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Why is Apple Podcasts app consuming half the available storage on my phone?

Posted on Jan 10, 2023 12:38 AM

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Jan 11, 2023 4:56 PM in response to Dare510

Seems to be a long running bug on iOS and iPadOS. Looking at Storage report under Settings, the Podcast app is using 10.25GB of ‘Documents & Data’. However, ,’All episodes’ report 487MB. Looks like this App does not manage its storage correctly. Can only conclude that Apple is neglecting this product. Who is the product manager?

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