I’m starting to believe there’s a connection between the app icon redraw bug and the rapidly growing system data.
Since my system data keeps increasing quickly on iOS 26.1 (even after restoring the iPhone twice), I tried to observe when the storage usage goes up. Every time the app icon redraw bug appears — when the icons briefly turn black and then rebuild — the system data increases by about 1–1.5 GB afterwards. Is anyone else seeing this? I think this mainly affects users who have lots of apps and many folders on their home screens.
Since my system data keeps increasing quickly on iOS 26.1 (even after restoring the iPhone twice), I tried to observe when the storage usage goes up. Every time the app icon redraw bug appears — when the icons briefly turn black and then rebuild — the system data increases by about 1–1.5 GB afterwards. Is anyone else seeing this? I think this mainly affects users who have lots of apps and many folders on their home screens.