I was looking up why my iPhone storage was full, and the first app to appear was Music with 23 Gb, even tho I have downloaded no music. I tried uninstalling it but to no avail. Is there some way to make it take less space?
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iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 17
Hi Paul-Hus,
As your iPhone is not calculating the storage correctly restart your iPhone Restart your iPhone so it will recalculate it and check again.
If it continues, as the Music app updates with the iOS, make sure you are up to date Update iOS on iPhone.
The next step, if it still shows storage, would be to delete the app and restore it by following Delete built-in Apple apps from your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
If nothing above worked, your next step will be to contact Apple for support as you've done all you can on your end. Get Support
Take care.
This happened to me as well after I had subscribed to Apple Music and then downloaded a lot of songs. I then cancelled Apple music - the songs remain listed in Apple music's storage and in other content, but there was no way to clear, and the setting to Optimize Music to save space was no longer available. To solve, I had to sign back up to Apple music, enabled Optimize Music at the smallest size level, then re-synch my iPhone to iTunes. After a couple of attempts, my 100GB of inaccessible storage went away, and my phone back to normal, and I cancelled Apple Music again.
Same problem.
I've been looking for an alternative solution but there's no clue about why Apple Music is using a vast amount of storage space. Almost 11GB of space without any playlist downloaded, simply CACHE.
How or when can we just get rid of cache from a bunch of apps using unnecessary information?
Disable cover art and restart. Worked for me
Settings/music/animated art off
Could you please tell where to find this option? When I spoke to support for 90 minutes that wasn’t a suggestion… and obviously they couldn’t figure this out either. Thanks 😊
Is it possible to make Music app consume less space on iPhone?
