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System Data is 20GB+
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You probably have iCloud backup on and haven’t ran it in a while. If your iCloud is full, either get more storage or turn the feature off.
How much space is available/free?
Thats going to be mostly cached data usually from deleting a large file or multiple large files or from unused App removal. If the iPhone doesn't need the space it won't waste the resources zapping it out of NAND especially if there is a possibility you might redownload that data or something. Free space is wasted space.
Thats going to be mostly cached data usually from deleting a large file or multiple large files or from unused App removal. If the iPhone doesn't need the space it won't waste the resources zapping it out of NAND especially if there is a possibility you might redownload that data or something. Free space is wasted space.
My iPhone Storage System Data, at one point, was about 37GB. The way I resolved this was to do an encrypted backup to my Mac computer and then put the phone in Recovery Mode and do a restore. I then restored from the encrypted backup. Now I see the System Data at 0KB most of the time. Never seems to go up higher the about 6GB but then goes back down.
