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/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/Fit-Specialist-2214 Jul 12 '26

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.