Lumia-720 system size increasing

My Nokia Lumia-720 phone has windows-8.1 installed, initially system(OS) size was 2.75 GB out of the total phone memory of 8 GB . but after few days I could see that system (setting->system) has occupied 3.06 MB; and it is keep on increasing everyday. I am already having micro SD card of 16 GB for any app, photos, download etc in the phone.
I cleared the temp files, internet browser data from the phone but no change.
Can anyone pls suggest/provide solution for this issue?

Hi @ijaz144 ,
The only 'solution' when the phone is out of free space is a factory reset through Settings > About > Reset my phone.
Backup everything first, local documents and full-resolution photos and videos etc.
This is only relevant when the phone is actually out of free space and displays a warning - it is not relevant when the free space fluctuates and show some megabyte less than yesterday, with gigabytes of free space still.
The main concern and the only long-term solution is to investigate which apps store data on the phone. It only takes one bad behaving video or radio streaming app to fill up the phone storage over time - and not recover the free space even when uninstalling the app. Been there, done that, avoid installing the particular apps now.
Hans

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