topic Re: Very high storage in iOS (iPhone, iPad)

Very high storage

anvtoh — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:56:23 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Canada

Device

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Operating System

iOS 17.5.1

My Question or Issue

I don't understand how the storage of Spotify is being calculated. It says that Spotify is using 29.45 GB and when I click on Spotify in my settings, it says my documents & data is using 58.44 GB, which is way too much and very confusing.

I have about 3.4k downloaded songs. I'm not even able to update my phone due to Spotify using so much storage and I'm very confused to which data storage should I refer myself to? How is everything calculated?

Re: Very high storage

Amay — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:04:20 GMT

Hey @anvtoh, welcome to the Spotify Community! 🎵

Could you please share a screenshot of the following: Spotify -> settings -> storage? This will help determine if the storage taken is actually from the cache and not just the offline downloads.

To save storage you can switch to a lower song quality as well, check out this article for more info.

Keep me posted. 🙂

Re: Very high storage

anvtoh — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:22:58 GMT

Here's the screenshot of what's been asked.

This still does not explain why it says Spotify is taking up to almost 60 GBs in my phone, according to my iPhone Storage. Is there a leak somewhere?

Re: Very high storage

Amay — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:14:18 GMT

Thanks for the screenshot, @anvtoh.

Could you please try a clean install of the Spotify app? This tends to fix most such issues easily.

Please check How to perform a clean-install for more.

Note that this will remove your offline downloads, so you will have to download the content again.

Let me know how it goes. 🙂

Re: Very high storage

anvtoh — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:13:29 GMT

I just finished the reinstall and redownloading all of my offline songs with normal quality and I am now at 8 GB. Documents & data seems to be reflecting also, which is good.

I'd like to know how big is very high quality downloaded music.

Re: Very high storage

Amay — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:43:13 GMT

Glad that it worked, @anvtoh

For more info about the different audio quality options, you can refer to this support article or this community post.

If you need help with anything else, don’t hesitate to reach out. 🙂

Spotify_storage & battery iPhone

galex74 — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:00:13 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

(iPhone 11)

Operating System

(iOS 17)

My Question or Issue

Hello!

Last few weeks I notice that Spotify is taking too much of the storage I have on my iPhone 11. Due to that issue I can not update iOS for example. Latest I saw is that Spotify takes around 14GB of the storage. Yes, I do have long play lists but so do my parents, yet they don't have the same issue.

At the same time, last days I noticed that Spotify drains the battery through background activity.

In both of the examples it feels as if I am doing smth wrong but don't get what. Thanks for all ideas and clues to help!

Goran