After deleting a bunch of movies in Infuse (latest version) on my 256GB iPad Pro 10.5 running iPadOS 16, the movies are gone, but the space is not released. It showed 77GB of “Other System Data”.
I then went into Settings → General → iPad Storage and deleted the Infuse app + all data, which still had another 70GB of movies in it. The app and the data is gone, but now “Other System Data” swelled to 148GB.
Rebooting the iPad multiple times did not allow me to recover that space.
Any other ideas apart from resetting and restoring from backup?
I did restore from backup and that reclaimed the missing space.
Frankly, this is not an app issue, but an iPad OS issue - maybe a fringe use case, but should have been caught during QA in what they call betas (and I call alphas).
Just another example why if a certain Apple device is needed to pay for your shoes, you should not upgrade until well into 2023 (my target upgrade date has always been the night of the Oscar’s)
The thing is that this is something that keeps happening in some cases for several years.
I agree that this is an issue with the operating system, but it is an issue that has been part of the system for many years, it is not something that was introduced with the latest release.
