Ex Apple Employee Spills Secret How Apple Tricks You Into Buy New Phones

A man who says he's a former Apple employee is going viral for revealing a secret thing that happens in iPhones that makes people buy new iPhones before they really need to. The man explains there is a bug in the iOS (the phone's operating system) that they won't fix because it fills up the storage on your phone.

He says people that don't know about the bug will often buy a new iPhone because they are out of storage.

“They don’t realize that if they just backed up to iTunes or iCloud, wiped their phone, then restored it from their backup, that they could get all their data back and all of a sudden magically have 20% more free space.” he said.

Here's the way to get around it that he explained:

“They don’t realize that if they just backed up to iTunes or iCloud, wiped their phone, then restored it from their backup, that they could get all their data back and all of a sudden magically have 20% more free space.”

Reactions in the comments run the gamut.

I delete all my apps , shut down & then reinstall and I get my space back An ex apple employee told me that

Bro wild eyed and dropping knowledge here. But who buys a new phone when their memory fills up?

His response: 😂 Love it. You'd be surprised. We saw it all the time when I worked at Apple.

One said, 💁🏻‍♀️Ah, I think I’m the problem with my 40,000 pictures . Hi it’s me, I’m the problem it’s me.

And because we're a divided world, many said something like this:

💁🏻‍♀️Ah, I think I’m the problem with my 40,000 pictures . Hi it’s me, I’m the problem it’s me.