sberman wrote:
palmaga wrote:
Is there a way to reduce the size of the system without restoring?
Any other way would be more drastic; e.g., completely erasing the iPhone as if you were preparing to sell it.
It's not necessarily that drastic. I've actually done that before. It does work when new Apps or an iOS update won't install, even though a lot of the "other" storage is going to data that theoretically should be erased.
The way to do it is to just go to iTunes and do "Back Up Now", followed by "Restore Backup". I remember recovering up to 1.5 GB on a 16 GB device that way. It did start going up again, but at least I could get it to perform an update. It might have affected things like my list of phone calls.