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 Apr 17, 2022 6:22 AM

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!

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