DW’s iphone 11 is not happy. She gets the message “Iphone Storage Full”, yet when I go to memory management in Settings, only half of its 64 Gb is used ~30 Gb is free…
I’ve activated iCloud for photos, I deleted many unused apps, she’s deleted a lot of her Photos, I emptied Photo’s Recently Deleted folder, cleared Safari’s cache area, rebooted several times, she’s on the latest iOS version…
I tried several help websites, but with half the memory unused, it’s just not making a lot of sense…
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(we used t have an Apple User Group here, but…)
Taking it to a Genius would be my first suggestion. My second one is what they may suggest.
Back it up and restore it to factory settings. The question after that is do you then restore it from your back up that may be corrupted, or do you rebuild everything that was on it manually? Both are time consuming. The second is also tedious.
I have an iPhone 13 and the past two weeks I’ve been receiving emails from Apple telling me my iCloud is almost full but not to worry because for only $.99/mo I can have that issue taken care of.
Perhaps this is a marketing ploy? But what do I know?
Taking it to a Genius would be my first suggestion. My second one is what they may suggest.
Aye, that’s about where I’m at as well… We have our local Verizon store closer, is another thought, the Apple store/Genius crew are ~25 miles, N or S on 101, a coin flip, altho the South store (Larkspur, CA, has easier parking…
Fresh backup, Factory reset, restore, indeed a long process… Holding off unless it’s the last chance…
Haven’t looked at it this morning, see what the day brings… An earlier episode wouldn’t let her update her apps, but I did manage that last evening… Trouble free otherwise…
I went to the 200 Gb iCloud level, needed it for the Logitech doorbell/camera Home use, it doesn’t count against the space, but needs the room to play I guess… DW is using very little of her 50 Gb space…
Other cloud storage is handy, too, Reunion, my best genealogy program, uses Dropbox, I think there’s another related to Office 365, OneDrive another space… Creative Cloud another…
Should spend some time seeing what is what… Another project…
Sadly, have done all that, what is confusing is how the memory usage for Apps, Photos, System, Other is about only 30 Gb, so half the memory of a 64 Gb iPhone 11, so lots of free space/ I’d expect various cache files to be in that ‘Other’ space, or if additional space was used, needed, that area would expand… but it’s really a pretty small part of the graphic memory bar…
DW & phone are across town now so I can’t check on the memory at the moment…
All good ideas, it’s surprising how much we gather over time, but eventually we settle in on a few favorites… I offloaded a bunch off my 11 Pro Max, but I haven’t had the tight memory issue, it’s a 256 Gb jobber… Next on for DW will also go for more memory…
I think one reason I have been receiving the “running out of iCloud space” is because I just bought a new iPad to replace my ancient one. During the process of setting it up there is a feature where you can use your iPhone to transfer all of your setting over to the iPad. I used that feature and I’m guessing that may have added to the storage issues.
I get similar messages occasionally whenever I try to sync a new movie onto my iPhone from my Mac, and then I go and check and find that there’s a significant amount of unspecified data (Documents and Data or some such thing) stored on it. A lot of cached data?
Most of the time, I unsync all my media, then I go through iPhone storage in Preferences and see if there’s anything else I can delete, e.g. I find that sometimes media (music, videos) get stored on my iPhone that the Mac Finder isn’t aware of. It’s like stuff got synced to the iPhone and then lost track of, and that stuff gets stuck there. I sometimes think it’s stuff I downloaded directly from iTunes, but I almost never download straight from iTunes, preferring to go through my Mac.
I can usually force-delete those items from the iPhone directly.
If that doesn’t work, and if I have time, I’m not averse to backing up my iPhone to my Mac and then restoring from backup. That extra stuff doesn’t seem to be included in the backup, so it doesn’t get put back.