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Noticed recently that my Reminders app on my iPhone is consuming 7.4GB of memory and I only have few lists there and one daily reminder. I'm syncing the same on my iPad and there the same reminders take only few kbs. I've tried to clear all data and re-install the app but the same memory consumption remains. Any hints how to resolve?
iPhone XS, iOS 15
This is BS. I also switched my phone and gigabytes of crap followed after switchover. Obviously Apple is in no hurry to fix this since this is forcing people to upgrade their phones and iCloud plans. Can anyone push this to media outlets to get exposure?
I almost finally solved this! my phone and iPad both had over 14 GB being used. The problem was traced to the Reminders in my library on my mac. I had once attached a picture with a reminder of my eyedrops. Somehow it kept replicating itself until there were hundreds (700 +) copies of the attachment at about 16 mb each. Deleted them disconnected from icloud. Deleted reminders app from Phone and ipad. Shut down all devices. Waited 10 minutes and fixed! From this webpage https://appletoolbox.com/fix-apple-watch-says-storage-is-full-but-its-not/
On your Mac, open the Reminders App database. It should be located under Mac\UserName\Library folder\Reminders.
It seems that these attachments even though deleted from mac now is still haunting iCloud and returning to iPad and iphone. I will continue on my journey and post again. Hopefully iCloud will catch on
Solved! At least for. Me
Having done the above. Then after deleting all backups of iOS devices and resetting said devices. Any backups on iCloud or my Mac always contained the extra 14gigs. No problems now (except pain of setting up iOS devices from scratch of course)
Great to hear except setting all iOS devices from scratch. But how did you make sure iCloud doesnt anymore contain that replicated stuff? I deleted also mac Reminders ’database’ iCloud off and switching Reminders iCloud on on mac populated my Reminders strange ’database’ attachments again.
OK. Thank you. Still this is a clear bug and big bugs of Apple so above is not a solution for the great amount of clients having this problem.
Even the worst can be that the iCloud still after all the total resets contain some legacy stuff which then populates to devices due bugs.
Sounds pretty much what I did. For me it was the “infected” backups. Are those files still on the Mac? I had to wipe my pad and phone because they and all backups had those files from the Mac.
Before iOS 15 my 14 GB was in the “Other system data category” when l checked iPhone or iPad storage. When I updated to 15 they moved to reminders. Then I was able to find them on My Mac.
Since the problem seemed to be the iOS backups in iCloud and the iOS device backups on my Mac. I had turned off iPhone and iPad to keep them from backing up then deleted the iCloud backups of them. I made sure to backup the cleaned Mac reminders folder by turning iCloud off and on again although I also just switched the back up to iCloud for reminders for all devices off too.
Interesting that backups could lock the memory of ios device so that app data can not be deleted. I havent ever done ios backups to mac and I deleted all icloud backups like nearly all from cloud what one can. Also the reminders icloud data was succesfully flushed so that mac reminders wasnt populating any strange attachments and ios reminders started to work much faster (especially when turning icloud reminders off and on). Still there is no change to delete the ios device app data of reminders app. Except that factory reset all and painful create all from zero. That is not my solution as there are similar cases without ever mac owned, also in our family, so Apple has to bring a solution to this.
I have the same problem. Backed up to the cloud last night and now it is saying that Reminders are taking up 10.39 GB. I have deleted Reminders from my phone, but it is still showing up. I my cloud, it has 4 lists with no actual reminders on them. I cannot currently back up my phone because it is saying I do not have enough storage.
Same here. I removed the reminders database on my mac that contained all the duplicates, but my iphone and ipad are still showing this 10GB of data! Am I missing anything?
No solution provided yet. I've seen more feedback on this behaviour online. What is the solution to this? I don't want to reset the whole phone and start from the scratch again..
Have to hope apple takes this seriously as its bringing devices useless.
Hello,
Same problem and Apple Watch is the big issue with storage. The Reminders do not appear on icloud.com. Tab containing the reminders is not displayed (tab on icloud is white!)
+1
Did u also clear reminders saved in iCloud? I found that all of the duplicates just reloaded back from the cloud to my phone and iPad.
How do you know what files to delete in the Mac Reminders library folder? Please detail. This is crazy. My ipad is out of memory.
I did all the steps and it did not solve the issue for me. :)
Reminders app hogging memory
