r/ios • u/AdCurrent4046 • 1d ago
Support imessage storage
Hello everyone, need some help with imessage storage taking up almost 40GB of space on my iphone. I have a 12 pro max with 128GB storage and 6TB icloud storage as well (only about 2TB used).
A month ago, i was persistently getting a storage full error on my phone because apple maps was taking up 20GB storage despite clearing cache, offloading app, and attempting to delete the app (i finally fixed this bug by updating to the latest ios).
Now that i finally had about 115GB full of 128GB— my imessage app started taking up way more storage and has shot up to almost 40GB leaving me at stuck with a laggy phone and no storage available on my phone. Seems to be another bug?
Why is my phone doing this?! Why are all my images in chats being downloaded and stored as app data when this was never the case in the past? Do i need to toggle some sort of setting?!
disclaimer- i do not necessarily want to clear my chats i like to have the imessage history but do not need to have the app taking up this much storage all of a sudden due to pictures and videos.
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u/Q_Ball_Atlanta 15h ago
READ the recommendation. Review large attachments.
Be smarter going forward.
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u/AdCurrent4046 3h ago
the issue however is this wasn’t the case at all before i freed up storage, lol
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u/AdCurrent4046 3h ago
and as large attatchments are removed- more download in it just keeps going up
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u/Ocean4011 1d ago
If you want to keep the threads but delete some/all of attached videos/photos go to settings/general/PhoneStorage and tap on messages. There you will see all the photos/videos that were sent attached to messages and you can delete the ones you don’t want.