IPad Mini storage question

hi
I have an iPad Mini with 12 GB storage. I keep getting a warning message about running out of space. I do a pretty good job of managing apps and data, and I couldn't believe that I had that much space taken up by either of them. So I totalled all the storage taken up by apps and files and I have just over 2 GB.
Does this mean that the iOS operating system is taking up the rest??
Is there somewhere on the Apple website we can get information on how much space the iOS takes up?
If that's the case then storage capacity is a misleading spec when buying iPads
thx
nick

I should have mentioned...that's where I always check the storage in the settings, and I can't figure out what's eating up all that storage because I've cleaned everything I can think of and can't account what's taking that much storage
are there other ways to check the storage?

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