Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

Hi,

I am experiencing the same issue. My iPhone (8 - 256GB capacity) is saying it is pretty much full with Voice Memos taking 49TB (which is impossible). So far I have tried:

• removing all files from the Voice Memos app
• deleting the Voice Memos app (after this, iPhone storage still showed com.apple.VoiceMemos taking the same space as before - 49TB)
• reinstalled the Voice Memos app (and now I can't even open it, it crashes every single time I try to open it)
• resetting my iPhone settings (including restarting the phone multiple time)

None of these have worked.

Please provide guidance on how to fix this issue asap. Now I can't use my phone as it constantly throws messages about your iPhone is full, manage storage, etc.

This is happening to me too. I finally transferred the last of my Voice Memos (one by one! the most infuriating, mind draining task) to my laptop and then onto an external hard drive, deleted the app from my phone, emptied the trash, etc etc, and re-installed it. STILL taking up a mystery 15GB. What is happening?

Same here.

Nothing of the following worked:

1. Permanently deleted the voices memos.
2. Deleted the voice memos app.
3. Shut down the phone and restarted

It is still showing 100+ GB.

Can Apple please do something about this issue.

This is the data file com.apple.voicememos that’s synced through iCloud. If you wanna get rid of it, here are the steps:

1. reinstall voice memos app
2. go to setting > icloud storage > toggle off Voice Memos
3. delete Voice Memos app

Hope this help!

I have the same problem on my Iphone 11 (ios 15.6). I've deleted all my voice memos and afterwords the VoiceMemos app, but the storage keeps showing me that I have 107GB used for memos.

Please provide a fix for this!!!

I spoke to a support rep, they informed me this bug was patched on a release, and because I deleted the app, the patch was not installed. Eventually it “sorted itself out” not sure what resolved everything.

• im a software engineer on an operating system and I was happy to hear they were on top of this, the rep was informative and helpful, and really helped alleviate the stress. -hope this self resolves itself with you as well

Hello Kobozo,

Thanks for the screenshot! It does appear to be a miscalculation of some kind. Next, what iOS version do you have installed on your iPhone? Are there any updates available at all?

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In some cases, creating a backup and then restoring from that backup can help resolve some issues like this as well.

We hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction.

Take care.

I am experiencing the same issue. I have iphone 12 pro with the latest iOS version

1. I used to have data in voice memo app
2. I deleted all of the data once I found that it was taking 100G in my iphone
3. I was still able to see the data taking up space in storage page so I deleted the app
4. Now I see the same screen like this post with deleted app thumbnail.

This is taking almost half of my storage. Is there a way to fix this?

I dont think this will be cleared after 30 days as it has been over a month on my end.

My wife and I are also experiencing the same issue. We suspect it came up after the iOS 15.5 upgrade. I use a 13 Pro Max and she’s on an 11 Pro. This is outrageous. Apple, please help resolve.

I SOLVED IT ON MY IPHONE WITH THE FOLLOWING STEPS!! :)

After months trying to fix the voice memos app being to heavy issue, I came to a solution that helped me.

READ THROUGH ALL OF IT FIRST

Transferred all voice memos to computer for backup

Deleted the app

Turned off Voice Memos in iCloud storage settings

Re-installed the app making sure I didn’t enable iCloud on Voice Memos right away.

Went to Settings>Voice Memos>Clear Deleted>Immediately

Went to Voice Memos app and created a Voice Memo (this should be the only voice memo) and then deleted it immediately. After that, Voice Memos app was only a couple megabytes and then re activated iCloud.

You can try maybe just changing the setting in Voice Memo to Clear Deleted Immediately before deleting anything, then create a voice memo and dele it and see what happens. If nothing happens, then go for all of the steps. I hope this helps :)

PECOS

hi, I am struggling with the same issue. I don’t believe I saw a solution in the comments. I’ve tried hard resets and everything. The app is deleted off my phone but somehow says it’s taking 1.6 TB of space. That’s impossible! Haha But I’m having trouble now with doing anything on my phone because I don’t have the space. Any recommendations?

I finally found the solution:

 Go into settings, general, transfer or reset iPhone, reset, reset all settings

:)

Hello Kobozo,

After you deleted the Voice Memos, did you clear them out of the Recently Deleted folder as well? If not, they'll still take up space until they automatically clear out of that folder in 30 days.

In the Voice Memos app select the back button at the top left and see if you have a Recently Deleted folder showing. If you do, and there's items in there you'll want to clear them out to free up that space.

Edit or delete a recording in Voice Memos on iPhone

Cheers!

Same here.

• Restarted iPhone quite a few times.
• Also transferred the voice memos to my PC.
• I’m running latest iOS version at time (15.5) on my iPhone 12 Mini.
• Deleted and cleared all the info of the recently deleted folder and still this.