Podcasts are taking up a lot of space on my phone. In all reality, I have about 4-5 episodes saved, and those only add up to a couple hundred MB’s. According to storage, Podcasts is taking up almost a gig of storage.
After the 14.5 update, I had a bunch of archived podcasts. I thought that was it, so I deleted it. It took off maybe 100-200 mb.
does anyone Have this issue? Or have an idea on how to fix it?
iPhone 8
Hello -
i know this post is a bit old, but I did follow your instructions. It did not work, though. Podcasts are now taking up over a gig of storage, when I only have several hundred MB’s of downloads. (I calculated the actual space based on the ones listed under storage.)
any other ideas? I’m not completely out of space on my phone, but it’d be nice to clean it up
Hello -
i know this post is a bit old, but I did follow your instructions. It did not work, though. Podcasts are now taking up over a gig of storage, when I only have several hundred MB’s of downloads. (I calculated the actual space based on the ones listed under storage.)
any other ideas? I’m not completely out of space on my phone, but it’d be nice to clean it up
Hello there That_speersfms,
Thank you for reaching out! So far I never had this issue. But I do have tips to free up your space.
One of the bugs in the iOS 14.5 Podcast app caused numerous old episodes of a Show to be downloaded.
Get rid of the bloat by:
1) fully exit the Podcasts app,
2) delete the Show in iPhone Settings>General>iPhone Storage>Podcasts,
3) restart your iPhone,
4) refollow the Show,
5) quickly insure the Show setting are appropriate.
6) see if the newest episodes Appear in the show list.
How do I know which show is downloading the old episodes? Or are you saying all of them are? So I should remove all of my saved episodes, then unfollow said shows and re-follow them?
Probably not
Podcast space
