ios 13.5.1 storage issues

You can take a backup on your iCloud post factory reset you can get back all your messages from iCloud backup.

Setting - ICloud - messaging is ON

Post factory reset - Just logon with your I cloud account you will get all the data however it would take sometime for syncing may be few hrs. I did the same and I have all the data same prior to factory reset.

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Shafiq

Update to iOS 13.6.1 which is specifically to address the “Other” problem.

or get an Android phone. I’m sure they are absolutely perfect and will never give you any problems.

It was the same on my cell. Don’t waste anymore of your time. just backup everything you can. I backed up everything to my prime account and Amazon account. then do a factory reset. It’s the only thing you can do at this point. It worked for me.

I got everything back. It was scary to wipe the phone. Just do it

I would try backup it up your phone then doing a re-install from the backup and see if that helps. I’ll be trying that tonight. Looks like it doesn’t grow forever but perhaps at least 10GB.

13.6.1 worked for me so far, I haven’t had the same issue since the upgrade( which helps me postpone a new smartphone purchase ). Give it a try if you are experiencing the same issue.

It is ridiculous that Apple has not been able fix this issue. Perhaps some of us who have done the full reset and not had the problem return can help. I’ve no idea if these changes I made actually contributed to preventing the problem but something has helped.

The first thing I did was to remove a couple of apps I used a lot. One was Facebook. Another was a local newspaper app. Since a lot of content was off loaded by these two apps I figured some of it was being directed to the other category.

I also downloaded a free ‘Cleaner’ app. I use it regularly to clean the cache and some other categories of left over files and logs.

Since I recovered about 15GB of other at The end of June I’ve only put a couple of GB back into other.

FWIW

Which Cleaner app are you using? Perhaps it can help us manage the Other after the full reset and restore. After trying everything else mentioned in this chat, I did the full reset and restore two days ago; so far so good!

I did all that too . Nothing work. It just kept cannibalizing everything. I had to completely wipe my phone. One tech told me this, which kind of made sense. That data corruption, which this seems to be. Is fragments of deleted information that your phone tries to fill in so it creates some kind of usable mapEverytime we delete something it actually keeps cannibalizing or filling it in to make sense of it. It’s corrupted. get rid of everything.

I was having this same issue on my iPhone 7 32GB recently. There was a fix for the storage issue in the iOS 13.6.1 update; however, I didn't have enough space available on my phone to update. I followed Lawrence Finch's advice in this thread and was able to update my software to the latest version, and my storage has plenty of free space now. Let's hope it remains that way.

What is "Other" and What Can I Do… - Apple Community

Hi, I can't comment on the 'Other' storage issue as I have no idea what the fix would be or if Apple is looking into it. However, I wanted to clarify with you the purpose of iCloud. iCloud is not an extension of storage for your phone; iCloud is meant to serve as more of a backup. You can use iCloud to help free up space on your device by choosing to optimize your photo library (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264). However, purchasing additional iCloud storage doesn't mean that your phone storage goes from 32GB to 82GB. I hope that makes sense. It's entirely possible to have 50GB of iCloud space, but still be receiving 'low storage' notifications on your device.

That is most likely your problem. Your phone needs at least 1 GB free at all times. Try restarting the phone to see if that frees some space. If not you will have to either offload or defeat enough apps or music to free up 1 GB.

I definitely had far less than 1GB free when I backed up and reset mine. I had 100GB free on iCloud but my phone was under 400MB.

I had the same issue, until my phone (iPhone 7 32GB Model A1778) suddenly turned off and then got into a loop starting up over and over again.

All of this after updating to ios 13.5.1, "other" went from 2~3GB to 13GB, then last time I was able to check it was 17GB, now I can't turn on my phone as it gets stuck in the loop.

Since I take a lot of care of my phone it is the only thing that comes to my mind.

The last comment of an url is helpless since it's a problem with the update which was made to prevent this problems "Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling."

Guess is time to get a new phone.

For backup issues, if you haven’t already tried, shut down and power back up your iPhone. Also power cycle macs you’re trying to back up to. Backing up is a more significant problem. I would try to fix that first.