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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    182·
    5 days ago

    attempt to force people to pay for more storage

    Also, can we acknowledge how absurd this is?

    And before we go into “Apple uses fast storage”, a 256GB PCIe SSD, with the controller and interface and everything, is $30 retail for OEMs.

    128Gb 16Gx8 of raw MLC NAND is $3.4.

    https://www.trendforce.com/price/flash/flash_contract

    https://www.dramexchange.com/#pc-client-oem-price

    And Apple charges $200 for 512GB instead of 256GB.

    This is past “upcharging” and into robbery. That’s literally getting into DDR $/GB territory.

    …I mean, it’s not a deal breaker (I can just work around it with plex and usb storage), but making stuff inconvenient is not very Apple.

    • Shirasho@lemmings.world
      81·
      5 days ago

      This is not anything new. They were selling laptops with $200 worth of parts for $999 when Apple was starting to take off. Highway robbery is nothing new for them.

      • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
        31·
        5 days ago

        The TV stand is like the biggest elephant in the room because theirs no way that thing costed more than $30.

  • Windex007@lemmy.world
    151·
    5 days ago

    Kinda want to barf posting here because im the absolute farthest thing from an apple enthusiast…

    But my helpful nature exceeds my loathing of apple…

    My wife’s iPhone had this issue. The VAST majority of that space is old OS data that doesn’t get cleaned up properly.

    TO RESOLVE THIS and get probably 50gb back, do a full backup (I did on iTunes but apparently there is a cloud way to do that too?)

    Then do a factory reset of the phone.

    Then restore from backup.

  • (des)mosthenes@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 days ago

    oh jeez. to be honest the new OS feels like several steps backwards in many places; in terms of UI/UX - wish we could safely downgrade like the old days

  • Kronusdark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I have seen my system data fluctuate quite a bit. I wish they would let us know what it consists of.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zipOP
      4·
      5 days ago

      My install of 26 is only 12GB on mine (the rest is Apple Intelligence and install reserved space).The 26.1 Beta requires an extra 22GB of storage before it will even install. My guess is room to unpack and temp operations.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 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.