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Apple Music using 20GB storage on iPhone 15 despite no downloaded songs

ape music is taking up 20gb on

my iphone

i don’t have a single song downloaded

i tried deleting the app, disabling icloud sync, restarting iphone, signing out of icloud but the cache remains in place.


iphone 15, ios 27 (had the same issue with ios 26)


2 replies

Apple Music is holding a hidden streaming cache that iOS refuses to clear until your device approaches maximum capacity. 



thanks for you’re reply

my storage has been at full capacity for months. some apps won’t even launch. not sure if there’s a different sequence to the whole delete->restart->reinstall dance that i haven’t tried.