It just works

You see that’s what I said back in the days of 16GB iPhones. I don’t have much shit on my phone, barely 8GB. So I had more than enough space. Then I constantly got messages of running out of space. The. They bumped the base storage up to 32GB. Fine over kill for me but whatever. “You’re out of space. Please free up some space to download and install this update.”

My storage needs still hadn’t changed that much. Maybe got a few more songs.

Then it’s “you’re out of space we’ll unload some apps to iCloud then put it back after the install”

While I’m sitting here like “your system and other are taking up most of my storage.” Why don’t you get rid of some of that useless junk data.

I’ll bet $50 that there’s junk data from my iPhone 6s cache still even on my iPhone 12.

Now I’ve got 64GB and there’s at least 16GB of other and system data. That’s 25% of my storage taken up by what exactly?

Did you try using an iCloud backup and see if that restored them?

Because when you start running low on space for updates and being told "oh we're going to offload some apps to clear up space and then reinstall after the update"

Ok you have all this nonsense locked up in the cache that's probably months and months old and isn't needed anymore but the system won't purge old unnecessary files. Then it becomes a problem.

At least android lets you do this with a single button press in the settings.

The fact apple won’t acknowledge that this is an issue let alone fix it and you blame the end user for not buying higher storage space or external storage options is just laughable