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

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?

Read this:

https://faq.whatsapp.com/iphone/account-and-profile/how-to-free-up-storage-on-whatsapp/?lang=en

So what I’ve done is removing WhatsApp and install it again. The 2 numbers are now aligned but I haven’t solved the problem. Everything that was wrongly associated to WhatsApp in the iPhone storage now simply moved to System data which are impossible to decrease. On a 64 gb phone, over 40 gb are taken by system data, this is unacceptable (I’ve already done everything to improve like deleting safari cache, deleting apps data etc)

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.

Same problem here: whatsapp showing 300mb used and iOS showing 2.5gb used. I also noticed last updates of iOS consumes more than half of my 64gb which was much lower in previous iOS versions. Wondering if that is a strategy to make the installed base unusable after 2 years or so... so that most would have to purchase a new phone obviously with much more memory and higher price…

This is an ongoing problem for some time; and all it leads is to Apple forcefully pushing upon you to upgrade to more Apple storage. Apple needs to fix this problem. I have 330mb of WhatsApp in use, but we have up 1.8gb in settings. wtf 😳

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

I’m having the same issue. iPhone storage tells me that WhatsApp has 16gb usage and WhatsApp says only 4.9Gb usage.

I ended up with backup and re-install everything on the iPhone. Sorry

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

Yes, reinstalling everything resulted with reasonable storage usage