You will need enough iCloud space, depends on a number of things. Reply if you need assistance.

You have a several of choices.

1. Maybe 14.1 will fix the problem;

2. trying an encrypted backup using iTunes to your computer (password required - this option required to backup confidential data on iPhone) and then a reset and restore (see my previous post for link to procedure);

3. buy 200gb )or whatever you think you will need) iCloud space, doing an iCloud backup etc. You can downgrade your iCloud storage plan after you’ve finished with the restore. Remember iCloud backup does not include photos already on the icloud, app programs ( app data is backed up).

i may have been fortunate since I already had enough iCloud space to do the backup.

goodluck

14.2 fixed the problem for me, thankfully. Health's 62+PB in first place, now down to 5th place at 473MB. Now, I just need to free up the 50+GB on my MacBook to be able to back it up again.

I currently have 32PB of storage for the health app, which is outrageous compared to the capacity of my phone is 64gb. A PB is 1,000 terabytes, so I was little confused. I found that backing up your phone, wiping the data, and then loading from the most recent backup is the best option. After I post this, I'm going to try it.

Try apple’s procedure for missing and seemingly broken stuff.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865

I think I'm going to need to do a factory reset and setup from scratch

@Jim Porell - It's obviously a bug and until they come out with a fix I had no choice but to reset both my iWatch and iPhone. Try this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865.

Did you try to do an iCloud backup? I’d be interested if you were refused and what the error message was.

Cupneverempty wrote:

Here’s hoping that iPhones get updated to 14.2!

Why don’t you update to 14.2 and find out?