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Rydawg96

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Aug 7, 2018
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I have a major issue with my iPhone, and I have found no way possible to fix it! All of the sudden, my storage keeps going full, and there is no way to get any free data whatsoever because of what’s actually consuming it. Of all the 256GB of data on my 16 Pro Max, 170 GB of it is being consumed by system data, aka data that is only supposed to be temporary, not permanent. And the worst part is, nothing I do to free up storage lasts before it consumes it up again. I delete an app that’s consuming a few GB of data, the system data fills it up again. I deleted my Safari cache, did nothing. I even did the date trick, did nothing. And there is no way to clear the cache with a simple button, which there should be. How am I supposed to clear this? Is there any tool available for the Mac that can clear the system data cache without me completely wiping the phone and restoring? Because I already did that a month ago and I don’t want to do it again. There should be an easy fix for this… like my iCloud backup is only 12 Gb for this phone, there is no way that I should have a cache as humongous as 170gb that’s bigger than my permanent data.
 
Perhaps it's time to try a factory reset. And have you got any weird apps installed, anything that claims to optimize the system (if this crap even exists for iDevices)?
 
I am experiencing the same problem. My systemdata keeps growing without reason. I did a fresh restore of my iPhone last Monday and today systemdata is at 104GB. That’s way to much and a big chunk of my 512 GB capacity. Yesterday I phoned with Apple support but they didn’t com up with a solution jet. I have another phone call scheduled on Thursday and I hope that they have something. I restored a few times already the last weeks and the systemdata keeps growing after few days.
 
Have you tried using Terminal.app and the du command to track down where all that data is?

Sorry, wrong kind of device.
 
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