Astonishing Amount of Other Storage

[whitesebi]

I have a staggering 9.21GB of Other storage, even though the biggest part of the iPhone's storage is apparently Messages with 500MB.

I feel like this might be solved elsewhere but I can't find anyone giving a concrete resolution.

Anyone have any advice, before I make a radical decision to do a restore as new?

Thanks! Seb

 

[fortheus]

most likely it's cached data. check media heavy apps and reinstall

eg: facebook, flipboard, etc

 

[henriknorem]

Connect to iTunes and sync. It might be data that didn't transfer properly.

 

[Deliro]

Do you have a lot of email accounts? Do your friends like to send stupid photos, vids, etc in email chains? I had an insane amount of email on my device until I changed some settings.