Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

Hey Chris

it should work even if your voice memo exceed the iphone storage. My voice memo was giving me 2.3TB although my iphone storage was 128GB. Just delete the voice memo app and turn it off from icloud. And transfer your data to a new iphone even if it has same storage size. Make sure both phones have latest iOS versions. This worked for me, let me know if it works for you.

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

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

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