iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

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!

I got 10 extra gigs on my 128 gig iPhone after I upgraded to 17.2. Still not a fix, but at least I can take new photos again.

I have submitted a complaint to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission). Would advise those having the synced content issue do the same.

Yup it offered 17.0.2 as part of the migration. Of course the install failed so I had to start over again. I think I had 3 shutdowns and startups during this phone to phone migration.

I have the same issue. My phone app now uses almost 6GB, after adding maybe 20 contact posters. And every time I am opening a contact the storage used by the phone app increases. The contact app itself only uses 212MB and it says that about 60MB of that is used for contact pictures.

17.0.3 fixed the issue for me. Now synced content is the music uploaded via my pc and the music app is 229mb. But still i have the issue with phone app getting bigger and bigger now at 2.2gb and i dont have a posters or voicemail or anything in it except 300 contacts.

I am also having this issue. When I recreate a the contact and select a different photo it will GO BACK to the original photo. Even though I deleted it. It’s making me crazy!!

yeah this sucks the minute I did upodate I had storage issues that i did not have before..what is aolution?

Hey there- I just had this same issue, and asked a friend of mine who is the tech guy for a private school that uses Apple products. Might seem a little overly obvious, but it totally worked for me. I went from my phone being full, to it now saying I have 42GB available. Hope this helps!

It doesn’t resolve the issue.

On iPhone 12 and iOS 17.1.2

Updated to 17.1.2 and looked good most of the day and yet AGAIN my storage space is near filled up. COME ON APPLE … this is horse 💩

I don’t get how all of a sudden my messages are taking up 10x the space of the 27k photos/videos I have. I can’t back it up

or sync it either

Hopefully the images attach correctly. You have to look closely b/c the storage amounts when I wake up each morning show the iOS taking up A LOT of space. It’s in gray so hard to see if you’re not looking for it. After a reboot, it drops back down to my normal usage.

Im conditioning myself to check as soon as I wake up so I can do the reboot. It takes several minutes for it to complete. Longer than usual TBH but it seems to make things work better throughout the day. Yesterday, it hit that falsely advertised limit and killed the work call I was on.

How do we ensure Apple knows? I’m assuming they aren’t reading all this.

My storage is a complete mess… 72.5 gb free and 60 gb free, depending where you look.

iCloud drive is also taking 20 gb after every whatsapp backup until you reboot