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Originally Posted by jyl

If I were cynical, I'd speculate that Apple and other smartphone makers are not in a big hurry to provide an easy way for users to flush the "Other System Storage".

Don't get me wrong, I like iPhones a lot. Just bought my daughter an iPhone 12 mini for the e-sim feature, so she can have both her French and US SIMs active. But I try to keep our old iPhones going for as long as practical, and the only problem I have with this rather-aged iPhone XR is the storage filling up.

Our previous (and first) iPhones with the 6 with the big screen with 64Gb storage. Yeah, it was always a bit of a battle. When we finally upgraded, the 11s had been out a while, and we found XS new available via our cell provider at a pretty steep discount, so we ended up with 512Gb models (all that was available, and still cheaper than the smallest storage endowed 11) It's awesome having all of that space. I highly recommend it. Then the annoying thing that you have to deal with is the constant "your cloud storage is almost full..." messages. I do use iCloud a bit, but prefer to have my stuffed backed up locally.