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iPhone Podcasts consumes very high storage

Podcasts consumes abnormally high "Documents & Data" storage. I deleted Podcasts app and reinstalled. Then "Documents & Data" usage dropped almost Zero. But it became over 1.7GB now. I deleted cached data after I listened but storage use does not drop as much as the cached podcast I deleted. As result, storage usage steadily increases. As you see following screenshot, I have only 10.4MB cached podcast, but "Documents & Data" shows 1.72 GB usage.

I use iPhone OS language in English. But most of podcasts I listened were Japanese. So, I wonder Podcast app cannot delete cached podcasts properly if their files were in double byte characters and OS language is single byte language like English. Does anyone have same issue? Is this known issue?


iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14

Posted on Sep 25, 2021 11:10 PM

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Posted on Sep 25, 2021 11:52 PM

SravanKrA,


Thank you for the answer.

"Sync Podcasts" option was enabled on my iPhone. I have only iPhone. There is no other devices to sync. I did not save any podcasts. They were only downloaded. Still are those downloaded podcasts supposed to be kept in background even after deleting them?


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Sep 25, 2021 11:52 PM in response to SravanKrA

SravanKrA,


Thank you for the answer.

"Sync Podcasts" option was enabled on my iPhone. I have only iPhone. There is no other devices to sync. I did not save any podcasts. They were only downloaded. Still are those downloaded podcasts supposed to be kept in background even after deleting them?


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Sep 28, 2021 8:45 PM in response to Kat928

I turned off "Sync Podcasts" option after deleting and downloading the Podcast app, but it did not improve or fix the situation. After playing about 24 hours podcast (I listen twice the speed, about 48 hours data download), difference between the "Document & Data" usage and sum of downloaded data is already 0.7GB.


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iPhone Podcasts consumes very high storage

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