apple Maps is taking up 37 GB of storage on my phone how do I get rid of that. I already deleted the app and reinstalled it and nothing changed
iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 14
Phone is iPhone X 64 GB on Verizon. iOS is 14.0.1.
While traveling in a situation with no access to WiFi for 10-11 days and using Apple Maps (CarPlay) for all navigation I noticed my phone was slowing and running warmer than normal. Charging also appeared to be happening slower than usual.
I tried to open the camera app to take a pic and got the message that iPhone storage was full and I could not take any more pics. I reviewed the storage being used by apps and Maps was using a whopping 32 GB and I could find no way to reduce that storage.
I reduced my total usage by deleting some pics. I also removed some apps that I was not regularly using. This resulted in my being able to take a few pics.
by the next day I received the iPhone storage full message again. I again checked storage used by apps and my Maps storage usage had grown to 37 GB. I tried removing Maps and rebooting my phone and even though Maps was no longer on my phone my storage was still using 37 GB for maps. I reinstalled maps and the condition remained.
That night I stayed in a place with decent WiFi and made sure that my phone completed a manual backup. In the morning I checked to insure that backup had completed, which it had. I checked storage and my Maps storage usage had reduced to less than 1 GB and my phone was showing 35 GB available.
Unfortunately, the warmer than usual, slow running, and slow charging condition remained. When I arrived home I forced another backup and reset my phone, using the backup just created. Things seem better so far, but this reset is only a couple of hours old, so I’m still reserving judgement.
Yes it was, I deleted the thing, I use google maps now and it does not grow
Offloading or deleting does not remove the data. Only moves the data to “other”. Upon Reinstalling Maps, it comes right back.
I am reporting the same issue. It is connected to CarPlay somehow. Uninstalled Apple Maps and I will be using Google maps until it gets resolved.
TieHand,
thanks for sharing your experience, and glad you have worked it out.
But I'm interested in your notification. Can I ask you a few questions to better understand the problem and possibly help others who may suffer from it?
Thank you
Giulio
Thank you, TieHand.
As the behavior is quite unusual and, to be frank, I don't have an appropriate explanation to offer you, I will try to investigate further. If I find any useful information I will keep you informed (and I kindly ask you to do the same with me).
Take care
Giulio
P.S. The same thing goes for roshaun98, who joined this thread.
Strange happening. I've used Maps twice in the last 4 days, on Thursday and again on Friday. I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro with iOS 14.0.1. Checking on my storage, Maps is using 25.4MB in App Size and 10.2MB in Documents and Data for a total storage at 35.6MB. Reading the other posts here, I can say that my device has been doing regular iCloud backups over the last 4 days as well, so I cannot say that has any correlation.
Since my last post on OCT 17 I am now at 35 GB of storage from 33 GB. Today is OCT 19. I have used Apple Maps just once. At this rate I will be out of storage by Thanksgiving. SMH. Kind of would like to figure this out without having to do a reset.
I have CarPlay but not on my main vehicle. So I use car play maybe once or twice on The Weekends with my 2020 Telluride. During the week I use Apple Maps heavily as my job requires me to travel all over San Diego County. I only put this information in just in case someone has other experiences that might pertain to vehicle or location. You never know. I’ll have to update my phone on the weekend because it’s my lifeline during the week and I can’t have any downtime. I’ll keep you posted. Oh and as of right now I’m at 37.15 GB.
I have this same problem. My phone is a XR and I’ve used CarPlay extensively for the last 3 weeks. Today the directions froze. Later I found out that the memory is almost full. Guessing that the nearly full memory caused the problem. Also guessing that the feature that allows a route to be followed even when a cell signal is lost may be misbehaving.
Same happening here. Seems to have started after updating to iOS 14. I’ve now deleted maps but the space just goes to “other”. Very frustrating. I haven’t seen anyone come up with any solution as of yet.
I’m having the same issue. Maps is currently using 47.36 GB of my phone storage. My phone has seemed sluggish since the iOS 14 update, so I was looking into settings and noticed my iPhone Storage was unusually high.
Same here! and it continues to get bigger. Has anyone figured this out?
Thanks for sharing, ChrisJ.
Giulio
Njp,
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Giulio
Maps isn’t growing again after the reset?
Apple Maps storage
