High amount of other storage on 26.2

[FNH15]

My other storage on 26.2 has slowly been ballooning ever since it was released. Has anyone else encountered this? Tried updating via my Mac to no avail.

I have a 512 GB iPhone 14 Pro, and nearly all my space is now consumed by other. I usually have around 200GB free.

Is there any way to force iOS to purge the system cache? Restoring is really not an option.

 

[Diopter]

There's another discussion about this issue over here, where the most recent posts seem to be narrowing down the cause to something to do with the system icon cache files:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/system-data-overflow-bug-storage-full-with-170gb-of-undeletable-data.2473648/

Here's hoping this is a bug that gets fixed soon, because I've seen a few people reporting this issue after upgrading to iOS 26.

 

[FNH15]

edit: I spoke too soon. System Data now at 40GB. I have different home screens set up for different Focus modes, including icon tinting at night. No issues on iOS 18...

Ended up restoring. Not pleased but I had no other choice. System is now sitting at 20GB of other.
Will see how it goes...