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STJ23 Author

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34 points

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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Posted on Sep 21, 2023 10:16 AM

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Natbalsar

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14 points

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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Sep 28, 2023 6:04 AM in response to The Illuminator

Me too. It would be nice to hear something from Apple.

Dkrajput

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8 points

Sep 30, 2023 4:08 AM in response to STJ23

The default phone application in my ios17 weighs 1.19 GB

and many more storage bugs are there

why are they not doing something about that

STJ23 Author

Level 1

34 points

Sep 30, 2023 6:54 AM in response to Peter Blacksberg

Well hopefully it's informative, but also hope apple pays attention and do most testing

Oct 4, 2023 5:40 PM in response to STJ23

17.0.3 appears to have fixed my duplicated storage issue with SYNCED CONTENT & iTunes based music. I'm now back to where is was with available strage with iOS16.

STJ23 Author

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34 points

Oct 4, 2023 7:27 PM in response to SRtimetravel

If you go into your music , look at how much space it's taking vs sync content. It's still the same, they seemt tontry to hide it, not fix the issue

Oct 4, 2023 7:37 PM in response to SRtimetravel

Lucky for you! This update did not fix the storage issue for me. I am so upset.

Oct 12, 2023 9:40 PM in response to STJ23

May I ask the status of your storage now? I only got a very small amount of space back after the update to 17.0.3. 😔

Oct 15, 2023 5:37 AM in response to STJ23

This is ridiculous. I took out half my photos, and now it is still too full! MY PHONE WONT EVEN TAKE A SCREENSHOT because of the storage issue.

Oct 20, 2023 6:26 PM in response to STJ23

I’m having the same issue, but mine is way worse, I had 64gb free now I have only 34gb free, without even downloading anything, my messages app is taking 1.34gb, that’s nuts, and iOS is taking 26gb

Oct 25, 2023 12:46 AM in response to STJ23

Please share case id

Oct 25, 2023 2:21 PM in response to STJ23

iOS 17.1 and the app storage bug isn’t fixed Apple ???? How is that possible … bad service

jegulzz

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12 points

Nov 1, 2023 8:15 AM in response to MauWulfric

I have the same issue. I am so upset I downloaded iOS 17

Nov 11, 2023 12:38 PM in response to The Illuminator

IOS 17.1.1 , the issue remains.

Apps are still using many GBs of storage while on IOS 16 it didn’t happen

Nov 13, 2023 8:37 PM in response to guboji

From what I've seen, the entire debacle was initiated out of someone's boredom. Much of the previous software was functioning fine on all phones. Hope you got it corrected somewhat, at least.

STJ23 Author

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34 points

Nov 14, 2023 11:47 AM in response to augierjp

Try removing older/ unused apps also all social media accounts.

iOS 17 Storage Space Bug / Issue