iCloud Drive taking too much iPhone space - "Your most recently accessed files are downloaded to this device"

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iCloud Drive taking too much iPhone space - "Your most recently accessed files are downloaded to this device"

Hello, I'm having an issue where iCloud Drive is taking up nearly 70GB of my iPhone's memory.

I have almost no files inside the iCloud Drive (maximum 200MB of files) and when I enter the iPhone Storage, the iCloud Drive takes up 69.67GB and contains the following message:

"your most recently accessed files are downloaded to this device icloud drive ".

I researched here on the apple forum and in several other places, none of them could give a solution. Can anyone help me make iCloud Drive take up less space on the iPhone? (again, i have almost no files inside iCloud Drive!!!)

Thanks

iPhone 14, iOS 17

Posted on Feb 21, 2024 11:21 PM

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Feb 22, 2024 11:49 AM in response to Deepak_1708

edit: i found a solution. Go to settings->iCloud and deactivate iCloud Drive. After that wait a few seconds and activate it again.

icloud Storage local on your iPhone should be cleaned now.

But be aware local stored files which weren’t synced with icloud may be lost.

I got the Same problem and some people before us too there is another thread with exactly the same problem but noone has a solution except deactivating iCloud Drive completely.

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