Not sure if it was the same bug, but I had a storage issue where System Data ballooned to like 200GB.
It had the most bizarre solution; airplane mode, set time to one year in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to 6mo in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to now, reboot. Went from 200GB to like 15GB. Was ridiculous.
(For anyone looking at this and considering doing it, you also need to ensure iMessage retention is forever, otherwise the iPhone will think it's a year old and delete the messages)
> Not sure if it was the same bug, but I had a storage issue where System Data ballooned to like 200GB.
> It had the most bizarre solution; airplane mode, set time to one year in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to 6mo in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to now, reboot. Went from 200GB to like 15GB. Was ridiculous.
I've had the same problem on my iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 17, but the "set time to the future" trick didn't work. I'd already deleted plenty of apps, and was almost considering getting a new iPhone with more storage.
I had to install Filza, write a script to figure out what was consuming the most storage, and delete a few directories:
I just checked again, and uuidtext and coresymbolicationd still seem to be bloating up in size. But the problems could also have been fixed in iOS 18/26 — I'm just not upgrading yet, because I like my semi-jailbreak.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, that was my exact issue. I only had a 128 GB iPhone 12 though and System Data had eaten up over 60 GB. As I cleared off more apps and data it would just eat up the excess.
The internet seems full of various wild fixes, but I could afford an upgrade so saved myself the hassle of futzing.
Thanks for sharing this. I personally use vim and not neovim (I do not have anything against it), so this plugin will be a great addon for me. Currently, I have to switch from vim to Cursor and back again for any kind of vibe coding.
The vast majority of the web apps in those launch directories were built using some sort of AI tool, also there are certain fingerprints you can use to confirm some tools, like Lovable, V0, etc.
Have you tried llama.vscode [0]? I use the vim equivalent, llama.vim [1] with Qwen3 Coder 30B and personally feel that it's better than Copilot. I have hot keys that allow me to quickly switch between the two and find myself always going back to local.
This year I redid my whole lab as well and prioritized declarative everything so it'd be easy to go from scratch if needed. So I've got nix to create RKE2 images with cloud-init for XCP-ng templates, Terraform with XenOrchestra provider, and ArgoCD for the K8s cluster.
I've got two R640's so I can live migrate, and an R720XD with TrueNAS (democratic-csi for K8s persistence). QSFP (40Gb) for TrueNAS / R720XD, and SFP+ (10Gb) for R640's linked to a Brocade ICX 6610.
So I can update the hosts, and K8 nodes with 0 downtime. Do I need it? No, but I learned a lot and had / have fun deploying and maintaining it.
It had the most bizarre solution; airplane mode, set time to one year in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to 6mo in the future, reboot, wait a few minutes, set time to now, reboot. Went from 200GB to like 15GB. Was ridiculous.
(For anyone looking at this and considering doing it, you also need to ensure iMessage retention is forever, otherwise the iPhone will think it's a year old and delete the messages)
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