Synced Content taking up a lot of storage in IOS 17

I have 50GB of music and when I synced my iPhone to Macbook,it doubled the GB's. Hopefully there is a solution to this. Not much about it on the internet as far as I know. Annoying!

iPhone 13, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 20, 2023 11:23 AM

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Nov 8, 2023 4:55 AM in response to Musicfan40

Apple don’t want you ro do it that way, they want you to pay via icloud so they are making it difficult for us, by doubling anything you sync across devices . It’s a con and apple are no longer the ethical company they used to be just a money making machine. I am so sad as I have been with them since inception and it is appalling.

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