Apple Maps storage

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?

1. Which iPhone model do you use and with which version of IOS?
2. If I understand correctly, did you just make a full backup to iCloud (without data restore) and your storage space decreased by 37GB? This leaves me very incredulous, because I don't think this operation will change the amount of data on your iPhone. I am not questioning your words, but I am wondering how this could have happened.
3. Have you noticed this decrease only on Apple Maps, or also for the space related to other apps?
4. Are you sure you have not done any other operation (such as a forced reboot) or changed any settings on your phone before and after the backup?

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?

The shutdown/restart/reload maps did temporarily remove the used memory from the iPhone but alas, it's back. Back to square one.