System Data over 70GB with iOS 15
With iOS 15.4 and 15.5 my XR suddenly uses huge amounts of system data. It is currently using 75 GB. Does anyone else have this issue? How do I fix it?
iPhone XR, iOS 15
With iOS 15.4 and 15.5 my XR suddenly uses huge amounts of system data. It is currently using 75 GB. Does anyone else have this issue? How do I fix it?
iPhone XR, iOS 15
That’s not good, and probably means there’s storage corruption. It can usually be fixed by backing up your phone, resetting it to factory settings, then restoring the backup:
That’s not good, and probably means there’s storage corruption. It can usually be fixed by backing up your phone, resetting it to factory settings, then restoring the backup:
That can indicate either storage corruption on your PC or an old backup on the PC that is damaged. In iTunes Preferences, Devices panel, see if there is an old backup. If there is click on it, then click Delete followed by OK. Then wait a minute for the delete process to complete.
I see occasional reports of this issue. It can be caused by an interrupted sync, and I’ve read that there was a bug in WhatsApp that can cause it by expanding the cache to use all space. I think the WhatsApp issue has been fixed, but the damage caused by it doesn’t go away by itself.
I downloaded iTunes to try to do a backup. It says
“iTunes could not back up the iPhone because not enough free space is on this computer”
That is crazy, there is only 60-70GB of data on this phone and the phone only holds 128GB. I have over 400GB of free space on this hard drive.
Thank you Lawrence. Is this a known issue with this iOS? I see a couple other reports of this problem and trying to figure out if it is a bug with the iOS that will get fixed.
Thank you again. I’ll try the steps you recommended. Hopefully it works and doesn’t come back!
Thanks for your thoughts Lawrence. The PC is only a few months old so it is unlikely the problem. I just downloaded iTunes on it for the first time yesterday so there can’t be any old backups. ☹️
System Data over 70GB with iOS 15