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iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

This feature/item was not there upon iOS 16.6 - but after the upgrade to iOS17 - phone storage data has been taken up due to SYNCED CONTENT.

There was no reason for it to take up nearly 20-30% of the storage away from the phone (when my device had about 30-40 gigs left I'm down to 4.23gbs). This has disallowed me to back up my device to my iMac due to now lack of storage space b/c of this issue.

This seems to be an un-tested feature/bug/issue. I'm sure many users would not be happy knowing that their device storage was depleted for some unwanted/untested feature.


Is anybody else noticing this issue as well (as among many reddit forums /alternative forums as well).


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iPhone 12 Pro

Posted on Sep 21, 2023 10:16 AM

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Posted on Nov 30, 2023 4:28 PM

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

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Nov 29, 2023 2:03 PM in response to STJ23

Before I updated my iPad to iOS 17.1.1 I had used about 32/33 storage. Now I’ve used 38 after deleting so very much that I really wanted to keep. I’ve offloaded several apps as well and still the storage is at 37/38. Why are my photos repeated on several different pages. I don’t want more than one of each photo except those that I put into albums. Is this using too much storage. I wish I could take this latest upgrade away. Not good at all, in fact an awful upgrade.


Nov 29, 2023 10:25 PM in response to STJ23

It’s actually upsetting how many of us have this issue they refuse to to ANYTHING about!!!! I don’t have the synced content issue, but all of a sudden system data is rising, along with every single app and its “documents & data”…. The sad thing is shutting down this phone or force restart DOES NOTHING. I’m constantly deleting my apps I always am clearing caches safari is always cleared.

My phone is running faster somehow but having a 64gb iPhone in almost 2024 it’s sad to see these issues.

My mom has an 11, WITH WAYYYYYYYYY MORE on her phone than me, yet her iOS is only taking up around 8 gigs and somehow system data only takes up 4-6 gigs. I’m convinced they’ll never fix this.

Dec 2, 2023 11:56 AM in response to cliffhillis

Besides the slow app starting time after upgrading 13 pro to 17.1.2 now it's a mess with the space... It looks like it's taking space from imessge and saving locally all content ( 2tb iCloud plan) imessges were 18gb with ios 16 and now at 77gb and growing.... Erasing content does nothing... 256gb almost full after ios kept it at 160-180gb all the time with iCloud... This is really incredible, who designed or approved such os?!

Dec 4, 2023 6:53 AM in response to cliffhillis

I was fine for a couple of days but when I opened my camera app, I again got the error message that I had no storage available. When I hit the "manage storage" option, the app dies and I can't get into settings to do anything. Soooo....I reboot the phone....which takes 15 mins to do and when it comes back up, my storage is fine. Well below half of the 256GB.


This is definitely BS.

Dec 4, 2023 11:21 AM in response to STJ23

My son has an iphone 11 pro and we just updated him to ios 17.1.2 from ios 16 and now his phone is stating it has no storage and he cannot do anything without it locking up on him. He went in and deleted many apps and music saved on his phone, and it worked for a few hours, but then this morning, the same thing happened all over again. This is very frustrating because he basically cannot use the phone and if he does it takes a VERY long time to get anything done and most of the time nothing is sent or saved. He cannot even get his text messages to go through.


This has now become a safety issue because he cannot rely on his phone to work and be able to communicate with anyone. He is a teenager and him not being able to communicate with me is very worrying.


APPLE PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO CORRECT THIS ISSUE ASAP!!!


iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

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