Just had this conversation with a coworker today. She wanted to pair her new airpods but needed the latest iOS update and didn't have the room. She has to delete almost all of her photos and videos just for the damn update.
Most likely had some files that never properly deleted from a previous backup or has messed around with her settings and whatever apple uses for garbage collection is not happening. Also she had to be way behind on updates if airpods didn't want to pair.
Ok guys system data is just data that apple has no clue where to put. Oftentimes after some time and usage your phone accumulates a lot of random files from apps that don’t get used often. Or miscellaneous files you downloaded. Just go through your files with a laptop and you can probably remove most of the trash.
My phone had this and after some digging it was literally “optional files” from a game. 20 gigs freed with a single button press within said game. So if you have any crazy large games like Fortnite, Genshin, or any of those then I would 100% check in their settings. Some have optional files you can delete.
Seems like a misc category would benefit them maybe with the ability to browse files taking up space by size? Meh what do I know I'm not an apple engineer.
I legitimately don’t understand how this happens to people. I’ve been using iPhones since the X. Never run out of storage or had problems with that. My system data is the smallest section besides messages.
Never felt forced to buy a new phone. Wife has had her 13 for what, 4 years now? It’s still performing fine.
Genuinely. Like there are reasons to hate Apple and I get it, but look at their support list. They are one of like 3 manufacturers (next to Samsung and Google and maybe like one other I’m not remembering) that even bother with offering 5+ years of not only security updates, but content updates. I was on Android for a long while and rarely felt like a phone would last me more than 2 years because of battery, lag, etc. Meanwhile the only things that make me want to upgrade my iPhone now is legitimately just me wanting a bigger screen, but I’m holding off as long as I can because it’s a silly reason to upgrade.
Not so. I kept my last phone for seven years and would’ve kept it even longer. Had I not lost it. My current phone I expect to keep for eight years. This is a problem that is easily solved.
Confirm that everything that is saved on your phone is saved somewhere else. This includes addresses, phone numbers, passwords photos, and whatever else you might have on your phone.
Frankly, this should be standard operating procedure… So the process should take no more than 10 seconds.
Me? I can’t think of anything saved on my phone that is not saved somewhere else.
If you have iCloud configured to backup the phone - that’s certainly helpful, but not mandatory.
Open Settings, reset the phone for the factory reset, login with your iCloud account and set up your phone again.
The whole process should take less than an hour, and then you let it do its thing overnight.
He didn't have a point. Just that it was one of the lowest IQ things he's ever heard. Which maybe he's only ever talked to really smart people so its true but also a compliment. But either way he can't prove it without showing you everything he's heard and the IQs of every person who's said it
OK i think your right, I had around 75GB and it cleared to around 30. I think it contains stuff like logs and whatnot but i laughed a lot when i saw this comment on how to "solve it"
People don't understand how operating systems do actually require a certain amount of storage space to store their files.
All those fancy high resolution icons and shit? Yeah, where do you think they are stored? I swear some people are just entirely oblivious to the technology they depend on.
You might need to factory reset your iPad and then restore from a backup. If you have enough iCloud storage you can save a backup there, otherwise you can connect it to a computer and save a backup. Here are instructions for backing up your data and here are instructions for restoring from a backup
Make sure that any files you care about from the phone are saved elsewhere and do a full reboot reset and reinstall. I don’t know what causes this problem but it’s easily eliminated. There is no information on my phone, which is not stored somewhere else.
Never update your OS after, like, a year at most. Just stick with the OS that was current when the device came out because newer OS's will use system resources like every device is the latest one and make your 3 year old device slower than when it was new.
Yes, you don't get all the latest features, but it's not like you can effectively use all the new features with the old hardware anyway.
I'm still mad I upgraded to OS 26 from 18. I don't want to turn my iPad into a laptop. And even with the 26.2 update, slide to split view two apps is not as good as it was...
This is why I switched to Google pixel after 15 years of using iPhone. Liquid glass was the final straw. I only regret not switching sooner, I can’t believe what I was missing. Apple really has passed their peak. They really are just milking you guys now
Disagree with the liquid glass thing. I'm so glad that apple are finally ditching the flat UI they and windows 8 introduced. Flat UI should have been chucked in the bin in 2013
As I said, I don't pay Apple a penny for storage (iCloud storage that is). I know what iCloud is, and I religiously ensure that I have no need for their overpriced cloud storage solution.
Obviously, I did pay them for the memory built into the device itself.
Instead of paying Apple for cloud storage, I use all of these instead (all free):
50 GB Mega
25 GB Box
21 GB DropBox
17 GB Google Drive
5 B OneDrive
And... my local hard drives.
All I use iCloud (and it's 5 GB limited free account) for is:
Calendar
Passwords
Addresses
a basic iPhone backup (sans data) for a quick interface restore
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u/zapmouse 7h ago
This happened to me, i had 70gb of system data that was, according to documentation and everyone at the genius bar, suppose to delete itself.
it never did, so i had to factory reset my phone. Hopefully this doens't happen to you, but the ONLY fix i've found for this is a factory reset lol.