Health app data is consuming over 5GB of my iPhone's space

For some reason the heart data in my health App is just getting massive. It's now taking up +5GB on my iPhone16. Of course I have read all the advice to go into the Health app, navigate to the Heart Rate area, scroll to the bottom select show all Data and delete all.. but it just won't go away.. in fact it keeps growing. I've gone into my profile selected the Garmin App and then all data and deleted that as well.. but NOTHING. It just won't go away. Any out of the box ideas other than buy an Android phone would be great.


For example I have been in and deleted this data on at least 10 occasions.. every time I go back in it reappears. I've deleted days individually and manually and then they come back. I've deleted all data.. and it is still there. And yes I have a very low resting heart rate!



Thanks

JM




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Original Title: Health Data now over 5GB

iPhone 16 Pro Max

Posted on Aug 12, 2025 2:46 AM

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Aug 12, 2025 5:29 AM in response to JohnnyM77

JohnnyM77 wrote:

Any out of the box ideas other than buy an Android phone would be great.

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Aug 12, 2025 7:17 PM in response to SravanKrA

Hi SravanKrA, thanks so much for your suggestion, but unfortunately it did not work.


To explain the 3 screenshots below. I followed your instructions yesterday which explains the second screenshot, the phone thinks it no longer has Data in the health App. However when I then check the iPhone's storage it now says Health Data has come down, but only to 3.7GB.


In the first screenshot (equivalent to your third) I circle the fact the health App icon looks different in the Data Sources screen (inverted colour).. might that have something to do with it?








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