minyak

#apple needs a better way to update #iOS software on "low"-capacity devices. I inherited a 128GB iPhone, and use iCloud Photos (Apple One).

iCloud Photos is set to optimise storage. I've tried for ½ hour to offload and delete apps. But the big gorilla is the 20GB space that photos takes up. When I disabled iCloud Photo syncing to this device, that space *increased* to 22GB. And when I reenabled iCloud Photo syncing, it increased further to 28GB (now 30GB), taking up space that I just freed up.

Updating through a Mac (Tahoe 26.1) doesn't work either, with a message that 26.0 is the latest version for my iPhone. 🙄

Dear Apple: maybe intelligently, temporarily remove photos, or 6GB of Apple Intelligence data, or offload apps for me, when updating software? This should be an operating system feature.

Nov 3 at 11:46pmWeb
Show threadminyakNov 4

4 hours after the earlier post, I randomly checked, and found that the space that Photos took up on my iPhone had fallen drastically to 12GB. So, now the iOS 26.1 update is downloading. Yay.

I guess that Apple Photos was doing some background thinking before re-syncing photos to/from phone.

#apple #iOS