Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

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 still using IPhone SE from 2013 year, but that not the case I had the same problem with voice recorder. But I solved it by doing - go to Settings->General->Reset->Reset All Setting. And that what happened after..recordings which was on phone hidden, showed up.

OH MY GOD, YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!! After nearly half a year of trying to switch to a new iPad and being unable to do so because my old iPad had this glitch, I can finally do so. I kept trying all other methods but I tried yours and it ISTANTLY worked. I legitimately can't thank you enough.

Hai All, I've tried all solution attach here and nothing works.

Is there any other solution option?

Please help.

I've uninstall the memo apps, reinstall it, but toggle doesn't show up on icloud storage settings

Go to Settings, General, iPhone Storage, Voice Memos, then select [Delete App] - that is the only way I've found to get rid of the old Voice Memos...otherwise, they stay in memory as "Deleted", but they're still there. After you've verified that there is no more storage taken by the Voice Memo app AND RECORDED FILES, you can go back to the App Store and reload the Voice Memo app.

I’m having the same exact issue and once I delete voice memo it still shows up “com.apple.voice memos” like this is there a solution to this

I finally found the solution:

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

:)

Me too I’m struggling with this issue.

is showing up 2.58 TB !🤯

iOS 15.5

Hi kobozo

im going through the same issue

im currently running an iPhone 11 with the newest software. Not sure how to get Apple’s attention on this issue as it looks pretty significant.

I tried deleting the Voice Memo app and resetting all settings, and bam the stupid 744 GB went away. I can finally back up and transfer data to my new phone. It’s definitely worth a try y’all.

Hi,

i have done the same, but no success, i deleted voice memo, download it with another Icloud account and still i have 2.1 TB voice memo and i even open the app.

I'm struggling with the same problem.

is showing up 151.81 TB.

IOS 15.5

Apple assistance told me to do a back up from my mac, but it doesn't work, continuing failures.

Same problem here…

Hi,

I've tried the method mentioned but it does not seem like I have the voice memos icon on my iCloud storage page. Any idea how I can go about this?

Thanks