Voice Memos taking up storage and not deleting!

My phone suddenly started showing 9.25GB of storage for the voice memos app (which is completely empty by the way) and whenever i try to delete the app both from my home screen and from the manage storage section in settings it doesn’t delete and starts showing as com.apple.VoiceMemos and the documents and data remain the same. i’ve tried everything from deleting, reinstalling, offloading, restarting my phone nothing is working and i am so mad my phone has become full to the brim and i can’t use it for anything! APPLE FIX THIS

iPhone 6, iOS 12

Posted on Apr 29, 2022 5:46 PM

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abbycdef_

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Posted on Oct 18, 2022 2:38 AM

Hi, I was having the same issues and I just RESOLVED it.

Context: I was running out of storage (Voice Memo was taking up 1.6TB in a 512GB ipad 🤯) so I deleted all my voice memos from the memo list + from the Recently Deleted folder. Checked storage and it was still taking up space. Restarted my ipad, offloaded the app, uninstalled the app (and subsequently deleted the Documents & Data), but it appeared as com.apple.VoiceMemos instead, and it still took up space.

Solution:

Reinstall Voice Memo
Double check Storage (it was still there)
Close all open apps
Open Settings > General > Date & Time
Turn off Set Automatically
Manually set the date back 1-2 years ago
Close Settings
Check Voice Memos [delete if some memos reappeared (nothing showed in mine)]
Close Voice Memos
Go back to Date & Time > Set Automatically
Close Settings
Reopen Settings > Storage
It should reflect the corrected storage now!

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Voice Memos taking up storage and not deleting!

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