Podcast Storage Mystery

I would love an answer to this too. I have 1.2 gigs worth of podcasts on my phone and 7.6 Gigs...(YES 7.6!) in Documents & Data. C'mon Apple, your taking a quarter of my phone's memory for one buggy app.

I'm not surprised this is still a problem. Mine is at 5.5 gigs now with no signs of stopping and it's annoying as ****.

I can't believe the only solution is to delete all subs and format your phone and then hope your restore doesn't bring back the problem. It's terrible that they removed file access to the device because at least before you could go in manually to delete stuff.

cpk4: thanks for the suggestion. I tried this approach - I deliberately tried to overload my iPhone with music. It warned me that this wouldn't work, and I ignored the warning. There were a whole bunch of mid-sync restarts of the iPhone. And, this hasn't ended well. iTunes is now telling me my 64GB iPhone has either 5GB free, or is 5GB over capacity - and my iPhone is telling me that I have 30GB free. So iTunes thinks all the music is still there, but my iPhone now thinks there's only 2GB of music (rather than 30GB or so). Every further attempt to sync seems to proceed properly and takes all of ten seconds, but nothing actually changes, except that iTunes will toggle back and forth between the 5GB free / 5GB over capacity indicator. So, um, yeah. I think I'm heading for a restore from backup again.

Oh, and the Podcasts app? That's gone up from 2.8GB to 2.9GB.

So anyway, it didn't work for me, and I advise others to use this approach with caution, but it may be useful for others!

HI, cblwolf!

I guess it doesn't matter. I used version 2.4.10 (just tried the first one that showed up, with an orange battery icon). I can also see an app with an identical but green battery icon (version 7.3) in Appstore.

Yes, it's called Battery Doctor, by KS Mobile Inc (v2.4) or by Beijing Kingsoft Internet Security (v7.3).

With best regards,

Henrik Svensson

I first noticed a problem when I was taking pictures and i ran out of space. seems podcast app is bugged. under normal usage iOS should free up that space, but for some reason podcast app won't let that memory go.

This solution worked great. it's basically doing the same thing as the itunes "overfill" solution.

But its so much easier than using iTunes.

I have the same issue and my iPad is full. I have now completely emptied all my podcasts. There is nothing in the Podcast app. Yet the app is using 968 MB of storage. This is unacceptable! I would delete the app and use something else, except Apple has decided that I am not allowed to delete this app whether I use it or not.

This problem is not new. iOS has been updated and the problem remain. If Apple cannot be bothered to maintain their app, then at least let me delete it.

FIX THIS NOW APPLE!

I really would like someone give positive information on this issue. The Podcast storage on both my iPone and iPod2 is steadily creeping up; currently up to 1 G and 2.2 G. I now have less than 0.5 G left on my iPhone and have been forced to delete several apps that I valued far more than the irremovable Podcast.

See this link too

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204221

Remove built-in Apple apps from the Home screen on your iOS device with iOS 10

I was able to remove it from my home screen today. I'm very happy ;=)))

Note: Battery Doctor no longer has a ‘junk’ option either.

Same thing here:

300 MB taken by podcasts and 1.1 GB taken by the Podcast app... this is terrible. Specially if you have a 16GB iPhone.

This is obviously a bug. I hope it gets fixed on iOS 9.2.

Такая же проблема. Записи удаляются из программы, а из памяти телефона нет.

Did you ever find a solution for this?

I'm having a similar provlem with the Podcasts app not clearing its cache using up now more than a 1GB of storage on a 16GB 5s (iOS 9.1)

I can't seem to find the 7.5 version. The only one that shows up for me is the 2.4. Is it called Battery Doctor?

This is the one I used. It could well be that others work as well. Keep running the Junk function until it comes back telling you there is nothing left. It may take 10 or more times.

Are you supposed to keep running it even if it says there is nothing to clean up? It doesn't seem to do anything after a while but the podcast app is still taking all the space.

So I should keep trying it even if it says there are no files to clean?