How to Fix Voice Memos Take Up So Much Space on iPhone

On your iPhone if you are using voice memos and it’s taking too much space on your iPhone and seeing iPhone voice memes then you can free up voice memo memory storage and get rid of voice memos taking up too much space on your iPhone.

Sometimes, on your iPhone you can expect to see voice memos taking too much space and you need to delete recordings and delete unwanted voice memos and also from recently deleted folders as well to free up internal storage space and voice memo space.

Voice Memos Take Up So Much Space on iPhone

Below methods will help you fix voice memos take up too much space and running out of internal storage space issue on iPhone.

Delete voice Memos from Recently Deleted Folders

Step 1: Open Voice Memos app on your iPhone

Step 2: Tap on Recently deleted folder

Step 3: Delete voice memos from recently deleted folder.

Once you delete recently deleted voice memos folder then your issue of voice memos taking too much space will decrease and your internal storage space will increase.

Delete or Clear Cache

Step 1: Launch settings app

Step 2: Tap on voice memos option

Step 3: Under voice memo settings -> Tap on clear deleted

Step 4: Select the clear deleted option to never or after 7 days or after 30 days as per your choice.

Now, go back to iphone storage and check whether your issue of voice memos taking too much space is reduced or not.

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Restart your iPhone

For iPhone 6, 7, 8 models

Step 1: Press and hold power button until you see slide to power off option.

Step 2: Now, slide power to right and wait for your iPhone to power off 

Step 3: Wait for couple of minutes and then press power button and turn on your iPhone.

For iPhone x, 11, 12, 13 models

Step 1: Press and hold volume down button and power button until you see slide to power off.

Step 2: Now, slide to power off and wait for your iphone to power off.

Step 3: wait for few minutes and press and hold power button until you see apple logo and wait for your iphone to turn on.

Turn off iCloud Voice Memos

If you are syncing one or two devices with same apple id and turn on sync is enabled then you may experience issue of voice memos taking too much space on your iPhone.

Step 1: Launch settings

Step 2: Tap on Apple id on top

Step 3: Tap on iCloud option and turn off voice memos option by toggle the button next to voice memos.

How to Permanently Delete Voice Memos from iPhone

To permanently delete voice memos on iPhone -> open voice memo app and go to your recording and select the recording and then tap on delete and also delta from recently deleted folder to delete voice memo permanently.

Do voice memos take up a lot of space on an iPhone?

It depends on the time duration of voice memos on your iPhone and recording and one voice memo of 1 minute can take up to 100kb to 1 MB depending up on the voice memo recording. If you are syncing voice memo from icloud then you need to make sure that you are not syncing voice memos from different devices with same apple id and turn off voice memo from different apple id.

Why does my voice memos take up so much storage?

If your voice memo is taking up too much space then you need to make sure that you delete unnecessary recording and delete them permanently from recently deleted folder as well and clear voice memo cache and turn off icloud for voice memo.

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