iOS 10 has left me with no memory!

OK. At least with my iPhone I have found the solution.

(16GB 5S with 10.2, but the problems really started with upgrading to 10).

As you, I did complete recovery and was temporarily happy, to see after few hours diminishing free memory. I have seen for the first time in my life "zero memory" in my iPhone. Still if you added size of the storage taken by apps and their files in Settings/General/Disk management, my ading result was 2,6GB, which is obviously far below 16 GB. ***??? Going through support pages and forums actually gave me a hint to look for Apple applications, which I have previously deleted. The hint was, that they are actually not deleted, but hidden. I have reviewed few and finally found it! In my case, the solution was to reinstall (or unhide) the Podcast application. After I did it I saw tones of podcasts downloaded and waiting to be downloaded. It looks like "deleted" Podcast app actually tried to download podcasts whenever there was any free memory available :-). I have deleted all podcasts including links - this is important - because they are little zombies. It was difficult with one, Woodsongs videopodcast (btw great!) returning all the time. I do not know why. Finally I gave up and have changed setup of this podcast to download only one episode and remove it after viewing. Works, but there is obviously a bug in podcasts app. I hope support people read this.

I hope this can help some of you :-)

Good luck in fighting with Apple zombie bug.

I confirm, that after two days after actions I have described above I still have 9GB out of 16 free :-) and it is stable.

Deleting one of the zombie podcast was challenging, but finally successful. See other threads about deleting stubborn podcast.

This seems not to be an iOS 10 issue! I have the same problem on an iPad mini with iOS 8.4.

While writing this post disk space dropped from 134MB to 125MB !!!

As a developer I want to keep the old system as test device, therefore I could not reset it with iTunes.

None of your hints (Reset settings, deleting Podcasts(I don't use them either), switch off/on iCloud) worked for me.

Any other ideas?

[edit]

I now deleted(realy deleted them) some images in my photo album to free some space. And suddenly disk space ran out to zero!!!!!!! I use the app "Memory & Disk" to see the disk space and could watch how it went to 0 within 10 seconds!!

Hello JessG1903,

I happen to find out with a friend that our iphone got a lot of space "wasted". We used social medial apps like snapchat, facebook messenger and it's save all conversation we had since 2 years ago (it could be more for you).

The memory is wasted because it's not deleted but stock in temporaly file and cache. We used the same step as Jeremy_v show in this topic. We deleted those apps reinstall them and we gain 1 GB each on our iphone 5C. (capacity 8 GB)

If you want to figure out how much memory is waste you can type on google: facebook messenger itunes. It will give you a web page of itunes with technicall detail of the apps but the key information is how much storage the apps take to install. For me snapchat I was using 389 MB but the apps itself take 151 MB.

• Free
• Category: Photo & Video
• Updated: Dec 20, 2016
• Version: 9.45.2.0
• Size: 151 MB (this is the key information)

With this we were able to pinpoint all application that "waste" memory. It a pain to do but the result was clear.

About email we were not able to find the setting to sync only last week of email :/

Maybe someone could help us ?

hoping this will help

That didn't help for me. Started to uninstall Facebook and Instagram, but still loosing disk space.

Then cleaning one app after the other and found my "wasting" app. It was a music player with a lyrics finder called Musixmatch!

I tried to reinstall it but same thing happened. After installation it immediately filled my disk! I uninstalled it again then it stops.

So it seems, that it is not a certain app. It could be any!

If you have this problem you need to find your "wasting app", I think.

This is a bug. I don't know if apple programmers can fix this. Or they didn't know how to fix this bug.

Thanks johnmanoahs. The turn off iCloud Drive solution worked for me.

Memory and storage are different things, by the way. Memory means RAM, but storage is the thing where you store photos and documents on your phone. Try not to make this mistake. It's easy to make.