My iPhone 7+ is reporting full storage - when I explore further and look in manager storage - the very bottom item called "System", is consuming all available storage, right now it is 13.54GB. In this state Mail will not sync, apps will not update and new apps cannot be installed.
It has done this numerous times, and seems to come and go (since the first beta release).
Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks!
This is the same problem to all of us. Storage problem and battery capacity vs system performance. apple is playing with their old clients to force them buying new and new phones.
staying with apple seems like staying in prison. Only solution to quit apple.
This is the same problem to all of us. Storage problem and battery capacity vs system performance. apple is playing with their old clients to force them buying new and new phones.
staying with apple seems like staying in prison. Only solution to stop using iPhone and migrate to others.
Still an issue even on the new iPhone 13. Just got the phone and it says there is 61.57GB of system storage. Hardly have any space left.
Hi everyone,
I noticed this problem occur for me for the first time when I turned off the setting to optimise the photos on my phone for storage space. My theory is that this "System Data" is actually the photos being downloaded off iCloud and it is attempting to save them back into the camera roll, but there isn't enough space, so it never actually registers as a "Photos" in the little gauge at the top...
I'd recommend trying to turn that setting back on, if it is off at this point, and see if it helps.
In my case it is iPhone 13 pro ios 15.3 and I have systems data grown to 64 GB , loging out of I cloud , deleting history and websites settings in safari as deleting all icloud files did not help either My iphon‘s storage is reduced by half it is a scandal , re-booting doesn‘t help either, I had no iCloud-Photos bigger then 3-5GB deleted Icloud-photos did not help either and all tricks read on internet like mac-magazine and co are waste of time , do I get money back or Apple please sent me the bigger iPhone 13 pro with 256 GB so I can use 100 GB I payed for. thank you.
Hi there, I am currently using an iPhone 7 and it is giving my problems with storage as when I try to download something it tells me that my storage is full but when I Check my storage, I still have a few gigs of space
I have the same problem going on. The folder "System storage" and not "IOS" is consuming roughly 25GB and "growing". Esp when i use my phone extensively. It's a Iphone 7+ with 128GB of storage. The phone basicly has bin used since 2018 till today without any re-install or so. Once in a while i perform a backup, grab all the photo's and personal stuff off and i free space with this.
Not even a few days ago i managed to clear up quite some old video's files blabla, the free space got back to a healthy 30GB again. Now last morning that remaining free space was or is almost at it's limit. *** is going on? It started to happen when i more and more frequently update IOS to the latest version. It seems like most of these packages are more designed or suited for a newer generation of phones rather then the old ones.
When i reboot the phone, there is a difference in space consumed by that folder. First reboot, 18GB. Second reboot, 16GB. So upon a few reboots it does seem to clear it out. But we as users should be able to perform maintaince and not kick our own personal belongings such as media in order to free space because Apple is using some sort of technique to organise primarily cache and we cant clear it.
Its just stupid to have a phone consume over 9GB for IOS and a additional 25GB for "Cache" or "logs" or such. Clearing safari and such is'nt going to remove these large chunks of data consumed by "system storage". It's just stupid. I've rebooted it 3 times now, the size of that folder is within 8GB now. Most websites that provide advise on clearing storage all come to the same story. Apple needs to provide us a way to clear the cache which obviously consumes the most part of it.
I have a Iwatch as well with that, a 4GB model that is unable to update itself because the package is larger then there is on free storage. I'm 99% confident that such update packages are being downloaded and temporary being stored in that System folder. Its consuming and eating space. In order to update my iwatch i have to go through hoops which involve resetting and all that in order to get a package on that Iwatch.
i brought this to apples attention via online chat. I have a 64gb IPhoneX and conveniently with every new update apple puts out and immediately following that update, my phone suddenly spikes in storage use. I can’t even take a picture with my phone and if it allows me to even use the camera, it’s moves at like 3 fps. I can’t download the new update because it tells me it requires more storage…..this issue bothers me because it seems to be done by apple, just to force their customers into updating their phones. I have screenshots showing how data and storage is being spread evenly o we apps across the board that shouldn’t be taking that much storage at all. Not even close. It’s ridiculous and I’m done after this phone with this company.
The system data has been full on my 6s for over a year now. Any way to fix this issue?
I had this issue after upgrading to an iPhone 14 Pro from an iPhone 12 Pro using iOS 16.0.2. I tried several restores from various backups. Always ended up wtith system data of over 100GB within 24 hours of a restore. Powering the phone off and on would wipe the system data but it would then slowly grow back to +100GB within 24 hours. FIX: As mentioned on here by someone else: Logout of icloud on your phone. Power the phone off and on again. This has fixed the issue for me.
This will help you.. ---> http://howhide.com/system-storage-full
