I am using an iPhone 11 running iOS 18 Developer Beta 1. Recently, I've encountered a significant problem with my system storage. As of now, my system files are occupying 44 GB of my 128 GB drive, which is an excessive amount. Here's a detailed overview of the issue: Problem Description: My system files are consuming an unusually large amount of storage—44 GB out of 128 GB. Steps Taken: I attempted to resolve this by cleaning up my pictures, but the system file size continued to grow. I also tried clearing the caches, but this did not help. Error Messages: I haven't received any specific error messages, but some of my apps keep crashing intermittently. Frequency of the Issue: This issue is constant and does not seem to resolve on its own. Impact: I am unable to update or download new apps. I cannot download new pictures. I am unable to update to iOS 18 Developer Beta 2 due to insufficient space. Additional Information: The problem began around a week ago. At that time, the system files were around 10 GB, which was already concerning, but it has now ballooned to 44 GB. This storage issue is severely impacting the functionality of my iPhone, and I'm seeking assistance to identify the cause and find a solution.

Hello! I am having a serious problem with my iPad Pro 2018 64GB. I had to delete everything, from Photos to Music, to games, to apps. I left only my e-mails (around 0,8GB and work apps like Outlook, Teams, Authenticators). All this only to install the Beta 2 for iPadOS 18. The culprit: Other System Data which at some point it was 42GB. Plus the 12GB iPadOS itself....my 64GB memory is done for. How I am supposed to utilise my iPad in this conditions? I did the same thing with iPadOS 17 Beta, and never ever had this issue, the System Data memory was "flexible" as advertised. In this version, it is only growing larger and never going down. I have restarted the iPad like 10 times, it wasn't going down, only up. I am not going to Reset my entire iPad because it will take me forever to set it up again for my work (I work for a company with a lot of security measures and I need to redo them all after Reset, they are not saved in Cloud). I know Beta wasn't supposed to be all perfect and dandy, but Apple, please, make it at least usable for devices with 64GB memory, because you do offer support for them. If you don't, at least put a restriction and allow the 18 Beta to run only on devices with at least 128GB of memory. Even then, half of it to be utilised by system files that are not my choice to be there, seems like I pay that memory premium tax to increase your stock prices and not my peace of mind. Fix it because my 1000$ iPad is useless right now.

I’ve been trying to update my Macbook pro for a while now. I’m on version 10.14.6, I’ve been able to get away with not having enough storage for the newer updates but now it is unavoidable as my laptop is nearly unusable. My issue is that I do not have enough storage. I’ve done everything, deleted old files, cleared my trash, deleted apps, etc. Still, the two things taking up the majority of my storage are applications the laptop will not let me delete and the system itself. It’s become incredibly frustrating, especially since the majority of the apps that I can’t delete I don’t even use. Is there a way to bypass this? Or any other possible solution?

I am working on a social media app called "Aura Tracker" where people can add/subtract aura from people based off of their actions. I am new to app development so I don't know how to handle user accounts and aura value changing. Content view code: import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { ScrollView{ VStack { Text("Aura Tracker") Image(systemName: "sparkles") .imageScale(.large) .foregroundStyle(.yellow) Text("You have "+"#"+" aura") } } } } #Preview { ContentView() } Aura_TrackerApp code: import SwiftUI @main struct Aura_TrackerApp: App { var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() } } }

How do I clear my system data on my macbook as it is taking up a huge portion of my storage? I have already tried checking if my cache folder in ~/library was too big but it is only 7.42 GB. Also, I checked if time machine was on to find snapshots but it seems I have had it off for a while now and I didn't know. Could this be causing issues and should I have it on from now on? Please help I need more storage.

Anyone download this yet and have your system data **** up in size? Lesson learned to never download beta of anything. Can barely work in Xcode 16 now, another beta I should not have downloaded :/ Anyway to reduce this size of system data properly? Thanks!

