Why does my iPhone 6 (12 GB) have so much storage taken up?

My 12 GB iPhone 6 has 11 GB of storage taken up, and the applications don't add up at all to the 11 takes up gigabytes, what's going on?

Cuz your a beanner

There's no 12GB iPhone…

Whoops, I meant 16 GB, sorry!

Most of it is for iOS.

Get the app Dr. Cleaner. Safe and reputable - from Trend Micro. It will scrub all those crumbs and leftovers off your phone and gain back for you quite a bit of storage. We both have the same phone as you - and the first few times you run this, it is STUNNING! After that we run it like once a week to keep things clean.

With any phone or computer, the stated storage is the "bare drive" / "bare flash" size.

The operating system and preinstalled apps/programs take some part of that. On a phone or tablet, it's typically 3 - 5GB depending on the make and model.

So on average you would have about 12GB free with a brand new "empty" 16GB phone.

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