iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

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

everytime I try to get the iOS 17 update it keeps on saying that I have too much storage even after I have deleted all I can off my phone

Having the exact same issues with messages. Upgraded last week, had 2-3 gb used for messages. Now it’s at nearly 30.

Avoid! It's a worse user experience. Unless you need to upgrade stay with what works.

I have this issue as well on my iPhone and iPad. It doesn't appear to actually be using the storage space, as it's reporting more space used that my iPad actually has.

Have the exact same problem too. I have always manually synced my music library with my Mac, and since iOS 17 (and indeed, still on iOS 17.0.1), "Synced content" has appeared, and is the same size as my "Music" data, i.e. duplicated.

Phoned Apple support, escalated to tier 2, screenshots etc. and was ultimately advised that it's a known issue being investigated 🤷🏼‍♂️

The same .... except I followed the help desk advice .. and now my phone is essentially bricked.

64GB iPhone Xs.

Prior to Upgrade:

iOS ~9GB.

System Data ~1GB

Music ~ 14GB (Subset synced from Mac)

Free ~4GB

I was asked to free up another 6GB to complete the download which I did (Maps, Videos, Apps and Podcasts).

Post Upgrade:

Synced Content 10.8GB

iOS ~9GB.

System Data ~1GB

Music ~ 14GB (Subset synced from Mac)

Free ~0GB

Basically it had robbed me of 10GB of data.

I raised a call with Apple last Thursday. Was told to wait and he would call me back today with advice from Dev Team.

Advice was to do a fresh backup to my Mac ... totally erase the phone to factory settings, and restore from the backup. I was skeptical but I did it. (removed my music in order to be able to do the backup).

NO NOT IN ANY CIRUMSTANCES DO THIS.

Post Restore:

Phone is full

Synced Content now 24GB

iOS 10GB

System Data 8GB

iMessages has doubled in size.

My iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 16.6.1 was using 55.7GB of the 256GB available. When I went to buy my iPhone 15 Pro, I thought "oh I only need a 128GB 15 Pro" and just migrated. I got a warning that I was running low on space, and I was using 108GB of 128GB on the new 15 Pro. Apple's Podcasts was taking up 20GB so I was able to delete that and get down to 88GB used out of 128GB. What is also weird is the podcast app I use (Overcast) does not appear in the iPhone Storage screen on the old phone, and yet is the largest app at over 6GB. So I called Apple support and escalated to a supervisor who was able to screen share both phones simultaneously. He said there might be an issue with Apple's own apps reporting the wrong info, so he had me delete Apple Music and Apple Podcasts to see if that helped (I don't use either). It did not do anything. He then made me delete everything on the iPhone 15 Pro and reinstall from iCloud backup. After that, I was only using 75GB, but discovered my photos hadn't loaded. Once I started that sync, I could see my storage growing. I suspect it will end up in the 85-90GB range, as it had previously. I have now wasted 3 more hours on this whole upgrade saga, and will call Apple again after all of the photos/videos load (optimized) to try again. I worry the next step is to completely wipe the OS and start over. This might be the worst iPhone upgrade process of the 14 or 15 I've been through.

Big big issue, a few days ago I cleared out some junk from photos and got my phone down to 60gb and again today I cleared down and when I go to check storage it’s up to 94gb… Almost all social media apps are 5-10gb all of a sudden. So frustrating I hope this issue is actually addressed.

I promise you this post is related to my issue. There is no way my storage goes from 60gb to suddenly 94gb in 2 days right after updating to IOS 17. I have cleared cache on all apps already. Previous to this issue my discord was 500mb, now it’s 13gb… Never has it gone over 500mb and I don’t even use it often.

I am not going to uninstall and reinstall the apps since it’s all my apps that have tripled or quadrupled in size. I will wait till bug fix.

Similar issue, and it’s unfortunate how widespread it is. My issue on my 64gb iPhone 12, is how my apps take up hundreds of MB’s if not a GB or so of “documents and data”.

iOS 16 never had this issue so it’s sad to see this. I have maybe 20 apps downloaded. YouTube, Snap, Facebook, Instagram etc, all fill up on documents and data extremely quick.

+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.