How do I delete Apple maps documents and data

This is a guess. Reinstall Maps.

Then go to Settings/Maps and turn on Optimize Storage. Leave Maps on for a while.

Next, open Maps. Next to Recents tap More, then Clear.

There’s no such option!

this is crazy. Have looked around everywhere. No solution! My Apple Maps data is at 7.9 GB!

naftali49 wrote:

There’s no such option!

this is crazy. Have looked around everywhere. No solution! My Apple Maps data is at 7.9 GB!

• Open the Settings app
• Find and tap on Maps
• Turn ON the switch for Optimize Storage (see the screen shot below)

After doing that:

• Open Maps
• Tap on Offline Maps
• Under Downloaded, tap on each entry and swipe right to left, then tap Delete

If Lawrence's solution is not working, the other solution would be to tap "Reinstall App" (in your screenshot) to get the app installed again on your device. Then, on the Home Screen, long-press Maps, tap "Remove App" and then ""Delete App."

This will delete the app and its associated data. Then you coud choose to reinstall a "fresh" version of Maps by downloading it from the App Store: App Store - Maps.

My phone does not have OFFLINE MAPS option, and no option for "Optimize Storage"

How did you get that?

naftali49 wrote:

There’s no such option!

this is crazy. Have looked around everywhere. No solution! My Apple Maps data is at 7.9 GB!

If you have an iPhone with iOS 17, as the original poster in this thread does, you definitely have that option.

You can also open Maps, tap on your icon in the bottom right corner, then Offline Maps and swipe each map right to left and tap delete.

I’ve done that and the data is still there. 5GB for an app I don’t use is insane.

Have you tried the solution I suggested above?

I’ve tried - documents and data is still there

I have the same issue, tried everything here (deleting, reinstalling) I have no offline maps as I've never even used the app and still have 8.04GB used.

I have the same issue, i dont even have the app let alone using it regularly. And yet the app is taking up 6GB of storage im so confused and annoyed.

i DO NOT have this option on my phone and its already on the latest iOS version.

Update, to make matters worse, it has continued to grow without the app even being installed! It was 8.04 when I last commented, now it's 11.93. It keeps hogging every bit of space I free up and can barely use the phone. This is extremely frustrating, and I haven't been able to find anything. I guess my next attempt will be to back up, wipe the phone, and restore it because this very much looks like a bug.

Solution:

1. Back up your phone (iCloud or Mac/PC)
2. Restore your phone to factory settings
3. Restore your phone from a backup/iCloud when prompted

Even though you make the backup with the trash data, it's cleared out during the restoration. For reference, even though my Maps file was just over 12GB and I only had ~2GB free at the time I started the process, I ended up with 35.64GB of free space. It seems there's even more garbage data clogging our phones. I hope this helps!

Edit: Adding that this was verified as the solution by the Apple Support team. I had to escalate to a specialist and discussed what I had done so far.