iPhone iOS storage warnings but have 30GB free?

[dictoresno]

I keep getting storage warnings about having my full resolution pics saved on my phone. I have a 256 GB iPhone 7. The current situation is as follows: 90 GB for movies, 81 GB music, 28 GB photos and then small amounts for apps and data. Phone and iTunes say I have 28 GB of space left. I currently use iCloud photos, pay for the 50 GB plan, and have it set to store in both iCloud and my phone. So yea I could easily optimize but don’t want to.

My main question is, with nearly 30 GB left, why am I constantly getting storage warnings. Wouldn’t that make more sense to kick in at 5 GB or so?

 

[cruisin]

Maybe the iCloud storage is full and not the phone? What does Settings > iCloud say for free space? You can also reboot the phone and see if the message goes away.

 

[dictoresno]

Plenty of reboots recently. Message only pops up maybe once or twice every few weeks. And I have 20 or so GB left out of 50 in iCloud.

 

[simonmet]

I was getting the warnings when my 256 GB 7 Plus was practically empty and my iCloud only 5% full. It suggested I “Optimise Photos” saving less than 100 MB, and “Offload Unused Apps”, saving a couple of GB when I had 200 GB free on my phone.

Basically the suggestions should be ignored until you need space.

 

[dictoresno]

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe there’s a threshold of % is storage used and it’s built into iOS to suggest/upsell to use iCloud.

 

[simonmet]

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe there’s a threshold of % is storage used and it’s built into iOS to suggest/upsell to use iCloud.

That appears not to be the case (a threshold). It’s kind of advertising the service I guess.

 

[dictoresno]

That appears not to be the case. It seems to offer suggestions regardless.

Never had this issue on this phone until iOS 11 or at least in the past few months. I’ve had the same amount of free storage for a long time and only recently got these prompts.