Just to share the latest. I have gone to "manually" managing my music, videos, etc. on my iPhone, which, while painful has eliminated the problem for me. I was able to do some digging using a third party program called Wondershare SafeEraser and verify that when iTunes is synching music, something doesn't finish correctly and therefore leaves all the transferred music files as non-mp3 files. Therefore Music can't find them and the System storage seems them as some set of temporary files. I can actually delete them using SafeEraser and get the storage back. However using iTunes to synch automatically always results in them getting stuck as "system" temp files. So therefore reverting to manually managing has fixed it for me for about 4 weeks now. Clearly an iTunes / iOS bug of some sort that is nasty... hopefully a fix will come soon.
No, ios 11 doesn't take up much space at all, the other data is taking up the space...
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 5:12 AM Apple Support Communities Updates <
Different iPhone models have different system sizes. The iPhones 6s and 7, although they are quite similar in hardware, have details that make iOS have different sizes between them.
Back up and restore did nothing in my case.....grrrrrrrrrrrr
Wow, please tell me you took that to the Apple Store. They would love to see this.
I just did a full back up and restore on an iPhone 6 128gb and the system is taking "61.45 gb" ***!!!
Thanks will try lat
It’s System files. No way to delete them unless you want to brickify your iPhone.
Thanks, that's helpful information.
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iPhone System taking up storage space
