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Why does iTunes eat storage space when restoring a phone

I am trying to use iTunes on a Windows PC to restore from a backup... when trying to do so, iTunes has taken up a total of 27.84GB of storage... this isn't backing up a phone... this is putting the already made backup, onto my phone... this should not take up almost 30GB of storage to transfer a already existing file over a USB cable...

iPhone X, iOS 13

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 7:57 PM

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Posted on Jul 8, 2019 8:04 PM

think I discovered what its doing... its literally taking a new backup of my device everytime I try to restore from a backup... wow iTunes, wow https://i.imgur.com/uwAfEx8.png

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Why does iTunes eat storage space when restoring a phone

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