System data occupies 120GB of space!!!

My iPhone 15 pro is 256GB of storage, meanwhile my system data takes 120GB! This is outrages, I'm left without free storage, I can't backup my WhatsApp chat, how is it possible system storage is so high

iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 12, 2024 04:00 AM

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Oct 27, 2024 04:29 AM in response to Alex_Gekhman

I had the exact same issue few months back, also at 120+ GB, then it reduced to 1GB after an IOS update, now it's happening again, back to 120+GB. Not sure why this keeps happening. I tried the tutorial above though, didn't work for me, it is still at 127GB.

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Sep 12, 2024 05:25 PM in response to Alex_Gekhman

Here is a nice tutorial on how to shrink the System Data.

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