New iPhone Storage almost full

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New iPhone Storage almost full

Hello, I just got the iPhone 13 Pro 128GB, I am upgrading from the iPhone 11 Pro 256GB. I downgraded the amount of storage because I was only using about 20 GB on my iPhone 11 Pro anyway, so why spend more money? Well, when I set up my new phone, I checked the storage and it is saying I am using 97.4 GB of storage when I clearly am not!! What is happening, I just got this phone today, there is no way I am using that much! I attached two screenshots, top is from my iPhone 11 Pro, bottom is from my iPhone 13 Pro.

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 6:55 PM

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Chris0107

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Oct 12, 2021 7:02 PM in response to JudeGuzlan

Only you will know the history here..

but my GUESS is that at some point on your iPhone 11 (or some previous phone??), you were using iCloud for Messages and iCloud Photos.

Maybe you turned these things off and then deleted all that content from your iPhone 11?

Then when setting up your new iPhone 13, you likely opted to turn on iCloud Photos, turn on iCloud for Messages.. at which time the content from iCloud was downloaded to your iPhone?

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Chris0107

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Oct 12, 2021 7:09 PM in response to JudeGuzlan

I believe you would go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud and turn off the switch for Messages and go into Photos and turn off the switch for iCloud Photos, probably also My Photo Stream

Once those switches are all off, you still would have to delete all the content that was downloaded from iCloud.

I don't know if that content in iCloud is stuff you want to keep, but if I'm right and you start deleting that content from your phone while those switches are turned on, you will also be deleting that content from iCloud..

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