My system Data takes 71Gb

App & System Services Core OS iOS

Daibz OP

Created Oct ’21

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pls what’s going and how can i resolve this mess

Answered by Claude31 in 691514022

Did you purge all caches, notably in Safari ?

Get details here on how to do:

h t t p s : / / w w w.macworld.com/article/232651/iphone-other-storage-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-delete-it.html

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Apple

Dec ’22

Hi there,

You might have better luck asking this question over in Apple Support Communities run by Apple Support.

Abhitash OP

Dec ’22

Mine is taking up 120 gigs. What do I do?

zachbutler04 OP

Jan ’23

The app usage data presented in Settings--> General --> iPhone Storage --> {app name} does not include usage data from log files, cache and other system data that is written to disk. For example: an app showing a total of 1.5GB consumption between "App Size" + "Documents and Data" may actually be consuming much more in the "System Data" bucket.

Solution: To clear the applications writing data (logs, cache, etc) to "System Data", you will need to remove the app completely by Remove App --> Delete App & Contents --> then reinstall the application from the App Store. I was able to reclaim ~15GB of System Data by deleting Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Then reinstalling those apps.

Always78 OP

Jan ’23

I fixed mine by deleteing all the video streaming apps, YouTube, Netflix etc and all their data. Then reinstalling them.

Fill-X OP

Jan ’23

Hello all, I also have the same issue but it is coming from icloud. I un-synched iCloud and the files on my ipad did not disappears but became System Data.

Very annoying. I am resetting my ipad twice a week lately.

jivsto OP

Feb ’23

My fix was to delete Apple podcast and reinstall it. That freed 130GB of the memory.

SergeRZ OP

Mar ’24

Anyone found a fix? I can't believe this has been reported, and still a fix hasn't been found.... let's you know where the priorities are...

jeffckchow OP

Jun ’24

[Trick that actually works] If you have an iPhone capable of shooting ProRes video, go into your camera, go into video mode, and enable ProRes. You’ll notice a ticker at the top that tells you the maximum amount of time you can shoot in this mode. It will more than likely be 0 minutes, but you will see right below that a spinning ticker saying “optimizing resources.” This is getting rid of that system data that’s unneeded. I just left my phone in this mode for a few minutes and it freed up five minutes worth of video, but then gave me the option to continue free resources. It essentially got rid of the rest of the system data that wasn’t needed and left me with the free space above!

philipjosh OP

Jul ’24

Can you check this resource following the steps from there I reduced 30gb system storage: [https://pcglance.com/system-data-taking-all-my-iphone-storage/)

amitdor OP

Aug ’24

I have the same problem, but with more than 123GB. Is there an official fix? How can I get an official response from Apple? This thread is almost three years old.

KirovAir OP

The tip of @jeffckchow works like a charm! THANK YOU!! Finally I can backup my Whatsapp messages again.

I had almost 330GB in cache:

And now back to 13GB!