My phone miraculously gained an extra 26GB of storage and has used none of it. 😂
Go home Apple. You’re drunk.
Go home Apple. You’re drunk.
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Some Users Plagued by Incorrect 'iPhone Storage Almost Full' Alert After Updating to iOS 15
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No, restoring from backup doesn't make it a clean install.
Set everything up from scratch.
People who's devices are not behaving correctly or are using unexplained amounts of storage etc - it all goes away with a clean install. Just have to set aside a few hours, depending on how many apps and things you need to set-up.
Well if you are having issues which an in-place upgrade caused/didn't solve, then you have no choice.
A few hours work is worth it though. If you are happy with in-place upgrades and don't have any issues then no need to do it, obviously.
“Almost” is but a matter of opinion.
Technically, it’s not wrong.
But just technically.
And even “just” and “technically” are but matters of opinion.
Technically, it’s not wrong.
But just technically.
And even “just” and “technically” are but matters of opinion.
Security enchantments? 🪄✨ I would hope it doesn't take magic for them to fix this.
and other improvements and security enchantments.
as someone who started a thread for this issue in this very forum: nope, i read all my emails and don't have a stack of notifications and badges anywhere on my devices (iphone and ipad).
All these Crying Babies should go back to school A to learn how to use device. it is not a bug... user error. Most of these user do not have enough cloud coverage. and they need to go to General -Iphone storage and click show all and delete all the garbage they have sitting in their iPhones, including IOS updates.
This is how I roll too. Usually by Christmas time the big annoying bugs are ironed out.
14.8 runs great on my launch iPhone 7. Best iPhone I’ve ever had. I might just go one more year with this thing. I really want 120hz but the pro is just too big! But i doubt they will ever bring it to the mini. But maybe they will next year?! I’m in a rough spot!!!
It started, in earnest, in 2013 with iOS 7. It’s not a B&W change (they messed up prior), but the problem really stood out with the horrible redesign of iOS, and spread outward from there. That’s the point for me where the Apple that sold me on their superiority stopped existing and today’s Wall Street Apple took over.
Not a good start. Did not update my iPhone yet. Will wait till the issue is ironed out before updating.
This is so strange because I'm having the exact opposite problem on my 12 Pro—it says I'm only using like 50/256 GB, which is absolutely incorrect. I have well over 50 GB of photos alone, and the graphic shows my storage is more than 50% full. So I wonder if these peoples' phones are almost full and the info page is just wrong.
So here’s my theory/2 cents. This won’t apply to every screenshot I’m seeing but I have seen on numerous attempts at migrating directly from one phone to the new one at least, and sometimes with iCloud restores but for perhaps different reasons, that after the copying is finished, the phone proceeds in some order of post migration operations to clean itself up. One thing it seems to do and is a pain/ problem especially for folks with a lot of photos in particular is to upload photos copied over/restored, even if you have iCloud photos on, to see if there’s duplicates or not (I assume) and while the photos are stored in that working storage “other” category, it count that as system/other storage until it sorts through them all in some kind of de-duplication process. I’ve seen it cause people to run out of space even though there was plenty of free space in the old phone. I’ve seen cases where people somehow had tons of photos in their Camera rolls and after cleaning that up I could get the restore to work. I myself with a lot of photos saw something like this today with my 13 saying it only had 64GB of free space of 256GB when my old phone had something like 150GB free. But I’ve kept an eye on it and sure enough it’s gradually moving the quota over to photos and how much free space I have is increasing. At some point I saw a pause for iCloud uploading even post migration when my phone is fully migrated after taking my phone off the charger and using it for a bit. I bet overnight my storage will work itself and out and perhaps tomorrow look how it should.