iPhone storage is showing that WhatsApp is taking 160Gb space but I have deleted everything

And did that action solve that issue?

Sorry but this is not the answer, its not the WhatsApp app that has the solution its related to iPhone taking the space

Same issue.

Does anyone have any solution besides backing up and reformatting/reinstalling everything?

I am having the same issue, any solution

I deleted media from whatsapp on iPhone but it does not free space.

Iphone storage display 11.45GB storage used by whatsapp

whatsapp says there are 4.02 GB of media and 7.39GB are free.

How do I "free" those 7.39GB for iphone general use?

Exactly the same problem.

The thing is than even if I continue deleting items inside WhatsApp, and I see the progress inside the app, the number in the iPhone Settings used by WhatsApp won’t move.

Before starting deleting items both numbers where similar. After 20GB of freeing space the number inside the WhatsApp keeps reducing and the one in iPhone Settings won’t move, even after restarting or hard restart the iPhone.

I have exactly the same problem. What'sApp tells me 3.47GB, iPhone storage tells me 27.9GB. An unaccounted for 24GB difference is not trivial on a 64GB phone. That's nearly 40% of my storage that's gone missing, despite my taking all the right steps to manage the data. Apple, we need a solution urgently please.

Even after updating the WhatsApp, it didn’t help and infact the space taken by WhatsApp has increased. On iPhone storage it is 5.32GB (which was 5.31GB before update), while on WhatsApp storage it is 1.12GB.

This is very irritating, there’s no solution to clear this ‘Other’ or these kind of issues. Even cheaper phones have better solution while Apple didn’t any solution since ages. Pathetic. Restoring and reinstalling is not a solution. Better I switch to Android.

When will Apple resolve this!!

It’s simply not acceptable and is causing huge problems for users when their phones get to where they think they’re full but they really aren’t.

I always support IOS over Android, how about Apple return the loyalty?

yes this is ridiculous, I often erase stuff and the size takes days or god knows what event to update. Very unhappy with Apple in general, I use it only because my employer wants iPhone otherwise never! So many things not working well, few options and crazy prices

Almost sure they won’t fix for obvious reasons. Two years ago i was surviving with 32gb now with 64gb and all photos + videos backed up and deleted from iphone, it’s almost full while i don’t have that many apps installed. IOS taking more than 40gb…

The one of stickers? That is a problem not a solution. I don’t use stickers so it is probably not relevant for me. Moreover, that does not answer the general discrepancy and the problems highlighted by me and others

They simply don't care, people still buy iPhones no matter how behind it is in features to Android phones, apple can do whatever they want. If they write "jjackass" in the back of all iphones people still buy it.

I don't know, it felt like the space 'freed' by deleting media in WhatsApp was not released to 'general use' for other apps on the iPhone, but kept allocated to WhatsApp

Same issue here, what’sapp storage 3,7gb and iPhone storage 12,3gb. My iPhone has 64gb, I need urgently free up space.