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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by turkalino@lemmy.yachts 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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[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 11 months ago

It was indeed out of storage but system data usage wasn’t budging. After some research, I found out there’s apparently a bug that prevents cache from being properly cleared.

See my post edit for what ended up working

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