So this has always been an issue, but one that used to occur over a fair amount of time. With iOS 8, "Other" expands at a ridiculous rate; my current iPad Air install has it pegged at 4.53GB and that was a totally clean install just a few days ago. This isn't a bad install or anything of the sort; I've tried several clean installs, and on earlier versions of the data I tried it on several different devices. Turned off photos, uninstalled Garageband because I had a ton of projects in progress. Nope, still the same.
Beta after beta, I assumed that this would be cleared up; moving back to iOS 7 proved that I wasn't crazy and the increase happened at a far slower pace, but the 8 GM showed that nothing had changed and this issue remained. Checking through my apps - even those that accrue a big amount of cached data - showed that there's nowhere near that amount to account for.
I thought it had something to do with the way Apple is caching iCloud Drive data, but not even that could explain such boat. I can only assume something is constantly re-downloading and not overwriting what was already there. It's pretty ridiculous that, at this rate of expansion, I'm going to need to buy a 64GB iPhone to just about have enough free storage in a couple of months time as I would on a 16GB previously.
How much storage does iTunes currently show your 'Other' data consuming?
Beta after beta, I assumed that this would be cleared up; moving back to iOS 7 proved that I wasn't crazy and the increase happened at a far slower pace, but the 8 GM showed that nothing had changed and this issue remained. Checking through my apps - even those that accrue a big amount of cached data - showed that there's nowhere near that amount to account for.
I thought it had something to do with the way Apple is caching iCloud Drive data, but not even that could explain such boat. I can only assume something is constantly re-downloading and not overwriting what was already there. It's pretty ridiculous that, at this rate of expansion, I'm going to need to buy a 64GB iPhone to just about have enough free storage in a couple of months time as I would on a 16GB previously.
How much storage does iTunes currently show your 'Other' data consuming?