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Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4

Yes may be a stupid question BUT i can't find this anywhere online. So I need a bit of help on this.

I get a pop-up on the screen every so often ...

Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4 only AFTER updating to iOS5. After update iOS5 seems to have stolen nearly a BIG chunk of my iPhone's memory/storage for itself, so had to remove a number of apps to give myself at least 700mb free. Message pop-up still appears. I then removed yet more apps - note that with the old iOS4's I never had this issue & all the apps I was removing now worked perfectly fine on the phone!

Then had over 2gb free & yet I was STILL getting the message. My iCloud is 100% free (ie 5gb available). Storage in settings/useage shows up as 2gb+ free.

So what's going on???

The pop-up states: "Storage Almost Full you can manage your storage in Settings."

Dell PC, Windows 7, 64 Bit

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 3:02 AM

133 replies

Nov 7, 2011 6:50 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I suspect that this problem cleared up on its own and not because of anything I did. The day after I started seeing this problem, I disabled all iCloud syncing (backup, docs, apps, everything). After that, I didn't see the message again. In the last week, I have re-enabled all the iCloud options that I turned off with the exception of iCloud Backup. I will enable that today and see if the problem comes back. I don't really think any of this had a real affect, but maybe it will help someone if they are still seeing this message.

Nov 7, 2011 7:25 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

Terry98's comment above is correct for restoring the iPhones problems with OTHER. Other does not affect whether the iPhone is full or not as I managed to get my iPhone with 2gb+ free and still i was getting the problem.

The solution is to WIPE everything & do a complete factory restore (ie restore from an earlier backup). For some strange reason it sorts out the "storage full" message on the iPhone even if the Other section has over 1.5gb (like mine does).

Unfortunately now I seem to have a very slow/buggy iPhone 4 running iOS5, is there a way to go back to the old iOS? As my iPhone 4 hangs on occasions now also pressing the home screen causes a huge delay before it finally responds. Hope they make this iOS faster on all devices, even my 4s isn't as quick as I felt it would be

Dec 1, 2011 9:08 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

Quick fix for this that I found: settings,iCloud,storage & backup,turn off iCloud backup,sync phone with iTunes, then go back into iCloud and turn iCloud backup on again and your problem should go away. That's what I did anyway.

Grovech

Level 1

5 points

Dec 8, 2011 12:34 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I started having this exact same issues a couple days ago. It is wreaking havoc on my phone!

Nothing is performing correctly and no matter how much I delete, it doesn't last.

What is filling up that space on it's own???

Dec 8, 2011 5:02 PM in response to Grovech

Did you try going to iCloud and turn off iCloud storage backup, then sync your phone with iTunes then turn iCloud backup back on. After I did this I've had no further problems and lost no data. I also called apple tec support and they had never heard of this problem. I guess they don't read the forums. Anyway hope it works for you too.

Dec 21, 2011 2:31 PM in response to Ramblingman

Turning off iCloud backup seems to have worked for me, without the need for an iTunes sync. Something is eating up data, probably a log file somewhere and it may be a particular app that uses the iCloud feature that's not working as it should. This would explain why not everyone is having the problem. I suspect that we all have the same problem app installed. A couple i have installed and suspect might be a problem are: Tunein radio and Sygic GPS. These are always open when I experience the problem. We'll see how it goes with the iCloud backup turned off.

Dec 21, 2011 2:34 PM in response to rodent1309

The "Other" is stored data, such as mail etc.

Kaseb

Level 1

0 points

Dec 25, 2011 10:46 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I had the same problem and I disabled the iCloud backup and deleted all the I cloude backup and and my free space went from 6 to 13 GB so the backup was actually stored in my iPhone memory and that's something I didn't know.

So to solve this problem I turned off iCloud backup and deleted the old backup done by iCloud in my iPhone

Azgard

Level 1

10 points

Jan 11, 2012 2:35 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

The issue is caused by significant number of piled (not synch) iCloud changes in its journal. You need to force iCloud backup to free up space. To do ot, you need to connect iPhone/iPad to power, then to wi-fi and chose "back up now" in iCloud settings.

rah1420

Level 1

14 points

Jan 19, 2012 8:10 PM in response to Azgard

+1 to Azgard's reply. This was driving me nuts for two days. I had 1GB free out of 12, couldn't understand where it was all going. Connected to power/wifi, backed up, and I'm back to 5.6GB free and no more messages.

kkayj66

Level 1

0 points

Feb 2, 2012 5:24 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

Yah I have know idea how to fix that I'm having the same problem it's really annyoing cause I can't update or do anything it's SAD:( PLZZZZZZZZ HELP

rah1420

Level 1

14 points

Feb 2, 2012 5:33 PM in response to kkayj66

Dude, do this. Problem solved.

Feb 5, 2012 1:24 AM in response to rah1420

I believe the problem of "storage almost full..." refers to the amount of storage in iCloud you've paid for. The message might be an Apple trick to get you to pay £70 to solve your problem....

Azgard

Level 1

10 points

Feb 6, 2012 9:48 AM in response to JavierMolina

It is not true. Please check my post here. It is very simple and technically viable solution.

Feb 6, 2012 9:56 AM in response to Azgard

As you can see, since I replied to your post, I did what you suggested above and followed a whole lot of deleting this ant that without a positive result.

It was easier to cough up and get more storage... probel solved

Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4