I've been using iOS since back in the day when it was called "iPhone OS" (i.e. 1.0 - 3.0), and I recently realized that I've never done a full manual restore of my iPhone system state. Everything I've got on my device(s) have been carried with me through successive backups and upgrades and each new iPhone release since 2007. Call me crazy, but there's got to be a lot of junk in there gumming up the works. (For more on that topic, see this awesome thread on bit-rot:... Read more →

I was looking to free up some space on my hard drive and discovered my apps folder (/User/YOURUSERNAME/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications/) is taking up about a gig, largely due to a bunch of older versions of iPhone apps that are clearly no longer needed. Example: AIM.ipa AIM 1.ipa AIM 1.1.3.ipa AIM 2.ipa AIM 3.ipa AIM 4.ipa AIM 4.3.3.ipa AIM 5.ipa I don't use a TON of apps so I can only imagine that for some people that folder is going to be even larger than a gig.