iPhone System taking up storage space

I’m having the same issue. I have a 32gig I pad. I had 5 movies which had left me with around 2gig prior to my discovery of the ”system” eating through my space. I deleted one movie which we’ll say was 5gig and at the time I thought “other portion” contained 4gig . Well after that one movie was deleted I found that 2 days later when I tried to download another movie there was inadequate space. Somehow system is now taking up 11.37 gig and I have less then 1.8gig remaining.

Hi, with no disrespect, I have also found that my system on my iPhone is taking up 9GB on my phone and I only have 16GB. So it does take up space on my phone. If you know a way to fix this please suggest it.

So I with others suspect the iPad or phones aren’t dumping old items. I cleared out another movie just see/confirm, low and behold removing a 5.5 gig movie allowed the system to consume and hold on to just over 16gigs of space. And since your unable to see what’s trapped there you are only able to get rid of it by restoring the iPad to a new state.

Anyone notice the amount of iOS system space might appear to be based on actual hard drive size and have nothing to do with actual system files during iOS updates, etc.? A 16gb and 64gb phone should have about the same amount of system space used (relatively speaking) - but that might not be the case. Seems the 16gb users may have 5-10 used and others with larg(er) hard drives seem to have a percentage of as much (50-75%) being used for "other" to the tune of up to 100gb. Seriously? When we all updated to the latest version of iOS, my phone should have stored as much as the next. Something smells here....

Non of this is helping. Sorry I don't seem to be able to post a comment independently of your reply box. Anyway, I hoped support communities could come up with a solution rather than endless complaints. I really wish apple was looking at this!!!!!

I had this problem with System using 31 GB on a 64 GB iPad. I found that deleting the Amazon Prime Video app (not just deleting videos within the app) and reinstalling it reduced my System size to 10.4 GB. Apparently Amazon is not trash collecting properly and passing the blame on to Apple.

I am facing the same problem.

I tried clearing my phone, erased it multiple times and set it as a new Iphone, but problem persists. Called apple support multiple times but they did not solve the issue. I am on 6s 16 GB

****** coders of apple. ****** off..

Ditto. Has anyone come up with a solution yet? I reset my phone (6s+/64 GB) to factory settings yesterday and restored from my backup. Less than half the memory was used right after I did this, but less than a day later, I'm getting "memory full" messages and "System" is taking up 40 GB!

Yes, it is too much. I have a 16GB iPhone with 8GB of use by "system". How is half the capacity of storage being used by the OS not too much? The operating system is great, but in 16GB devices, 1/2 is way too much. 50%.

I think the is actually a problem with third party apps not collecting garbage properly (i.e. not clearing deleted files & releasing storage), based on my experience with amazon video noted above. With five iOS devices in the household the only ones that have had this problem are the two with lots of third party video apps.

@ To all who are facing this odd issue of "System is taking too much space" (Mine was 15GB out of 16Gb)

I was struggling with the same issue for almost a month. I am on 6s, ios11, 16GB space.

I literally formatted by phone around 10 times, called Apple support multiple times, they opened ticket few times but nothing resolved this issue.

Then I started debugging by my own and fixed this issue.

The thing I did is

1. Formatted my phone (aka Factory reset)

2. Set it up as a new IPhone

3. Did not login to Icloud to restore any data.

Apparently Connecting my phone to my Icloud was making my system usage go crazy.

I would suggest to take a backup on mac (using iTunes though incase you want to get your old data back)

@ To all who are facing this odd issue of "System is taking too much space" (Mine was 15GB out of 16Gb)

I was struggling with the same issue for almost a month. I am on 6s, ios11, 16GB space.

I literally formatted by phone around 10 times, called Apple support multiple times, they opened ticket few times but nothing resolved this issue.

Then I started debugging by my own and fixed this issue.

The thing I did is

1. Formatted my phone (aka Factory reset)

2. Set it up as a new IPhone

3. Did not login to Icloud to restore any data.

Apparently Connecting my phone to my Icloud was making my system usage go crazy.

I would suggest to take a backup on mac (using iTunes though incase you want to get your old data back)

It’s a scam. I have a 16gb iPhone, system takes up 8gb, as soon as I delete ALL OF MY APPS the system claimed that spaceso my iPhone is full again, being now 12gb.

People with higher storage iPhones have the same problem, if your phone is 62gb, it will take up to 40gb, whatever is necessary to fill up the storage capacity and trick you into buying a new iPhone.

#scam

Doing so freed 1gb for me, then I deleted all of my apps and the system claimed that space, enough to make my phone full again.

it is very obvious to me that this is a scam, people with higher storage iPhones are having the same problem, system space adjust to make your phone always full so you end up buying a new one. My system was 8gb in a 16gb iPhone, After deleting all my apps it is 12gb.... this is a joke, nobody likes a company treating you like you are stupid

It surely is a weird problem. I had this problem with a 5s. Then I wiped it clean and restored it and the problem didn’t come back. Now I have a 256 GB iPhone X using 56 GB of 256 with only 12GB being used by System Storage. And I use iCloud for all my Photos (20000) as well as for my docs , etc.

My wife’s 5s is currently showing 22GB being used out of of 32GB with 6GB of system storage.

She also uses iCloud for docs and Photos (220000) storage. Other oddities - When I reboot her phone, it will first show about 15GB being used by photos and no System Storage indication at all. Then after a bit, when I check it again, Photos has dropped to about 3.75GB and System Storage appears at 6GB. ( on my iPhone X , photos take up about the same - around 3.5 GB and I have around the same amt of photos as she does). We both have photos set to “optimize storage”

Bottom line - I have no idea but I would try a wipe of the phone and then restore from backup.