Unable to delete large attachments from the iPhone Storage settings

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Unable to delete large attachments from the iPhone Storage settings

I cannot delete large attachments anywhere in the settings, either under iPhone Storage/Review Large Attachments, nor from iPhone Storage/Messages/Review Large Attachments. I have even deleted message stings containing large attachments, which does not appear to solve the problem.

The only solution I have found is to restart phone, which does not work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Because of the large iOS updates, I constantly have to delete stuff from phone to make it update.

I am using an iPhone 12, on iOS version 18.1.1

I have attempted to delete these attachments several times, including rebooting phone, with no success:

iPhone 12, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 28, 2024 12:17 PM

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Feste Ainoriba

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Jan 11, 2025 11:49 AM in response to SravanKrA

Your solution is not freeing up mapped storage. I’ve deleted all photos attached to messages just as you have shown. The problem is that the memory storage that those photos were using, shown in both the memory picture bar and the remove large attachments dialogue option doesn’t show any changes in available (non-encumbered ) memory. Even with a iPhone restart. The message memory report still shows the same amount of memory assigned to “large attachments “ before and after deleting all of those attachments

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catwomannj Author

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Dec 29, 2024 05:57 AM in response to SravanKrA

Thank you for the “visual” clarification, but that is exactly what i have been doing.

No problem selecting the image and then the trash can. The Problem is they do get removed from memory; when I close that screen and reopen, all the images still remain. A couple threads suggested rebooting phone to “clear” the memory, but the images still reappear in that list after rebooting.

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