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Am I the only one that finds this absurd? (lemmy.yachts)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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Is there anything I can do about this extremely vague block of data that’s taking up 30% of my phone’s storage? Mind you, this isn’t the operating system itself, as that’s listed as its own category.

EDIT: I tried (a) backing up to my computer, factory resetting, then restoring from backup and (b) setting the date years in the future. Neither worked, in fact (a) actually increased my system data to 34 GB! What DID end up working was updating my iOS from 18 to 26, which I had to do from my computer via iTunes since my phone was full. Apparently major system updates reset system data

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

That was my hope on my old MacBook Pro, too, with 140 out of 256GB of disk space taken by “Other storage” rendering it almost unusable. It never really shrunk it when it should have, had to hard reset everything. Really let down by this closed down automatic shit… Time Machine and backups work well, but this storage piling is a real issue on Apple products.

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