An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning unit that collects a waste toner that remains on the image carrier, a toner container that stores the waste toner collected by the cleaning unit, a determination unit that determines whether the waste toner stored in the toner container reaches a predetermined storage level that is lower than a maximum storage level of the toner container, and a control unit that executes a control of suppressing generation of the waste toner when the determination unit determines that the waste toner has reached the predetermined storage level.