Even after all of this, it shows 11.56 GB used and only 1.24 GB free. I don't have very many apps on the phone, so I assume this is mostly used by iOS. Does this sound reasonable?
That sounds about "normal". On my iPhone with 16 GB, about 4 GB is consumed by the iOS and related stuff. Hence, a total of about 12 GB for user consumption.
My biggest offender at 800+ MB is Photos and I only have 236 photos on the iPhone. Of that about 12% is Photostream, Apple's "automatic" cloud saver. Photos can be deleted from Photostream, however.
What I am noticing is that apps that used to be "small" are now just large; 100+ MB. These are apps you would think only need to provide access to a server (e.g., banking) but still seem to be large. I think new model iPhones now start at 32 GB for this and other reasons.
