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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

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Jun 1, 2018 2:18 PM in response to TheOnlyTazman

This is what worked for me, as I had the same issue. Really frustrating, but once you understand whats needed its a fairly straight forward fix 😉


Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer.

Uncheck everything under Summary, Options section in iTunes

Then for photos and music uncheck sync photos and music under their respective tabs.

Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer again.

The go to Preferences and check under devices. Delete all your oldest iPhone backups, but make sure the latest backup is at least present in the list.

Then go to your iPhone under Settings, General, Usage. Delete music and photos & camera info (assuming all your photos and music is stored on your mac).

Then eject your phone, and restart it.

Quite iTunes and open it again.

Put in your iPhone and it should show that there is no photos or music on it. This process should have freed up the cache and backup data that is taking up unnecessary space.

Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer again.

Then for photos and music check sync photos and music under their respective tabs. Select custom playlists you created and albums if iPhone shows its over capacity.

Now sync again. And boom!! 🙂 it should work and sync all your music and photos/videos you had saved in iPhoto etc.

No need to restore. Now, being pedantic, but back up to iCloud and computer again 😉

Enjoy 🙂


Hope this helps you guys. Now, if only Apple can update iTunes to sync custom iPhone created custom playlists that one creates on the fly, two ways, without causing conflicts or duplicates in iTunes, from iPhone to iTunes 🙂 Been asking for this feature for over 3 years now lol. Would also be nice to have iTunes show messages / sms's and allow the user to create custom lists to group and sorted messages like it does for its photos from iPhoto 😉


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Oct 26, 2011 6:52 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I started having the same issue this week

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Was somehow at 0 space left on my iPhone4 (with iOS5) and got the message.

That was fine, I deleted some unused apps and made approx 500mb of space.

Still was getting the message, so I deleted more. Now I have almost a GB free and am still getting the message quite frequently.

I shut off the iPhone are rebooted hoping that would clear it out, but it still continues.

I have no video installed, few photos and mainly apps and music because I lost everything when I updated to iOS5 and reinstalled from a fresh format.

So it's pretty clean considering I've had it a year...


Why can't I simply check "Ok, Understood ~ don't remind me anymore!"

1GB should be PLENTY of free space to not receive the message every 20 minutes or so.


Grrr..


Message was edited by: Goetia (re:typo)

Oct 27, 2011 7:03 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I, too, just started having this issue yesterday. My iPhone 4 shows 1.3GB free but I'm getting this Storage almost full message very frequently.


Interesting that it didn't show up for a week after the iOS 5 upgrade. I haven't added anything to the phone in at least 3 days since I've been out of town.


When I get home I plan on syncing and doing a full restore. I hope that will fix this.

Oct 28, 2011 10:59 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

I'm wondering if this will ever be sorted? Don't have the problem on my 4s only seem to be getting it on my 4 after the iOS5 update. Now have over 2gb free still get the msg.


Can't find anywhere online informing me how to resolve this issue, i presume a complete factory reset then re-install each app 1 at 1 time should work but that's going to take hours. NOT happy with Apple for not informing its users that this could be a problem with the iOS5 update.


Is it possible to go back to the old iOS4 as I'd rather have a working iPhone that a phone which periodically brings up the pop-up box of low storage?

Oct 28, 2011 11:25 AM in response to TheOnlyTazman

My issues cleared up on it's own....

Now one thing I did do however was download a few more apps. I figured, if I am getting this message anyway, why not download some new stuff to fill up the extra space I had made, right?


It may have been coincidence that my issue resolved itself after I added a few new apps - but go pick out something free on the store and see if it helps you too.


Worth a shot.

Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4

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