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free space off after upgrading to iOS 8.3

I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 8.3 and now the free space reported by iTunes 12.1.1 is wrong. If I do a hard reset of my iPhone, it actually displays the correct value briefly before changing to the wrong one.

Here's what the values are, first is the first displayed "right" one and second is the updated "wrong" one:

Audio: 56.4, 314.9 MB (41 songs)

Photos: 455.4 MB, 355.4 MB (754 photos)

Apps: 17.62 GB, 16.10 GB (370 apps)

Docs & Data: 1.67 GB, 1.19 GB

Other: 1.99 GB, 1.77 GB

Free: 4.96 GB, 7.05 GB

Is anyone seeing this discrepency with iTunes for Windows after upgrading to iOS 8.3?

iPhone 5s, iOS 8.3, AT&T 32 GB

Posted on Apr 8, 2015 12:33 PM

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Morac Author

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Posted on Apr 8, 2015 7:01 PM

Same thing happened on my iPad Air 2. iTunes Free space suddenly jumped up 4 GB and all the other data values shrunk to various degrees.

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gd420mj

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Jul 10, 2015 4:52 AM in response to gd420mj

Apparently I missed the Recently deleted Album on my phone. I cleared that, and that seemed to clear up free space and photo space. Appears to report correctly now,

Aug 2, 2015 7:45 AM in response to grambo1980

I am having the exact same problem! I upgraded to the new iOS this week with the new awful iTunes. I used to have 40 gigs free on my phone and now I have 4 gigs free. I removed ALL my photos and removed apps. Nothing seemed to matter. It constantly tells me my storage is full, when I know it cannot be. The iOS itself only takes 4 gigs and I have a 64 gig phone. Where is all that free storage going? Nothing I do is helping. I am on an iPhone 5S. This almost feels intentional on the part of Apple so we buy their new phones in the Fall. If they turn our current ones into bricks, we have to buy new ones. I was going to reset my phone to factory settings and build it back again, but I don't think that will help. 😠 And by the way, iOS 8.3 didn't do this to me. iOS 8.4 DID. I downloaded 8.4 this week and it destroyed my phone.

free space off after upgrading to iOS 8.3