iPhone 13 Pro Max iPhone Storage Full thanks to "System Data" Storagegate?

[treimche]

I’ve spent enough time screwing around with it. It’s up to Apple to fix this mess. I am demanding a support representative higher up the chain to get this resolved.

 

[ericwn]

I’ve spent enough time screwing around with it. It’s up to Apple to fix this mess. I am demanding a support representative higher up the chain to get this resolved.

I doubt that will happen. If the issue can be isolated to your backup, I bet they’ll recommend starting fresh.

 

[Black Magic]

I have a 256gb iPhone 13 Pro Max and couldn't even download a new app today because I was out of storage. After offloading apps, deleting some videos/photos/etc, I was able to free up around 6gb of space. Still after all of that, plus rebooting, updating, syncing to my MacBook Pro, etc, I'm still at 89gb of "other system data." When I first got this phone and transferred everything from my previous iPhone 12 Pro Max, I was almost out of storage due to something weird happening when transferring data, but it was never this bad. What do I do? You can see that I don't have a bunch of crap taking up all my jiggabytes. I'm starting to think this is a Storagegate problem created by Apple in order to force everyone into paying for more and more iCloud storage. View attachment 1929722

This issue occurs on MacOS too. Had to erase and restore iPhone and MacBook Pro to resolve this issue about a month ago.

 

[IowaLynn]

Proving that the restore reintroduced the “bug” which a clean install did not, absolves Apple.
Backing up the clean install and have multiple backups.

Proving that a restore from a clean system backup might show that the restore mechanism was at fault. But that’s not the case here.

I had to wipe my Mac when BigSur came out. Too much old crud that was causing problems and incompatible likely. Again, a clean install, backup clone were in order.

I notice that Windows now sets aside a 7GB reserved space to insure that there will be room for updates. Might be one of the few good points, and a great idea.

One thing I forgot to say, reinstalling only some apps gradually and watching + testing can help identify if an app is partially to blame.
Seems Hulu was causing some iOS users iPhones to crash.
Does a crash leave corrupt files?

 

[treimche]

Well, unfortunately some of you are right and I'm going to have to start all over from scratch. My big question is how do I know which apps will retain their data, versus which apps data will be completely wiped? I figure Mail, Messages, Notes, Reminders, Contacts, Calendar, Home, Safari, Music, will all be synced via iCloud since I use a MacBook Pro that is also synced with iCloud. Maybe I'm wrong though? I've been using iPhones and MacBooks since the old white plastic MacBooks were a thing, and since the iPhone 4, but have never had to do this before.

 

[rui no onna]

Well, unfortunately some of you are right and I'm going to have to start all over from scratch. My big question is how do I know which apps will retain their data, versus which apps data will be completely wiped? I figure Mail, Messages, Notes, Reminders, Contacts, Calendar, Home, Safari, Music, will all be synced via iCloud since I use a MacBook Pro that is also synced with iCloud. Maybe I'm wrong though? I've been using iPhones and MacBooks since the old white plastic MacBooks were a thing, and since the iPhone 4, but have never had to do this before.

Mail: Depends if you have some POP email accounts. Mine are all web-based with IMAP (Gmail and Yahoo) so those sync just fine.

Messages: I've had to enable sync manually in iCloud settings on my devices

Notes: sync enabled by default

Reminders: sync enabled by default

Contacts: sync enabled by default

Calendar: sync enabled by default

Home: sync enabled by default

Safari: sync enabled by default

Music: sync enabled by default