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+the ios 18 developer beta 1 wiped my iphone ! kind of.
+
+the first few days of having the beta installed was fine—great, even;
+however, two days ago, my phone started slowing down on the simplest tasks,
+which coincided with system crashes.
+
+these crashes weren't just simple ones that required a quick reboot to
+fix. they were ones where the phone would halt to a small loading icon for
+a few seconds, then to a black screen for a few minutes, then to the apple
+icon for a few minutes, then back to the home screen.
+
+the crashes were accompanied by what i assume to be the entire icon cache
+to be wiped as well, since on boot, i would be met by a load of placeholder
+icons and no app titles on my home screen. some sort of other caches must have
+been affected as well, because many apps' settings were wiped, alongside the
+affected icons and titles. at the same time, many apps' settings stayed, too,
+oddly ! my educated guess is that these apps store their local configuration
+in a different manner.
+
+today, i had no crashes at all, so i was under the assumption that my problems
+have vanished, but i spoke too soon ! my first crash of the day was a big
+one. it was followed by the same hard-crash symptoms i mentioned before,
+but it also happened to wipe a lot more than just icon and local settings
+caches. this crash cleared my open tabs on safari, logged me out of multiple
+apps, brought on the same cache wipes as above, and i'm guessing much more
+that i haven't fully disconvered yet.
+
+the good news is that i don't keep local data on my phone—or rather,
+i don't keep important local data on my phone. all my files are commited
+to icloud, all of my device backups are present icloud, and i don't use my
+mobile device for important things. it's a tool, not a workstation.
+
+now starts part two of this adventure !
+
+before i bricked my iphone for good, i wanted to go ahead and either revert
+to ios 17, or update to a more stable release of the ios 18 developer
+beta. thankfully, beta 2 had been released two days ago. this is likely just
+a coincidence, but these nasty bugs actually begin on the day of beta 2's
+release. (queue tinfoil hat)
+
+anyway, from what i was able to find, beta 2 was somewhat more stable that
+beta 1. that's good news. the bad news is that i don't have enough storage
+on my device.
+
+i needed to sacrifice something for some space, and that something was
+wuthering waves. sitting at 17 gigabytes, i wiped wuthering waves, which
+should have given me plenty enough extra space to install the beta 2 update,
+given that it only needed an additional 15 gigabytes of total storage to
+install, but i was informed that i had been lacking the required available
+storage to install the update, regardless of my actions ....
+
+i thought that this was some sort of storage calibration bug, so i restarted
+my iphone, but i was still unable to update.
+
+it turns out that the "system data" portion of my device's storage was the
+culprit, and was reading something in the order of 30 gigabytes. this value
+should be closer to 1–2 gigabytes, and can maybe reach up to 5 gigabytes
+in rare cases. i'm not sure exactly where it was sitting before i uninstalled
+wuthering waves, but after i did uninstall wuthering waves, the "system data"
+promptly expanded itself to fill up the reset of that newly freed 17 gigabytes
+of storage.
+
+i'm not sure what "system data" actually means, but it must be a fluctuative
+set of data, as i was observing it dancing around the 25–30 gigabyte range,
+back and forth, sometimes by megabytes, sometimes gigabytes. one second it'd
+be 25.3, then 25.36, then 29.3.
+
+the best idea i could come up with was to see if i could beat it in time
+by restarting my device and requesting an update as soon as i could after
+reaching boot.
+
+attempt one: i could not beat it in time.
+
+attempt two: i did beat it in time ! after this success, i requested an
+update, which went through, but was stuck on "requesting update", or some
+thing along those lines, for many minutes. after backing in and out of the
+menu, i was once again prompted to free up more storage, and the "system data"
+had once again expanded to occupy the free space.
+
+attempt three: i actually, fully beat "system data" this time, but with a
+small bump. the update medium actually pre-downloaded, or whatever apple
+does with updates before actually intalling the update, but i was informed
+with a similar "more storage required" screen. this screen was requesting an
+additional 5 gigabytes of storage. i backed in and out of the menu to see if
+i could trick the update to go through, or get "system data" to budge, and
+i actually got the value down to 3.11 gigabytes ! since initially getting it
+to come down, i haven't had any success to get it to force itself any furthur.
+
+i imagine that the "system data" and the beta 2 update process are having a
+land war of sorts, where the "system data" is trying its best to eat every
+last byte, while the update process is trying to do the same. my guess is
+that the update process just needs a little help. surely, the "system data"
+doesn't actually have a consistent byte munching agenda, while the update
+process actually is forcefully pushing back.
+
+as of this time, i am still stuck at an additional 3.11 gigabytes required
+to install the beta 2 update, even after offloading ~400 megabytes of
+applications. i'll test out some more fixes and report back if i have any
+updates !
+
+update one: after a restart, i was able to get the update to go through
+first try ! as soon as i clicked the update now button, i was locked into
+a prompt which read "verifying update". given this reading, i'm not so sure
+if that 3.11 gigabyte additional resource request was fibbing, or that the
+update was so close to completely downloaded, that this "verifying update"
+prompt deployed some additional troops to fight off the "system data" regime.
+
+the update is slowly going through, and has reached approximately 1/4
+progress complete after 3–4 minutes of waiting. i'll report back on any
+furthur developments !
+
+update two: it's up ! i'm not going to sit on my phone here for hours and
+hours to test it all out and see if it's still having the same issues, but
+from my about 30 second test, it seems fine. i'll report back after about
+a good day's use, or if i hit any of the same bugs.
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+{
+  "posts": {
+    "2024_06_27": {
+      "name": "June 27th, 2024"
+    }
+  }
+}