Mine has now gone up, slowly over the course of the day to 700GB if system storage. A reset causes it to disappear back to normal, but going by the last 2 times, it creeps up constantly and within 12 hours will be back to 700GB.
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Over 600GB of system data?
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I've got this fixed with a solution on another thread by resetting the iPhone settings. A pain to get your personalised settings set up again but this has fixed the issue for my iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Unfortunately, your only recourse is setting up your phone as new.
Hopefully, most of your apps synchronize data to the cloud, but for those that do not, you will lose data (e.g., game progress). Just to be safe, create a full backup on your Mac/PC then setup your phone as new (not iCloud restore either).
Hopefully, most of your apps synchronize data to the cloud, but for those that do not, you will lose data (e.g., game progress). Just to be safe, create a full backup on your Mac/PC then setup your phone as new (not iCloud restore either).
Interestingly I tried yesterday a power off reset, which cleared the data, followed by forcing a backup via iCloud-Back Up Now and since then the data has not grown, although I might be too early to know for sure, but overnight there has been no change at all.
It does seem from what I’ve read that this might be backup related.
It does seem from what I’ve read that this might be backup related.
So, system data is not just operating software but also recycled data or deleted apps/media, most can say it’s corrupted data on your iPhone, but you can get rid of it by doing a hard reset or if that doesn’t work doing a fresh install, it’s not the end of the world that data will balance itself out and get reused again but that’s how flash drive’s work.
I.e. it’s how you can recover some data files because the data is never completely destroyed until it’s rewritten by something else completely per se
The issue here is that the phone’s storage is literally filling up, and iOS starts throwing warnings about being out of disk space. Rebooting clears it out for everyone that’s tried, but then it almost immediately starts filling up again, prompting more warnings.
What you said is all correct in the normal case. But there’s some runaway process or task that’s writing unbounded data into the logs (or somewhere similar)
This was a massive glitch with my old iPhone 7 Plus, the data kept getting corrupted and i had to do new installs with the DFW upgrade at the time from itunes, apple engineers kept telling me it’s because i kept choosing to do restore corrupted data from a different iPhone backup and the solution they offered to me was to just set up the phone as brand new, it’s weird that’s it‘s popping up again but to be honest it wouldn’t surprised if apple reps started telling customers to do fresh installs. I remember vividly a solution that worked instantly was to back it up on itunes, restore it through there and have it update and it would get rid of that data, since no one backs up with itunes anymore I highly doubt it work but it’s a worth a shot!
Things like this is worth talking to service reps and start the paperwork you never know what kind of OS glitch abounds with system storage!
PS it must be an os Glitch, I had 314gb of music yesterday, i checked it today and it’s back down to 292gb, but now my system storage is 36.04gb, I’m so confused lolol as i was typing it keeps going up hahaha
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Out of curiosity has anyone tried emailing Tim? I know he doesn't respond to all requests, but this one seems to be something that has to be looked at.
I spoke too soon. It did seem to slow down the progression, but the issue is still ongoing.
16.0.2 did not fix it either.
I have so many apps on my my phone that the idea of a full reset and restore as new is not viable.
Fingers crossed a less dramatic fix becomes available.
Public Beta 2 did not help for me.
Try the Public Beta 2 test
I found Apple Maps is filling all my data. It shows as System Data initially but if I leave it for long enough it then identifies it as Apple Maps. Currently >20GB.
Not sure if that’s the same issue. I erased Apple Maps and it cleared up the space but then Apple Maps gobbled it all up again within a few days.
Not sure if that’s the same issue. I erased Apple Maps and it cleared up the space but then Apple Maps gobbled it all up again within a few days.
Hi Schmidt65
I’ve been having the same problem ever since getting my new iPhone 14 a week ago. The system data just keeps building up until the storage is completely full. I’ve wiped the phone 3 times but the same fault returned. The only way I could stop this happening was to turn off Wi-Fi and just run on mobile data.
I contacted Apple support a couple of times and they called me today from technical support. After analysing the data on my phone they advised me to update is to iOS 16.0.2 but to do this through iTunes and NOT just on the phone. So I connected the phone to my laptop and did just that. After the download the phone restarted and since then the system data has stayed stable at about 5g. They told me that doing the update through my computer on iTunes is a more thorough in store than doing it just on the phone. They said doing the update on iTunes removes the previous version of software and installs the new rather than just over writing it. Well, so far so good, I hope this helps you.