Storage data different on iPhone and iTunes

I don't know how you figured this out, but this worked!

I had already done a factory reset on my iPhone 6s twice, and at first it would work, but eventually creep up again with the same problem.

But now it makes sense. I do believe it has something to do on how it uses temporary cache storage on movies that you "stream" from your iCloud. Or anything you stream from the cloud for that matter. That is the only behavior that I noticed on the differences between my factory resets.

I signed out of iTunes, shut down my iPad 2, powered it back up, signed back in, and now I have even 0 space available--before it was a few hundred mb. I'm "missing" about 5 gigs of space. I'm glad this worked for others--but wish it had worked for me too! I rarely use my iPad anymore because it's impossible. No matter how many apps I delete, it's way too slow. 😟

Battery Doctor

App freed up 400Mb of space which was great ... thanks 🙂

I found a solution that you wouldn't believe. Go to settings/videos/ and turn off the feature that shows all of your videos if you have purchased movies tv shows ect from iTunes. go to the video app it should show "no content" close the app and make sure all of your apps are closed also give it a few seconds and then go look at you strange i just freed up about 3 gb of space. when you play the movies on your device it stores the added up space form the movie in the matrix and you can't find it and the phone or device doesn't pick it up for some reason. see if that helps

Thank you!! It actually worked!

I use my iCloud music library a lot. I went from 1.0 GB free space to 4.2 GB. iTunes is now off by only 0.2

Hi! I have the same problem. In my iTunes, I have about 17GB free storage/ space but in my phone it just has 544MB . After doing the Battery Doctor tip and renting a movie on iTunes, my storage became 1.8GB free. But that's still a huge difference from my 17GB free storage on iTunes.

Another problem I also encounter is when I transfer photos from my iPhone 6sPLus to my iPhoto on my macbook, I always click on "delete photos from iPhone" but it still doesnt delete. I have to delete the images manually and then it still doesnt free up a lot of space.

Would appreciate any other tips that I can follow.

Thank you.

The easiest way to manage photos is to install Google Drive (they give you 15gb of free cloud storage) or MEGA (they give you 50gb of free cloud storage) and just every once in a while upload everything to you Google or MEGA drive and then just delete everything off your device.

You can then download the files from the cloud onto your computer. And if you still want to view them on your iOS device, you can use the apps to view them from the cloud.

(Also make sure you are actually using Google Drive and not Google Photos, they compress/ruin your photos and there is no way to organize them in their Photos app. But Drive has no problems.)

Wonderful help!!!!Thanks

I signed out of iTunes on my phone, waited five minutes, and then signed back in. Voila! I now have over 7GB of storage, whereas I had less than 200MB before doing this. Thank you!!!

Nice to see that Apple is treating its customers like the FBI and chose to leave us to figure this out on our own...

My iTunes and iPhone differed by 4GB

Things I did to recover 3GB back:

Backup iPhone to iMac (Just in case...)

Sync photos with Photo app

Signed out of iCloud. Did not save anything locally.

Signed out of iTunes

Signed out of Apple Store

Signed out of Home Sharing

Turn off My Photo Stream

Turn off iCloud PhotoSharing

Turn off iMessage

Turn off iCloud Music Library

Turn off Show Apple Music

Delete photos with Image Capture (iMac application located in Utilities folder)

Delete all iMessage Threads

Deleted iPhoto trash

Delete all Local Music

Synced iTunes music and selected "automatically fill free space with songs."

Synced again but this time with 'sync music' unchecked.

Somehow there were 3 songs left on my iPhone's music library, so I manually deleted them from iPhone,again...

Turned iPhone off and back on and reversed the process.

At this point iTunes and my iPhone only differ by about 300MB

By the time I turned everything (iCloud, iTunes, Apple Store ) back on the Difference is back to 1GB.

Net gain 3GB. I'll take it!

I have not tried to wipe and restore

I have not tried to use the App mentioned earlier.

-L

^This fixed my problem. It did take more than 10mins afterwards though before the phone realised there was free space. Dodgy as all heck.

The ONLY reason I have a 16GB is because my nephew won this in TimeZone and I did him a favour and bought it after seriously humming and harring about how absolutely snot boxed a 16GB iphone would be (coming from a 4s 64GB which has been secerely crippled by apple). Even a 6Plus! of all things. And Apple would not let me upgrade the unboxed snot box for more money. Would never buy a 16GB otherwise unless it were android with UPGRADEable storage.

16GB LOL! wtaf

Thanks!!!

PHEW! This worked for me. Wowowow. My free storage always slowly diminishes until the phone is totally useless. I usually have to restore my phone every 4 months or so. But this works without having to restore!!! What a relief!!

Tnank you , dpgander

It works! I plugged into iTunes and selected the check box "Automatically fill free space with songs" (luckily I have enough songs too).

I did synchronization 3-4 times (iTunes uploaded some new songs each time).

After that storage data on iPhone and iTunes became almost equal.

I tried this battery doctor but didn't see the "junk tab" option.