Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

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

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.

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.

• 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.

again same here same problem it’s so annoying it’s taking up 86GB on my iPhone XS and idk how to get rid of it any ideas? Didn’t see any thing that works I tried everything ,please help if u have any way of solving this issue :|

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.

Same question as above

my phone says that Documents and Data take up 44.5 GB, but the voice memos themselves only take up 33.5GB

When I delete other items on my phone the storage stats update to a smaller number,

when I delete individual Voice Memos, the Voice Memo (lower number on screen shot) goes down, but the Documents and Data storage number appear “stuck”

please fix. Thank you

Same problem. 9.5TB reported by Voice Memos whether I have it installed or deleted. I even cleaned out my iCloud Voice Memos data. I seems to be preventing me from backing up my iPhone for over 2 months now, with an error saying that my machine does not have enough space to back up my phone. So I am unable to do a backup and restore to try to solve this issue.

Apple, please fix this!!!

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 have the same issue on iPhone SE(2) and it prevents me from migrating to a newly purchased iPhone SE(3). I had spent more than 6 hours on 5 hourlong calls with Apple support, and even tried to go to Apple store to resolve the issue. I was sent to go and call the support by Apple store employee. Still no resolution and I am running out of time to return my old iPhone SE2 as a trade it.

Need help.

I have tried backing up to a computer - did not work

I have tried backing up to iCloud - did not work

I have removed all the Voicememo messages and cleared Deleted items. I even uninstalled the Voice Memo app, and it still show in the iPhone storage (which takes 2 hours to populate, btw) that I have 24 TB of VoiceMemos stored somewhere on iCloud.

Please notify me when the solution for this issue is found.

Not having much hope, given that the first message about the issue is dated way to far in the past...

This is my problem, too. I added up the several tiny files (less than 50 MB - yes, megabytes), then rebooted, then offloaded the files, then rebooted, then deleted the app's data (which failed), then deleted the app, then rebooted, then HARD rebooted, and I still have a phantom 238.43 GB of "used storage" on my 128 GB iPhone. At the top, it still shows me just 67.2 GB of 128 GB used.

And of course, I can't back up because it can't find the files, so I can't restore my last backup, or I lose all manner of things. HELP, APPLE!

Hi,

thank you for your time, i have done that, even i have deleted all my memo than deleted the app, restarted and downloaded with another id, but nothing has changed.

i treid to make a backup with a third party app on TB hard drive, 2 hours-> 8%-> 360GB. such a fuckedup situition

Thanks again

I am also experiencing this problem.

I have 42 TERABYTES of voice memos. Tech support states that this measurement also takes into consideration voice memos in your imessages.

I imagine this also has a correlation to the “bug” where backup are waay larger than the storage you have on your phone.

Apple needs to provide a way to filter on saved attachments in imessage that may contribute to impossible to manage backups.

particularly voice memos, which if this problem is the direct cause of huge backups is ridiculous.

42 terabytes of voice memos?

And my only option is to delete all my messages? To some, that’s fine. -but I have years worth of conversations I prefer to keep.

i don’t even use voice messages in iMessage enough to imagine how 42 terabytes of storage could have accumulated, and the real question is.

If my voice memos do not persist in the app, where is this storage going? And why am I accountable for audio files I no longer have any access to.

I have had EVERY iPhone that has ever existed and every time I go to backup something happens,

boot loops and I lose my data.

corruption, and I lose my data.

apple needs to be more transparent and on top of this ongoing issue.

”pointing someone in the right direction” is not the answer

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