How did the issue (probably) occur? The issue appeared in January 2024 after setting up a new Apple TV 4K (tvOS 16.X and updated to latest tvOS after setup) or a new Apple Watch Ultra 2 (watchOS 10.X and updated after setup). Both devices were set up using my personal iCloud and both were set up to use HomeKit. I suspect the issue is related to the creation of a new Home that was subsequently shared to a family member (see below). How did I notice the issue? From the week that followed, I noticed that my iPhone 15 Pro Max tends to get really hot in standby and that the battery drops significantly in the space of a couple standby hours. (Worst case I’ve experienced is about ~80% drop in 4 hours standby) Apple Watch also has huge drops in battery life. Again, to give some perspective: I wear my AW for sleep tracking, sometimes AW will drop ~5% throughout the night, sometimes ~60% (and turn off if it was charged below 60%, making me lose my sleep tracking). My iPad Pro occasionally loses ~30-50% charge over night in standby. I went to the Battery section of the Settings app on my iPhone and iPad and could notice that about 50-75% of the time (over 24h that is), Home Accessories is running in the background. I could not confirm this on Apple Watch as the battery section of Settings does not show per app usage, however clear drops in battery percentage are noticeable from the graph. What's the issue? Seeing the issue arise on three of my four portable Apple devices, I decided to go check on my MacBook Pro M1 Max in Activity Monitor if the same behaviour was to be seen. I quickly realised that the Home Daemon (homed) is permanently running in background at (unusual) high usage. It is the top entry in CPU usage and Uptime. Going into the Console app I can see that the homed daemon on macOS is throwing 3x-5x batches of the same 5 error messages each second. The errors are the following: In the same Console app, connecting to my iPhone and my iPad, I can see the exact same errors occurring at approximately the same rate. What is the issue in technical terms? My CloudKit HomeKit config (com.apple.homekit.config) container is bricked and returns an internal server error The homed/cloudd daemons do not have a backoff policy and retry fetching the CloudKit database instantly on failure. This leads to an infinite loop of network requests going out and draining my battery on all devices massively. How did I try to solve the issue? All these measures were unsuccessful: Restarting all devices All devices are on the latest version Deleting the Home app where possible Turning off Home, Keychain and iCloud Drive in iCloud settings Signing out of iCloud and signing in again Using the HomeKit Reset mobileconfig profile where possible (http://appldnld.apple.com/iOSProfiles/HomeKitReset.mobileconfig) Use the previously mentioned reset profile in combination with a HomeKit Architecture downgrade (http://appldnld.apple.com/iOSProfiles/KeepLegacyHome.mobileconfig) On macOS, delete ~/Library/HomeKit Sending sysdiags using the Feedback Assistant (FB13529370, still open) Manually revoking all (pending and accepted) home invitations and deleting all homes from the Home app Removing all Apple TVs and HomePods from my iCloud account Reseting and repairing Apple Watch Disabled Advanced Data Protection on iCloud Logging out of all my devices’ iCloud, use the reset profile, wait 20min, login to iCloud, the issue reappears in the console (while no other devices are logged in) Changing Apple ID password and choose to log out all devices, log in again into a single device, use the reset profile, wait 20min, and the issue reappears in the console To be absolutely sure it is an iCloud issue and not a local misconfiguration (that could be solved by resetting all my devices), I took an older iPhone 12 Pro and set it up as a new device with no apps/account/data, just a blank installation of iOS. As one would expect, the issue is not present and the Console app does not show any errors. As soon as I log into my iCloud account, the Home daemon homed throws the same 5 errors over and over and the battery draining issue magically appears. This confirms my theory that it is indeed an iCloud issue on the server-side and not a client-side issue. Reseting my devices would not help fix the issue as demonstrated by a blank iOS installation on a separate iPhone 12 Pro getting the same error just by logging into my iCloud account. I’ve had an Apple Support case for over five months, it has been (unsuccessfully) escalated twice to engineering. While many basic troubleshooting steps have been taken, nothing helped. Also, while the Apple Support agent is really trying their best to help me, they understand the symptoms of the problem but not the root cause which I tried explaining multiple times. Essentially we’re sticking to the Apple Support instructions they have, and doing basic diagnostics and battery troubleshooting even though I technically understand and can explain the issue to a CloudKit engineer. We even proceeded to do a fresh install of macOS on a separate volume and took diagnostics before and after login in with my Apple ID. They were able to confirm that there is indeed a massive battery drain issue related to my account. The case is still open but is currently leading nowhere, I'm just told to keep my devices updated... How Apple can fix the issue: Investigating the internal server error and fixing the record(s) or the CoreData entity that is throwing the problem Implementing a client-side backoff policy for internal server errors coming from iCloud. Quite trivially by reseting my com.apple.homekit.config container Also worth mentioning: I don’t use a VPN or any Proxy I’m fine with losing all my HomeKit-related data on my iCloud account. At this point I just want the issue to disappear and to have useable battery life on all my devices. I’m giving my consent to the immediate and irrevocable deletion of all my past and present HomeKit-related data.

Hi, when setting up our Core Data stack in our iOS app (manually, with a NSManagedObjectModel/Context & NSPersistentStoreCoordinator) we have reports a rare bug we haven't been able to reproduce. Occasionally when adding a persistent store we get a NSCocoaErrorDomain 256 error (NSFileReadUnknownError) with NSSQLiteErrorDomain=4618 in the user info. That's SQLITE_IOERR_SHMOPEN , which the SQLite docs describe this way: I/O error within the xShmMap method on the sqlite3_io_methods object while trying to open a new shared memory segment It seems to specifically /not/ be a SQLITE_FULL error. Do you know what type of issue can cause this? Or where/how I can start tracking this down?

