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cerealkiller741 t1_jdic98u wrote

Honestly, unless it’s causing issues for you, is to ignore that. It’s supposed to purge that stuff when you’re running low on system storage.

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Straight_Truth_7451 t1_jdilrx9 wrote

Nothing, its working as intended. Should your phone need space, some of that data will be deleted

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PiXLANIMATIONS t1_jdiv72v wrote

You don’t need to. It’ll go down as space reduces automatically

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Z4bls t1_jdj3gsy wrote

Try turning your phone off for 5 min then rebooting, always works for me to clear the cashes

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BelieveInTheEchelon t1_jdj6isd wrote

Wait until 16.4. There have been lots of reports of the other storage being purged and regulated better now. I am currently on it, and my other before was 20gb. Now it’s currently at 4gb

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ding0ding0 t1_jdjhtwp wrote

”This value will fluctuate according to system needs.”

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jimjr27 t1_jdjn4lf wrote

Apple’s statements on Other System Data are crap. When it’s the biggest space user on my phone and iOS wants me to delete my apps to upgrade the OS, then it doesn’t “clear data when needed”. The only way I could fix this is to backup my iPhone to my Mac using “backup all data”, factory resetting the phone, and restoring from the Mac backup. This cleared up 20+gb for me.

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kdrdr3amz t1_jdjt3e6 wrote

I had to factory reset my iPhone and then just use iCloud to retrieve my old data. It worked for me. I think I have to do it soon again.

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nikkithegr8 t1_jdjwou0 wrote

the fact that apple does not give option to clear cache system wide or to clear cache for apps is insane. come on apple, its 2023 you can do better

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jadondrew t1_jdjy7fm wrote

Replying to nikkithegr8 (#2,344,135)

I feel this way about not being able to turn off HDR on photos. Sometimes I just do not want my images blasted with fake lighting. Unfortunately Apple is not keen on giving you options and toggles.

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J5Sacay t1_jdjzckt wrote

Recently restored mine because of this

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crisego t1_jdk2qts wrote

The only solution is to backup your data and completely restore the iphone. I had to do this twice already …

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gda8700 t1_jdk5h4j wrote

I just connect my iPhone to iTunes, let it sync and do whatever it’s gotta do. That brings it down.

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sonicstreak t1_jdk72lu wrote

Have you tried deleting your system data?

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SiR_SwAG_Al0t t1_jdk8l1b wrote

Must have 13/14 Pro or Pro Max

1- Settings > Camera > Formats > Turn Apple ProRes ON

2- Turn off WiFi (you’ll essentially be taking a very very long video and you don’t want to back up to your iCloud as you’ll be deleting it later)

3- Go to your camera and go into video mode. Turn on Pro Res on the top left, then change from 30 to 60FPS on the top right

4- you will notice it tells you how many minutes you can shoot in this mode before your storage gets full. The goal is to shoot a video for that amount of time where as long as it will let you until you get the message “free resources“ Make sure you take a video for the maximum amount it lets you. Once you select free resources, it seems that the first thing the phone clears out is those hidden cache files in system data. I did this and went from 70GB system data to 15GB which seems appropriate.

If you have a 128 or 256 gig iPhone, do you need to maximize that so just shoot as long as video as you can make sure your phone is plugged in to your charger as well just to be safe. Hope this helps everyone else!

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Luke_S4 t1_jdk8lfq wrote

Replying to jadondrew (#2,344,306)

You can, go into the camera settings and at the bottom is 'Smart HDR'. Turning that off will reveal an HDR button in the camera app, when it has a cross going through it HDR is off. That's at least what I'm led to believe it does, I could be wrong tho

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Korrrrrrl t1_jdk9zah wrote

I just ignore it. I’ve seen it go up and down on its own so I never considered forcing it to reduce.

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hallba78 t1_jdkjsm0 wrote

I had 68GB of System Data and couldn’t get it to move much at all no matter what I did. I even manually deleted nearly every app to get rid of its associated data and even that didn’t get me below 60GB.

The only way I’ve found to wipe out nearly all of the system data is to factory reset the device and set it up as a new phone. Of course, you’ll lose EVERYTHING that’s not backed up to iCloud, Dropbox, etc so be careful. You will even lose device settings like haptics and sounds. After doing that and reinstalling all my apps, I had about 2GB of system data.

My theory as to why I had so much: I have not set up any of my last 4 or 5 iPhones up as a new device. I have been just allowing the old phone to load everything onto the new phone each time. I’m guessing after doing that several times, I ended up with a large pile of orphaned data that the phone had no idea what to do with. I could be way off on this; maybe an expert can set me straight.

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PM_ME_YOUR_NOODLEZZ t1_jdkl0zq wrote

Sometimes when you sync with itunes or finder (if on Mac) will reduce the size.

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[deleted] t1_jdkx2yp wrote

Only way to fix it is to restore your iPhone, apple won’t add a clear cache button because they’re shit

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Shark00n t1_jdl1bkc wrote

Idk but 28GB? What a whimp.

The system data on my iPad surpasses the 140GB mark. A true champion

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Curb__ t1_jdl72tz wrote

Back up your phone on iTunes, factory reset, apply backup

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liquidsmk t1_jdldjo6 wrote

Replying to madman666 (#2,340,078)

And this is why we keep seeing these posts every day because none of these methods have ever worked. The system doesn’t work the way apple says it’s supposed to work. It’s the same bs on the Mac but at least there I can actually fix the issue easily. Just cleared 80GB on my Mac today by creating disk images totaling 110GB until my drive was full, forcing it to delete shit I deleted weeks ago. But I had to create 8 separate disk images of various sizes to not trigger not enough space errors. Errors that should never happen if the system works the way they describe it.

The system is logically flawed in its design at the very core.

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FindusDE t1_jdlq34t wrote

Reboot your phone first. If that doesn‘t work, follow the advice others have posted here

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trexx888 t1_jdm58jd wrote

In my case Normally just i restart the phone every 2 days clear up lot of junk space around 2gb

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