For info, see my post above, and both devices have a number of games, some social media, photo editing, shopping...a wide variety and large number of apps on both phone and ipad...
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iOS 15.4 Update - Storage Gone
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For info, see my post above, and both devices have a number of games, some social media, photo editing, shopping...a wide variety and large number of apps on both phone and ipad...
Yes after all the dust settled I lost 16GB.Any idea what would cause this? Maybe the costliest update I’ve ever performed. Update itself was only about 6.75 GB. Update used ~9GB.
Not sure how many more updates I'll be able to afford? Shame, device is only 2 years old. ?
^^^ This ^^^
This is what I did to resolve the situation where my System Data sat at 37 GB. Now it sits under 3GB.
This. If anything, at least the other cruft.
I do it once a week as need to enter my passcode anyway then (the 6.5 day time-out value hits if one has not provided a passcode and only used biometrics since last type-in).
I strongly recommend everyone to downgrade back and wait on the next update. In my experience since IOS 9, dont update your iphone if the build number has 3 digits after the letter. Take a look at previous ios versions. 13 was horrible, 15 came out horrible with 3 digits. 15.1 started with the os being stable until we get to 15.4. Do yourself a favor and drop back down until the next update. There are more problems that is not listed. I tested 15.4 during beta testing, and it was horrible. I dropped back down after releasing release candidate was a dumpster fire. I cant blame apple for stalling pushing out the update. However, since i have an iphone 13 pro max, i want everything to work normal.
I did what was suggested in post #6 of doing a wipe/restore.
It lowered 'System Data' for a couple days. But it is now back up 15+ GB.
Any idea what would cause this? Maybe the costliest update I’ve ever performed. Update itself was only about 6.75 GB. Update used ~9GB.
Not sure how many more updates I'll be able to afford? Shame, device is only 2 years old. ?
Hello this is fixed after few days for you?
I just updated now from 15.3.1, Before update i had 87Gb free and now 81.
Looking the free storage, it was about 8giga less after upgrade.
The system data size has been improving, from 13-15giga (first day)to 9-11giga (now)
The system data size has been improving, from 13-15giga (first day)to 9-11giga (now)
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I shouldn’t have to wipe and restore my device. If I do that, I will have to manually re-setup some things like my work 2FA apps and crap that never seems to come back from backups. And NOW my phone is even worse since the last time I posted:
I agree that you should not have to do such things. I did have an issue similar to yours where my System Data was sitting at 37GB. After I performed the Recovery Mode Restore, my System Data is consistently at about 3GB max and ramps down. Might be worth a try for you.
I have reported the issue to Apple engineering (after support) and have a case open. They are going to contact me on Monday. Meantime I am supposed to erase and restore. Which of course I told them was not an acceptable go-to solution for some of us (I have apps and work stuff that doesn’t reliably restore without re-setup).
Doing a encrypted backup and restore does backup everything including password information. Not sure if that would alleviate your use case.
Please explain Recovery mode restore , did you reload the OS via recovery mode then restore a backup via your Notebook / iTuned / PC ?
Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings using a computer - Apple Support
A factory restore erases the information and settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod and installs the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, or iPod software.
