iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue

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.

This is where I leave you all....best of luck!!

So, I had a couple of IT folks tell me that it sounded like the problem with my phone was that the OS itself was corrupt. No matter how many times I erased and backed up from iCloud, it wasn't going to be fixed until the OS itself was fixed. That seemed to track so I looked to see if I was eligible for an upgrade and I was so I just bit the bullet and got a new phone. I know this isn't an option for everyone but it solved my problem. The storage is holding steady every day.

So, for those still trying to fix this, I would suggest trying to get the actual iOS removed and reinstalled. I have no idea how hard this might be but would certainly try to have someone at an Apple store do it if that's possible. That might fix it...or...putting on my favorite conspiracy theory hat...maybe some of us have this happen so we'll buy new devices. These days...anything is possible!

Good luck all!!! I know this is frustrating!!

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.

Today i observe another issue with iphone storage since ios 17.0.1. The issue is that phone app is growing constantly after every time i open the phone app or view a contact. I am trying also to figure it out how to set up a full screen photo but not via poster. For now the only way is to delete the contact and save it as new then take a picture or select one from photo library change ratio to 3:5 and then use the assign to contact option trough share. Bear in mind that this is not always working but most times. Sorry if this is not fully relate but it might be helpful for some so i though i’d share:) Any one else have this issue?

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.

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.

I have the same issue in my iPhone. After i have updated to IOS 17, I can see a bug in storage. It is loading unnecessary storages. Even though I optimise my storage everytime, still the storage is loading more. Then i installed to IOS 17.0.2, But no fixes. I request APPLE to fix this bug as soon as possible in the coming update.

I installed iOS 17.0.3 earlier today and it did basically nothing. At 90GB full out of 128GB capacity, I’m still about 40GB more full than the 50GB I used to be at on iOS 16. Apple has this info as well as some system diagnostic files and supposedly an engineer is looking into it. I am very concerned.

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 ?

I am still dealing with same issue. I put all my pictures in the cloud/ I no longer receive my mail on my phone I desperately need more gb / now when I take a picture on my I phone I can’t send it to my email address because there is no message green logo in the cloud. So I have been asking my friend to send the pictures to my email.

64 gb should not be sold. I have an older friend he cannot do the download because of the same issue.

we both have 11 pro iPhone kind of joke because of not having convenience of taking spontaneous for that fact any pictures.

I am disappointed as I pay 2.99 for Icloud storage 200 gb. Not thrilled and am extremely disappointed .

thanks for reaching out. Have a good evening I am responding my iPad not phone,

Have you tried a roll back?

Hold down the Option/Alt key and click on Restore iPhone. You should be able to select the version of iOS you wish to install on the iPhone from your downloads folder. Click on Open. A message will appear saying which version of iOS you will install – this should be the one you have selected.

Restore from back-up;

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud. Tap Manage Account Storage, then tap Backups. Tap a backup to see more details about it, choose which information to back up, or delete the backup.

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. This might not work with a 128gb device though since ProRes is disabled.