iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

#everyone, update 17.1.2 is available, it works, try it. I ran it on a 13 Pro max, it was fine.

I had the same problem. Just kept doing the forced restart (4 times) and the iPhone Memory Full error went away for me.

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 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.

+1. The update to version 17 'stole' 8 GB. Updating to 17.0.1 and performing iTunes backups returned around 4 GB. However, 4 GB are still 'missing.'

Today's update to 17.0.2 has worsened the situation, once again, with my 64 GB iPad Air 3rd Gen now almost completely full...

iPadOS 17.0.2: 9.48 GB

System Data: 9.44 GB

I find the System Data value, in particular, to be extremely high.

For those wondering what is happening with this issue, I have been working with a senior support person and Apple engineering, and here is some hopefully encouraging news:

”Im back into office and see Engineering has sent one last final email. They have now deemed this as something they are currently working on and will release something soon (no estimated timeframe) to fix this issue. This usually is in the form of a new update. They have gotten other reports on this as well and have now considered this an emerging issue. So with that, if you do choose to exchange your device that is still totally fine if you do not prefer to wait on the fix they are working on.”

This method got my sustem data reduced from 90gb to just 7gb.

1. ⁠Open settings/camera/formats and enable ProRes.

2. ⁠Open camera app and enable ProRes (top left corner)

3. ⁠Let the camera clear the cache space to record ProRes video. You have to repeat multiple times while changing in between 30 and 60 from the top corner.

hope it helped

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.

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…

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.

My iPhone 13 Pro 256gb had been having issues with memory being used up for no reason ever since iOS 17 to 17.3. Memory problems until I updated to iOS 17.4. So far this update has fixed the issues and my memory seems stable. Time will tell if Apple finally got it fixed.

I’m having the same issue. Contacted Apple support today. They acted like they’ve never heard of this before. Also tried to tell me it was normal. I sent screen shots as well. Told me to download update to my Mac then to devices. Said it will correct the issue. I haven’t tried that yet.