Very high storage

[anvtoh]

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?

[Amay]

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. 🙂

[anvtoh]

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?

[Amay]

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. 🙂

[anvtoh]

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.

[Amay]

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. 🙂