Hi all
After recently updating my iPhone 11 Pro Max to 17.7.2 (from 17.7.1) via OTA (which I never normally do as I prefer to use Finder) I appear to have lost all my phone storage with the update showing as taking up over 20Gb space, while system data is 8Gb.
Im pretty sure this is exorbitant and should be nowhere near this size.
Any ideas how to get it trimmed back?
Many thanks
Found the solution.
There was an iOS update (iOS 18.1.1) already downloaded waiting for install and wit was listed way down the list of apps by size.
For some reason the update file was only showing as a few hundred Mb (which seems very suspect), but when I deleted it, lo and behold my iOS 17.7.2 file size (in pic above) instantly halved and now shows as just 10.52Gb. Much more like it!
Found the solution.
There was an iOS update (iOS 18.1.1) already downloaded waiting for install and wit was listed way down the list of apps by size.
For some reason the update file was only showing as a few hundred Mb (which seems very suspect), but when I deleted it, lo and behold my iOS 17.7.2 file size (in pic above) instantly halved and now shows as just 10.52Gb. Much more like it!
Hey, tnx for the idea. Updated to 17.7.2 only a week ago and two or three days ago I relized it takes more than 20gb. I found the downloaded ios 18.1.1 update, about a size of 700mb, deleted it, and now ios 17.7.2 takes "only" about 10,5gb. Tnx for sharing. I’m iphone Xs
I cant seem to find any way to handle this.
My flatmate is running iOS 17.6 on his iPhone and the iOS is half the size!!
I know the System Data can apparently go up/down but I'm pretty sure that main iOS shouldn't be anything like this size.
I'm at a loss, short of wiping the phone and restoring it, but of course that will then also update to iOS 18 which I'm not entirely convinced I'm ready for just yet.
Or is there a way to entirely wipe the whole thing including iOS and restoring but keeping it at 17.7.2 ?
Many thanks
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iPhone 11 Pro Max showing iOS 17.7.2 as 21GB and System Data as 8GB in iPhone Storage
