“Other” and “System” storage is taking up literally over half of my storage

So ive been trying to make storage on my phone since its been pretty full for a while. Im currently putting all my photos onto icloud. And i deleted a bunch of apps. But the “System” category is taking 7.44 GB of my storage and “Other” is taking up 9.47 GB and i think thats outrageous. I have an iphone 7 and i think ive had it for about 2 years. Rn the largest app taking up space is photos with about 5 GB and the rest have under 400 MB. ive gotten it down to about 25 GB but system and other is taking up most of that. Ive already cleared my safari history and cookies and cleared ALL my messages bc i dont have minutes and dont use messages i use insta, and these numbers are after i did that. What can i do? im gonna try backing it up and restarting it or whatever but its saying i dont have enough space on icloud for a backup even though its 4/5ths empty with 4 GB of empty space.

Hi there,

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

Other is filled by the system and some app logs. To, temporally, clean up the "other" space, which don'l let me to perform an update on my iPhone 6s-16GB, I do:

  • Backup (I do it on the Mac selecting "Back up all the data on your iPhone to this Mac")
  • Delete everything: General / Transfer or Reset iPhone / Erase All Content and Settings
  • Wait for the restart; the iPhone is as new.
  • Login on appleseed.apple.com, download the iOS profile and restart (this step of course can be omitted)
  • Restore from the backup.

At this point the "Other" is empty.

“Other” and “System” storage is taking up literally over half of my storage
 
 
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