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Is there anything I can do about this extremely vague block of data that’s taking up 30% of my phone’s storage? Mind you, this isn’t the operating system itself, as that’s listed as its own category.

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Is your phone out of storage?

This value will fluctuate according to system needs

iOS might wait to purge the cache until it needs the space