Re: System Storage Full

Does it show the same when connected to iTunes?

I'm experiencing basically the same situation right now. I have a 6S+ running iOS 11 beta 3. This morning I started getting those annoying "your iPhone is almost out of storage" warnings, which made no sense because I know that I use less than half the storage.

Sure enough I checked the storage usage, and after several minutes the storage settings finally loaded and told me that the System category was using 42 GB of my storage! At this point I couldn't even open the damned camera.

The only thing I can think of is that the downloaded iOS 11 betas are not cleaning up after themselves. They're probably storing tons of temp files and as far as I know I have no way to delete them directly.

Anybody have some advice here?

Having the same issue here, iPhone 7+ was reporting 85GB system, so deleted 20+ gigs and now system is using 111GB. Tried syncing with iTunes, hard restart and phone clean app with no luck. As soon as you clear out space, system will grab whatever is available immediately. Hope this gets cleaned up.

Hit this as well today.  iPad Pro with the System usage sitting at around 215GB.

No idea what's caused it, can't see anything obvious.  An iPhone 7 I have on the same iCloud account and also on the iOS 11 betas is normal so it doesn't appear to be anything synced.

Logging gone mad perhaps?

This feels like the same APFS bug that macOS beta 1-3 had where APFS couldn’t clean up free space after trashing files.

I'm hitting this issue now as well.

I filed a radar 33722518. This issue seems to only have become present on iOS 11 beta 4 for me.

I've got an iPhone 7 Plus 128GB. System is reportedly taking up ~51GB. 

Deleting stuff does seem to help but after an hour or two it's back to full.

Clearing Safari cookies and data did reduce it by about 2GB but that's since filled back up.

Apple Support recommended erasing and restoring the phone from a backup in cases like this.

There isn't enough room for a sysdiagnose to complete either.

Does anyone know if Apple are requesting the installation of a specific profile for them to debug this issue further? They are yet to reply to my radar.

I have the same problem with a new iPhone SE 32 GO. running 11.0.1. 32Go are used out of 32. CAnnot take any photo (but screenshos are allowed). Some apps can start, some other not. I keep deleting app, but space is consumed within a few hours/minutes.

In brief : phone is unusable.

Same issue: iPhone 8, iOS 11.0.1. "System" under ïPhone Storage" keeps increasing -- now it's 6.6Gbytes.

It was around 8Gbytes two days ago. Erased and restored iPhone, increasing again: 6.6Gbytes.

Any update? Or fix? I had 6.6 gb full on the “System” folder, deleted 2 gigs of music and the freeking System folder increased to 8.6 gb! What the heck!

Many people have similar issue:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/84212

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/84466

https://openradar.appspot.com/33956346

https://openradar.appspot.com/33980454

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/6oreio/bug_is_system_supposed_to_take_10_gb_of_storage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/6grcqm/bug_ios_11_is_taking_up_way_too_much_storage_is/

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/298242/ios-11-takes-tons-of-storage

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-storage-system-taking-19-3gb-of-space-no-idea-why-update-now-21gb-and-growing.2059087/page-5

I myself have the same problem on iOS 11.1 Beta. I tried backup->reset->restore and it doesn't fix the problem.

Same Problem!! 95% of the space has occupied by system!! **** ****!! Why Apple is not care about this stupid problem??? We cannot backup-reset-restore every week!!

I have not had this problem but it sounds like the system is taking way to much storage. You should try to restore your iPhone. You will lose all of your data on your iPhone but restoring your phone will fix the problem.

I had this problem. Tried deleting photos, attachments, apps, podcasts, etc.  Basically the system Would fill up any avail memory. I have an older iPad with 32GB and it would fill to 31.8GB and the notify that memory was full.

heres what I did:

1 full backup.

2 Erase all content and settings

3.restore - did not enable Apple data collection.

memory went down to 15.2 GB with major reductions in photos and system.

clearly a bug in iOS version. 11.1.

I‘ll letcha know what happens.

I’ve had the same issue for months now. My “System” storage is taking up nearly 59 of the 64 GBs available on my phone. I’m going to try erase all and start fresh and see what happens, but all of your responses aren’t giving much hope. Apple - what’s the deal, yo?!?

Same here with iphone se. Sons phone and only had it a month as a replacement for a faulty phone less than 12 months old. Deleting any app's etc it just filled up with "other" until it won't work,  tried a hard reset and it is now stuck on connect to iTunes and restore, been connected to iTunes for an hour and been stuck in extracting software at the same point. Will definitely not be buying another iphone, worst phone I ever owned. Will stick with Samsung in future, never had these issues.

Im still wondering how to lower my data since i had a long call after getting carried away and it went from 11GB to like 14GB and it was only half an hour

This is also happening on non-beta devices running 11.2.6

Hey guys, if you guys are wondering what the best way to isolate the software as being an issue is to restore, set up as new. Repeatedly restoring from a backup may just keep reinstalling the software issue back on your phone. Hope this helps!

Found same storge full message on 128GB memory iPad running IOS 12.1.  System storage usage was up to nearly 128GB.

I found that the W.E.L.D.E.R and Solitaire apps had identical Documents and Data size of 18446744073705649985.

I deleted just the W.E.L.D.E.R app and reinstalled it from the app store.  After the app storage sizes were recomputed the Documents and Data size for both W.E.L..D.E.R and Solitaire were correct and the system size was reset back to 7.9GB