iOS 15 - bug "iPhone Storage Almost Full"

[Cochinon]

iPhone XS Max, 64 GB. I have 37.1GB used out of 64GB and iPhone Storage Almost Full message appears in settings with a badge of "1" and if I click within Setting on the iPhone Storage almost full it does nothing.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

 

[jet lag]

Same thing.

 

[LinuxDoc]

Same here, but there are > 150GB available.

 

[chscag]

iPhone XS Max, 64 GB. I have 37.1GB used out of 64GB and iPhone Storage Almost Full message appears in settings with a badge of "1" and if I click within Setting on the iPhone Storage almost full it does nothing.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Back up your phone first to your Mac and iCloud and then do a reset.

 

[syphern]

I have this in the rc anyway to fix it apart from resetting?

 

[walterpaisley]

Funny, after I upgraded to the RC (from the previous dev seed) my iPhone reported only 1.4gb in use. 🤷🏽‍♂️

 

[syphern]

Any update on this bug? I don’t want to reset my phone.

 

[Samdh90]

Any update on this bug? I don’t want to reset my phone.

Following the main 15 RC thread, many users are having some form of storage bug. It looks like most likely, we will have to wait for the next 15 build, probably 15.1.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Weird. My 256 gig iPhone 12ProMax is now a 1 TB iPhone 13ProMax. Nice upgrade.

 

[NewYorkRanger]

Just updated to iOS 15 and was just given this "amazing" gift of a perpetual notification in Settings.

Literally have 25% free space on my phone, the badge in settings does nothing.

 

[AntonisCy]

Hope 15.0.1 is out soon to resolve this bug

 

[Caseynd]

I also have this issue, iPhone XS Max 256GB

 

[ntyravgjo]

has anyone erased all content and settings and then restored from backup? Does that clear the bug? Would rather do that than reset all contents and settings which was recommended in other forums.

 

[DinkThifferent]

Hope 15.0.1 is out soon to resolve this bug

Beta 15.1 released

 

[Gator5000e]

This is happening on iPad Air as well, mine in particular!

 

[AntonisCy]

Beta 15.1 released

Apple should release a quick 0.1 update and fix this annoying bug

 

[gtvyt]

I just got plenty of space 12 pro max. similar on the iPad

 

[NewYorkRanger]

I just got plenty of space 12 pro max. similar on the iPad

Nice to confirm this is a bug, no way you should be getting that message! What a joke by Apple...

 

[NewYorkRanger]

FYI This went away when I got my iPhone 13 pro and did my migration/restore.

 

[mel823]

FYI This went away when I got my iPhone 13 pro and did my migration/restore.

Was it an iCloud restore or a phone to phone transfer?

 

[NewYorkRanger]

Was it an iCloud restore or a phone to phone transfer?

phone to phone transfer

 

[Gator5000e]

A solution to this issue has been found by someone called cidony in the Apple support discussion forums. Simple solution. This is for windows as I do not have a Mac but I imagine thee is a similar process to get rid of the temp backup that won't delete itself.

Click on the iCloud for Windows app (mine is in the systray) and click on iCloud settings. Make sure you are logged in. Click on Storage and go to Backups. You will see the temporary backup of your prior device, eg. iPhone 12 for me, which you can then delete. Instantly frees up space in iCloud for backups.

The temp backup on my phone was 16GB and I kept getting your iCloud storage is full. So this solution solved this problem. I am surprised the upper level Apple support techs did not know of this solution.

If cidony is a member of this forum, thank you for this solution.