I have a 15 Pro 128GB and I can no longer install betas with their sheer size and how much the current OS takes up.

  • OS: 32.5GB
  • System Data: 26GB
  • Update: 22GB

That’s over 80GB just for iOS, which is almost 2/3 of the storage space. Annoyingly part of the OS is a 12GB reserve for updates but that doesn’t count for beta installs.

This is just getting way too bloated in an attempt to force people to pay for more storage. I’ve already offloaded a chunk of things to “the cloud” but that’s well beyond what I can keep coming up with.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    Windows has/had a feature where it kept a ton of system update data long after the update was done, and it just sat in a hidden folder on the off chance you wanted to roll back to an earlier state. But there was a command you could run that would wipe all that out, so you’d be stuck on the latest version but got several GB of usable space back.

    Apple needs to cool something like that into iOS. I like that there’s an iTunes method to accomplish the same, but it’s way too much effort.