Storage grows quickly for unknown document after upgrading to iOS 16

I have iPhone 12 with 128GB. After upgrading to iOS16, the storage got full several times. Finally. I removed 15GB photos, and observed for a week without taking photos, the storage goes back to almost full again. I found "Document & Data" under photo category grows by 13GB from 38.4GB to 51.4GB, while iCloud Photos still says it can "Save 28.65GB" by uploading my photo. It indicates that it does not get more photos. But, I don't know where the 13GB went since there are no photo/video and other big files added in the past 7 days. I also cleaned up history and website data for Safari and the other applications' cache, and didn't find any size growth of applications from iPhone storage. Any advices? What documents or data grow that quick?

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 12

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 2:37 PM

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Nov 5, 2022 4:38 PM in response to tifrommelville

Hello tifrommelville,


This page can help out with managing your storage on the device: How to check the storage on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support


Use recommendations to optimize storage
In the Storage section of Settings, your device might offer recommendations for optimizing your storage. To optimize your storage:
1. Tap Show All to see all the recommendations for your device.
2. Read the description of each recommendation, then tap Enable to turn it on or tap the recommendation to review the contents you can delete.


Use your device to check its storage
1. Go to Settings > General > [Device] Storage. You might see a list of recommendations for optimizing your device's storage, followed by a list of installed apps and the amount of storage each one uses.
2. Tap an app's name for more information about its storage. Cached data and temporary data might not be counted as usage.
In the detailed view you can:
•Offload the app, which frees up storage used by the app, but keeps its documents and data.
•Delete the app, which removes the app and its related data.
•Depending on the app, you might be able to delete some of its documents and data.
If your device is almost full and can't free up space, you might get a Storage Almost Full alert. If you see this alert, you should check the storage recommendations or you need to offload some less-used content like videos and apps. 


Cheers.

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