Is there any good framework that can ease process of syncing strings, structs, bools across devices using icloud. Currently app doesn't use any cloud functionality. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I'm working on a virtual furniture placement app. I have used Object Placement example, and wonder if is possible to backup a anchor to cloud or share anchor to another device which will let users to view the same model in the same place? Thanks

I'm experiencing an issue with WKWebView and localStorage. I've set up a standard WKWebView with the configuration: configuration.websiteDataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.default() Everything works fine in the emulator (iOS 16.x, 17.0), but on my iPhone 13 running iOS 17.4, I encounter a problem. When I set a localStorage value on my local HTML page, navigate to another URL within the webview, and then return to the original page, the localStorage is cleared. This behavior is new and wasn't happening before. Has anyone else encountered this or have any suggestions on how to fix it? The localstorage should be persistent as it always has been.

I'm trying to integrate the option to the player to save their data in the cloud, I integrate the CloudKit, change some stuff to make it work and build in Xcode to my phone. But when I try to integrate the CloudSave, 50 unnasigned symbols jump,like this one: Undefined symbol: _CKContainer_Default I managed to fix them by updating the recommended settings for Xcode. But then 4 more errors appear: Sandbox: il2cpp(12538) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/Username/Test Apple Kit 2022/Build/Il2CppOutputProject/IL2CPP/build/deploy_arm64/il2cpp So, don't let me build and I've looked everywhere but no one seems to had this same error

CoreData: Zone metadata is missing it's encoded share data but is marked for a mutation: <CKRecordZoneID: 0x600003f044e0; zoneName=com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.share.30BE5FAE-3FE0-4142-90C4-E78FFA90B2A2, ownerName=defaultOwner> - <decode: bad range for [%@] got [offs:312 len:1242 within:0]>

Hello Everyone, This is regarding recent upgrade issue on my iPhone. I am still struggling to get access to my iCloud storage data for iMessages, Notes with password, Health related stats, etc. I would like to explain chronology of the entire event. There was a recent IOS 17.4.1 update came on April 07th, 2024. I clicked on the update but nothing happened then suddenly my phone passcode wasn’t working. I restarted my phone then the phone was not even accepting my face id. I went to the Apple store. Apple support team have requested me to reset (erase entire data) iPhone which I had already done on next day. I had no others options actually. My phone passcode was not working in reality due to iso update because I haven’t changed my passcode since more than a year. It is also not due to iPhone screen issue which apple team was saying to me initially. Unfortunately, my Apple ID credentials wasn’t working after phone reset so I had to put my Apple ID on recovery mode which took almost 15days to recover even though process is automated as per apple support team which they can’t reduce it. I understand that they are doing for privacy reason but who wants such privacy when even owner can’t access his own account for 15days. I offered them to verify my personal details such as email ID, phone number, passport number and any other details which they can use to expedite the process but they didn’t help on this. At end of the recovery (after 15days), they used same details i.e. my email ID and SMS on my registered number to verify. I don’t understand their logic but if they can take 2-3 business working days for same process then it makes sense to wait rather than 15days. After I regained access to my apple id, I have restored everything using my iCloud storage. I observed that few applications such as contacts, WhatsApp, etc. are restored properly but some of the applications such as iMessage, Notes (specifically locked notes), health data were not restored. iMessage are not synchronizing with iCloud storage when I tried to do it manually too in setting >> apple id>> iCloud >> show all >> messages in iCloud >> sync now. Nothing happens after clicking on it. Locked notes are still showing an error message “Can’t view Note. ‘This note can’t be viewed because encryption key wasn’t found in iCloud keychain. Resetting your end-to-end encrypted data can cause this’”. I have never used custom password to lock note instead I was using Face ID earlier to lock or unlock some of notes. All these things are happening because it is asking for old iPhone passcode to connect with iCloud storage while resetting my iPhone. I am trying to enter all the previous passcodes. a. When I entered correct passcode, then there is no error but still applications are not synchronizing with iCloud storage. b. When I enter incorrect passcodes (multiple passcodes but one at a time) then it gives an error “Verification failed”. It means it is detecting correct passcode as per above point. There is some issue with passcode synchronization with iCloud storage. I have opened a case with apple support team but meanwhile If any one of you had faced similar problem, then kindly suggest ways to me so I will regain access to some important personal information which are present in my iCloud storage. I would like to inform everyone that don’t rely completely on single brand or product. Take multiple backups may be on personal laptops, SSDs, etc. I learnt a lesson that even apple products, software & services are not reliable so think before buying costly products just for sake of brand name.

