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iShater

macrumors 604
Original poster
Aug 13, 2002
7,026
470
Chicagoland
I have been having space issues on my iPad (latest gen, 32GB) and iPhone 6s. Most of the space is taken up by "System", as much as 16GB!

Looks like this is a "known" issue (https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...storage-features.2070216/page-2#post-27057210).

However, searching for an actual approach to addressing it using the interwebs seems to present only the generic "clean your iPhone" sites without dealing with the issue of System storage.

This is happening across different devices (3 actually) and might not be just iOS 12 (I only noticed it after it came out, so I don't have any info about older versions).

Any recommendations for addressing? or links to an actual site that shows steps to fix?

Thank you.
 

gahig ulo

macrumors 6502a
Nov 11, 2017
585
151
riverside california
I have been having space issues on my iPad (latest gen, 32GB) and iPhone 6s. Most of the space is taken up by "System", as much as 16GB!

Looks like this is a "known" issue (https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...storage-features.2070216/page-2#post-27057210).

However, searching for an actual approach to addressing it using the interwebs seems to present only the generic "clean your iPhone" sites without dealing with the issue of System storage.

This is happening across different devices (3 actually) and might not be just iOS 12 (I only noticed it after it came out, so I don't have any info about older versions).

Any recommendations for addressing? or links to an actual site that shows steps to fix?

Thank you.
Dont use icloud and clean install
 
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