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How do I get rid of Other space on my iPhone?

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Xylian

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Sep 28, 2009
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Hi,
I've bought an iPhone 5 few days ago, installed some apps, images and music for about 2 GB (out of the 16GB)... Now I already have about 1.3 GB of "Other" space used on the phone... how can I get rid of this space? Is there any way to understand what is this Other space? It is not good to have wasted 1.3 GB of space in such a few time without understanding what it is..

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
 
What a stupid I am, I've forgot that also the operating system is stored on the 16GBs of the phone.. But I have an important question.. Could there be some garbage in the "other space" apart from the OS and other useful data? Should I take care of that GBs, to try to keep the iPhone as clean as I can?
 
indianavtx said:
It's iOS. Remove that and your phone won't work.
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Mmm.. The operating system has already been counted.. In fact, the total space is about 14GB instead of 16GB, and in that 14GB of available space there is 1.3GB of Other Data.. So this other data should not count the iOS data, am I right?
 
Contacts
emails
iMessages
Call logs
Browser history
game saves

Will all take up space in your other. Try cleaning up some of that to see if it helps, Personally I think 16GB is too small these days.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Contacts
emails
iMessages
Call logs
Browser history
game saves

Will all take up space in your other. Try cleaning up some of that to see if it helps, Personally I think 16GB is too small these days.
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Yes, they're definitely too small... All the stuff you say can't sum up to 1.3GB of data in my case...
 
"Other" is certainly not just the OS. It can be all sorts of garbage, like texts, voicemails, mail, anything that can be stored in factory installed apps minus music and pics/videos. My wife's was 4.8 GB a few days ago (before I restored it).

Here's a good link:

http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/24/remove-other-data-storage-iphone-ipad/

My biggest question is what's "documents and data" and why's it taking up so much space especially when I have iCloud on and have tons is space there.

Another question I have: I own a 64 GB iPhone. Per Usage, I have used 54.1 GB and only have 3.0 GB available. So, my 64 GB iPhone can only hold 57.1. The OS is consuming 6.9 GB? That's downright Microsoftian.
 
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kas23 said:
Another question I have: I own a 64 GB iPhone. Per Usage, I have used 54.1 GB and only have 3.0 GB available. So, my 64 GB iPhone can only hold 57.1. The OS is consuming 6.9 GB? That's downright Microsoftian.
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Depends on whether your 64GB is base 2 or base. 10. Apple quote storage in their advertising in base 10, so you get 64,000,000,000 bytes. The OS quotes free space in base 2, so 64,000,000,000/(1024x1024x1024)=59.6046GB

Lose 2GB for the OS and that gives you 57GB of available storage. It's nothing new, hard disk manufacturers have done it ever since their marketing people realised it made their disks seam bigger if storage was quoted in base. 10.
 
Finally figured out how to remove 3GB of other space from my iPhone. I followed this guide: Remove Other Space from iPhone.

Basically what I did was remove a bunch of text messages because the pictures that are sent get stored in other. That removed about 300MB. Then I delted my iTunes backup and switched to iCloud backup. then i restarted my iphone and over 1GB was saved. The rest i did with PhoneClean.
 
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