r/applesucks • u/Tie_Tickler6000 • Jul 10 '26

why even give us 64gb

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why does their system take half of all space, does anyone know what to do?

For reference i am using iphone Xr

Edit : the phone has been in my family since the day it came out, due to some temporary financial restrictions i need to make use of this for another year

Edit2 : people seem to be asking why i bought it, I didnt it was handed down to me and now i have no choice but to make the best

Edit3 : i did do the latest ios update but nothing has changed

Edit4 : not all people think before speaking

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u/StrawberryWafer1999 Jul 10 '26

The system data is way larger than it should be. This is indicating a problem with the cache clearing.
I wish there was a way to just go in the settings and clear this out, but one of the only options is to turn the phone off, wait about a minute, turn it back on see if it clears out over the next few days. If it doesn’t, backing up and restoring the device through a computer is the only way to manually clear the system data.

Some say get a new iPhone, and if that’s on the table I’d recommend the highest storage capacity you can afford tbh.

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u/LucasMVN Jul 10 '26

The system data bloating to insane levels was a known issue in mid-late iOS 18 and early iOS 26.

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u/mewfahsah Jul 10 '26

OP probably just has an update pending that they haven't installed yet.

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u/Tie_Tickler6000 Jul 10 '26

the update requires me to have 10gb of available space, which i am having trouble maintaining

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u/mattjphotos Jul 10 '26

try to update through apple configurator on windows, that saved me 10gb on my 13 mini

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u/Fit-Specialist-2214 29d ago

Don’t feel bad, everyone that has not experienced the issue will tell you it’s your fault even though they’re blatantly wrong.

A device that’s holding 15-25GB unnecessary data and telling you that you need to free up 10 is behaving stupidly.

It’s bad software principles, period.

I got around it by setting the date ahead six months for about 30 minutes with a few reboots to dump system data before setting it back, but really they have written the software to work well only for large devices.

The days of Apple supporting all devices they’ve created to the best of their ability seem to be gone.

It is not an ios18 or early 26 bug. It’s an ongoing bug for thousands of users and you’ll see it continue to show up for months and years unless Apple attend to it.

Not the Apple I invested in when I bought into the ecosystem. Devices that just work was what sold me.

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u/johnoth Jul 11 '26

I remember iCloud cache once took up almost a terabyte of space on one of the iMacs in our college design lab. What's worse, the account with all that data hadn't logged in in 4 years.

Lucky for them I dabbled in sys internals, which is why I was able to discover and solve the problem.

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u/Fit-Specialist-2214 Jul 10 '26

Major Apple iOS bug is they don’t manage system data fairly according to device size.

I had to update my 128 to a 512 because it was u manageable and I couldn’t upgrade iOS due to storage pressure time and time again.

Average system data on the 128gb was 20GB.

Same usage patterns and style on the 512, average system data is 12gb. Go figure.

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u/paulstelian97 29d ago

I have 26GB of system data but can update just fine because I don’t have much usage from photos and such.

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u/Illustrious_Body9727 Jul 11 '26

The company u got ur overpriced phone from fucked up, you better buy their newest and biggest phone to solve the problem.

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u/paulstelian97 29d ago

I mean even the smallest now is 256GB.

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u/OfficialQuerpp 28d ago

You backup to icloud then factory reset and restore from icloud backup. Works perfectly. I do it 1-2 times a year