15.4's Storage Issues erased all my photos

[blahbrah]

So after updating to 15.4 I had a good day yesterday where everything seemed to work until I kept getting "storage full" notifications. I went into settings and erased a ton of podcasts (12GB worth) to make space. Eventually the phone was totally unable to even scroll so I had to restart. Every restart had something broken (no cellular service, or images missing) and eventually I got almost everything working. It finally works at the bare minimum and all my photos are gone.

Updaters beware who have smaller sized storage phones.

 

[Samdh90]

It sounds like you had a bad update, or something became corrupt. Do you either use icloud photos, or have a good backup of all of your photos? I would probably restore the phone back to new with a computer. If you do, I would not use a backup as that could bring the issue back. That is definitely interesting, never had that happen after any update.

 

[w5jck]

I installed iOS 15.4 on my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPadOS 15.4 on my iPad Air 2020 and iPad mini 5 without encountering this issue. I agree it sounds like your update went bad somehow.

 

[Schtibbie]

So after updating to 15.4 I had a good day yesterday where everything seemed to work until I kept getting "storage full" notifications. I went into settings and erased a ton of podcasts (12GB worth) to make space. Eventually the phone was totally unable to even scroll so I had to restart. Every restart had something broken (no cellular service, or images missing) and eventually I got almost everything working. It finally works at the bare minimum and all my photos are gone.

Updaters beware who have smaller sized storage phones.

Same problem nuked my phone today. It has been escalated to Apple engineering after I spent half hour on the phone today with Apple Support. It is a bug. They are calling me back on Monday and meantime advised to nuke and restore from iCloud.