iPhone System taking up storage space

So Apple can Sell and advertise 16g iPhone without clarifying 10g or so will be used on updates and system files? Are you an Apple inc employee? I have laptops with 1 TB memory and less than 1% is used for system files and you believe 50-60% System files is justifiable?

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Erase your phone and restore from your latest backup. I got back 15GB on my 32 GB phone

I did this and it worked for me also. You want to set it back to a new phone then restore from backup. You actually used it as a new phone to ensure the memory use was “normal” before initialising it again and restoring from backup.

So LifeTekk, can you give us some numbers? How much storage does ‘System’ use before you delete your overstuffed Facebook app, and how much does ‘System’ use after deleting and redownloading Facebook? I have tried the app delete/restore with a number of suspect apps and it does nothing to the ‘System’ storage which is taking a full 38% of my storage space. Even after erasing and restoring my phone.

it is obvious that one would try all means, scour the net before resorting to posting on Apple's forum.

and the question is to apple. I have tried all means. including opening itunes, let it sit. back up iCloud and reset etc.

It probably is not a problem of any kind. Other includes system software and settings, plus the data from all of the built in apps. That means all iCloud email messages, all text threads, all calendar entries, all notes, all reminders, all bookmarks, All cached news stories, Stock data, Weather data, Health data (this can be huge), Wallet data, Game Center, Siri settings, your Keychain, the cache of all open Safari pages, and any attachments to any of these. It also includes the storage map, whose size is proportional to the capacity of the phone.

Make a backup and restore the phone as New without logging in to your Apple ID. Check the size of Other. This is the space taken by iOS. Then restore your backup. The difference in the size of Other is the size of all of your data for the built in apps. See this for a more detailed explanation-->What is "Other" and What Can I Do About I… - Apple Community

The point is that after restoring to a backup whatever is in Other is real data that belongs to you.

I finally found THE answer to this one.

Just DISABLE iCloud drive in your settings and whoops... system storage drops to a normal size.

It's incredible that people are forced to erase everything and restore their device. Why didn't anyone from apple came up with this answer??

I have two iPads: 16GB and 32GB. They all consumed ALL of my space.

They all had the same problem. Now my 16GB oldie has a system space of 2GB.

Bottom line: if you have a large iCloud drive and a device with small storage capacity: disable iCloud drive!

i have the same issue with my 6s right now. i have 16 GB on this phone and the “system” is currently taking up 12.53 GB. i’ve tried things like deleting a bunch of things, getting itunes on my laptop and going from there, and i’ve tried backing up my photos onto google photos so then i can delete most of them off of this device. i even tried disabling the icloud thing but that didn’t change anything. obviously, i realize now that none of that is gonna make this better. i might as well go talk to apple about it or maybe just get a new phone cause i have no space left on my phone.

It’s System files. No way to delete them unless you want to brickify your iPhone.

Thanks, that's helpful information.

You think you have a problem?