We use UserDefaults in our app to identify if we already showed a particular UI to the user (so that it will not be shown to the user again). Our logic goes something like: if !UserDefaults.standard.alreadyShownToUser { showUI() UserDefaults.standard.alreadyShownToUser = true } But there are users who see this particular screen again when they open the app. The screen does not show up for a few days, and then suddenly, it shows up again. Our theory is that this might have something to do with iOS Prewarming. So we updated our code to add another check: if UIApplication.shared.isProtectedDataAvailable && !UserDefaults.standard.alreadyShownToUser However, it does NOT seem to work / mitigate the issue at all. We also added logs to check the value of UIApplication.shared.isProtectedDataAvailable and the value of the UserDefaults variable. We expected that if: UIApplication.shared.isProtectedDataAvailable is false, then the UserDefaults value should also be false. But in our logs, we can see that UIApplication.shared.isProtectedDataAvailable is false, but UserDefaults still returned true. Which led me to think that UserDefaults is not affected by Prewarming. Now, I'm back from the start. What's causing our UserDefaults to have different value? We also do not have anywhere else in the app that sets the value of UserDefaults.standard.alreadyShownToUser to false. The only time it should have that value is when the user installs the app for the first time. I appreciate any help that can lead me to fix this issue. Thank you!

Hello everyone, I followed this (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/quick-start/swiftdata/how-to-sync-swiftdata-with-icloud) guide from Paul Hudson on how to sync swiftdata with iCloud. I tried it on my device directly and it worked exactly as I would expect. Now I tried the same version of the app on another device installed through TestFlight external tester group. It no longer works. When deleting the app, the alert reads "Deleting this app will also delete its data, but any documents or data will be stored in iCloud will not be deleted" so the app should have said something in iCloud. When looking in Settings -> Your Name -> iCloud -> Manage Account Storage, on the working device I can see around 300 KB saved in iCloud, on the other device my app is not listed. Both have a fast and working internet connection, almost fully charged, low data mode turned off, running 17.4.1, Background modes enabled, Mobile data enabled, more than enough unused iCloud storage and plenty of time to sync. I was streaming the logs from the Cloudkit dashboard but nothing appeared there. The data saved neither syncs to another device of the same apple id nor reappears after app removal. The model Container is initialized without any configuration, the only relationship is optional and every value has a default value. There is A LOT of log noise when launching the app and I am unable to get any meaningful information from that. I can only get the log from the device where it is working as expected. I have triple checked that it is exactly the same app version and no debug conditions anywhere. I have absolutely no idea what is causing this. Thanks for any help :)

In the system of iOS17, I store the login information through NSUserDefaults, but after the application is closed, I open it again, and the information stored in NSUserDefaults does not exist. I have not found the specific reason. I did not find this problem in the system before ios 17. This issue only appeared after iOS 17.

I have app that is using container for small settings data and iCloud for larger storage, but I also want to be able to save to local documents folder. When I do that the url that is created is not local docs, but: path: file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/85A8B8C9-C0C3-4843-A74C-5A951F593790/Documents/Dialog08:45,%2022%20Feb%202024 Here is code using to save to local docs folder. func saveDataToFile(data: String) { //file will be datetimedialog let formatter = DateFormatter() formatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm, d MMM y" var dateTime = Date.getCurrentDate() dateTime = formatter.string(from: Date.now) var saveFilename = "Dialog" saveFilename.append(dateTime) let path = getDocumentsDirectory().appendingPathComponent(saveFilename) print("path: \(path)") // let fileURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: data, relativeTo: path) do { try data.write(to: path, atomically: true, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8) } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } } func getDocumentsDirectory() -> URL { let paths = FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask) return paths[0] }

im trying to delete a file but it says "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -43.)" please help.

Hello! I'm in the process of creating an app for iOS. A part of the app relies on data that is collected as the user uses the app. This data is then stored in a .CSV file for easy storage, retrieval, and a small size even if it grows larger than expected. The data is really simple and easy to traverse, however it won't be stored on a remote database, and only locally on the user's device. I've read that updating the app doesn't overwrite the data of the current version, but instead places the new version of the app in a new directory entirely while the other, older version is then deleted. Is it possible to mark certain files to be transferred and not replaced entirely? I'd like to know if it's possible or not before I make the mistake and learn the hard way 😅 Also I'm open to any alternative ways to store such data that people may suggest! Thanks a lot in advance! Help is much appreciated Jack