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I am unable to copy files onto my iPhone using OS X because it says the phone is full. As you can see the iPhone Storage page on the device shows 120GB of free space.

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I am trying to fill it with large media files as a work around for the huge backups it is making. My theory is that if I fill it with files it will have to remove any caches of iCloud photos. Then I'll delete the media files and make a smaller backup before the Photos app pulls any more photos down. iCloud is currently saying it as 183GB of photos stored there.

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  • is there anything else in the waiting line that your MacBook and/or iCloud want(s) to sync?
    – needlol
    Commented Oct 13, 2021 at 16:23
  • @needlol not that I know of. Just this week I bumped my iCloud subscription from 200GB to 2TB as another futile attempt to get around this mess. It's still sitting there at 191GB used
    – Craig
    Commented Oct 13, 2021 at 19:01
  • Have you tried disconnecting it from your iCloud? You could try turning off services before doing a complete logout.
    – needlol
    Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 2:51
  • I turned off iCloud photos, didn't help because it seemed to pull all the photos on to the phone. Then I turned it back and it spent ~20 hours updating them back to iCloud
    – Craig
    Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 3:03
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    it's the 3rd last resort... the 2nd last is to do a full restore and the last is to set up everything from scratch... ohhhh I've been places with that... hope you get it solved before. but don't throw money in their throat needlessly.. cancle the 2tb subscription if not needed 😬
    – needlol
    Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 12:05

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