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Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

Hi all,


For some reason, my Voice Memos app is taking up a whopping 27GB on my iPhone XR. I tried deleting all the voice memos on my phone, and I'm still getting the same result. I've also tried resetting it a few times. I'm about to try to restore it from a backup, but if anyone else has other ideas or has run into this before, please let me know. Thanks!

iPhone XR

Posted on Apr 15, 2022 11:39 PM

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Posted on Jun 16, 2022 4:34 PM

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.


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Sep 21, 2022 11:40 AM in response to Kobozo

I deleted the app, reinstalled it with other icloud ID and the problem was solved! Then you can delete and install once again with your own ID.

Voice Memos Taking Up Significant Storage

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