iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

Who else has updated to 17.1.2 and still having issues or experiencing new issues? I may try to withhold.

Somewhere in this thread someone said they backed up to the cloud, wiped the phone, and started over from a factory reset. I tried that; it didn’t work. While the filling up is slightly less each day, I still have to reboot my phone every morning or it will fill up by noon and “brick”.

Additionally, the reboot wiped out all my apple watch faces that had been set up for years to do what I needed under various situations (work, workouts, photography, etc). They are all gone. AND many of the watch complications are now missing from the phone settings including apple’s own weather complication. Other apps are also behaving badly including CarPlay. So I don’t recommend a hard reset if you can get by with rebooting each day and everything else working as it should.

I did submit a feedback/bug ticket with apple. I’d suggest everyone doing that b/c they said right on the page they won’t respond individually but if they see enough submissions for the same problem they’ll look into it. So maybe they don’t look at these “boards” much. For now, I’ll just get by with rebooting I guess…

Weirdest thing. Today I go to check my phone after the latest update and somehow it went from having 11 gb left to 68 gb! I don’t know what it did with my messages, but the last update may have fixed the storage issue ?

Hi everyone,

Looks like the storage issue is with Most of the apps like Youtube, Facebook, phone app music apps etc, Initially i thought it is only for Phone app but while using for 2 to 3days i got to know that when we use the apps for some time then the storage of that app increases drastically, even if there is no new downloads.

If i use the YouTube and browse the vides for 3 - 4 minutes the storage increase by 100 MB, if i use for longer time then the storage increase high for the YouTube app. So this is same for the Majority of the apps, as we use them the storage is getting increased.

This is a Major issue in the IOS 17 and i am wondering how such a big issue came out and why this was not found in the testing. There was almost 6 or 7 beta releases for IOS 17 and how could this Major bug be missed by the apple team.

After few days the storage will consumed and it is a dead end for all the users. Apple as to take a immediate action on this and try resolve the Bug ASAP.

im on 17.2 here and it doesn’t fix AT ALL.

i did a factory reset and my instagram app storage went to 1gb quickly.

apple sucks

The same problem has happened to me as well and the Apple customer support person says that that is the expected behavior, then i have showed him the complete flow how the issue is seen and then they said they will forward the issue to the apple developer team.

Has Apple said anything about this yet? The more apps I delete, the more it just fills my phone back up with synced content. I can't even take new photos.

IOS 17.2.1 here. Storage bug is still happening to me. Apps like Instagram, Youtube (and a lot more) especially increases in size and only way to lower it back down is to offload and reinstall. This is very disappointing.

I have checked today after updating to 17.0.1 and the issue is still there but this time a little different.

Now when i put some music on it shows 6 gb of music 6 gb of synced content again but it is actually 6 gb of storage when i calculate before and after.

on ios 17 it was duplicated and same 6gb would take 12 gb of storage in total. Lets hope ios developers fix this soon completely as now on the graphic for storage music and synced content are the same size still.

I have the exact same issue and reported to Apple support team thy say it might take some time to resolve the issue not sure how much time they might take.

But this is a show-stopper issue and each time we use the phone app the storage increases and after few days it will consume the complete storage and it's a dead end.

The same problem, and have seen it now on countless other iPhones. If you select "Music" in the iPhone Storage breakdown, the Synced content value is exactly the same storage value as the actual downloaded music data size. They are duplicating the music storage space twice. I think it is just a reporting bug, as it reports correctly within the "About" menu in General....thought they would have corrected this in 17.0.1, but they didn't!!!

I upgraded to iOS17 and was quickly told I was out of storage. Messages seems to take up a lot. I go there and it has every photo listed at 510.5 MB… for an iPhone photo?!? I then look at videos. Same thing. 510.5 MB even though all videos are different lengths etc. something is definitely wrong.

Me too! I’m devastated! I’ve deleted several Apps to make more space but hardly made any difference! Please sort this out Apple soon!