Here’s how to reclaim 15GB of storage after iOS 27 update

With the arrival of iOS 27, Apple was hoping to make up a lot of ground in the AI space, but the new and improved Apple Intelligence comes with a huge caveat. Users who have already updated their iPhones to iOS 27 report that Apple Intelligence took around 15GB of internal storage.

The exact amount of storage allocation varies from phone to phone – some see 16GB of their storage inaccessible after the update, others report as low as 9GB. Perhaps the more frustrating part is that Apple Intelligence takes up your storage even when you can’t use it in your region, like EU iPhone owners,…