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Is 8GB of "other" normal?

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Lashae

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Hi, I have an iPhone 6 Plus and i'm wondering if the amount of "other" I have is normal, or if there's some problem.

I have 32 apps that take up 1.8 GB, two photos that take up 29MB, even though there's only one photo in my photos app, Documents & Data, which I don't know what that is, it takes up 62.7 MB, and then there's the "other" that takes up 8.4 GB. I know the other is necessary, but that seems like an awful lot for someone who doesn't have a lot of stuff on my phone. Is there something wrong?
 
Lashae said:
Hi, I have an iPhone 6 Plus and i'm wondering if the amount of "other" I have is normal, or if there's some problem.

I have 32 apps that take up 1.8 GB, two photos that take up 29MB, even though there's only one photo in my photos app, Documents & Data, which I don't know what that is, it takes up 62.7 MB, and then there's the "other" that takes up 8.4 GB. I know the other is necessary, but that seems like an awful lot for someone who doesn't have a lot of stuff on my phone. Is there something wrong?
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A lot of us are experiencing something similar where other keeps filling. Keep an eye on it if it keeps expanding you have a problem. 8gb sounds very excessive through.
 
could it be pictures in your messages app or cached info from twitter, rss? my "other" is a hair above 2gb, and i think that's a lot.
 
siurpeeman said:
could it be pictures in your messages app or cached info from twitter, rss? my "other" is a hair above 2gb, and i think that's a lot.
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That's what I thought, I deleted all my message threads, and deleted then reinstalled my twitter app, I don't use rss.

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Wbutchart said:
A lot of us are experiencing something similar where other keeps filling. Keep an eye on it if it keeps expanding you have a problem. 8gb sounds very excessive through.
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Every time I sync it to my computer (pretty rare) the other goes up, at least I'm not the only one experiencing it. :confused:

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GoingDark said:
John Gruber of Daring Fireball linked to this article that has an explanation for excessively large "Other" storage:

http://hammonwry.com/mysterious-other/
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Thank you for this.
So, it's an Apple problem, hopefully they fix it... SOON!
 
I don't know if you have Facebook app or not but that damn app is a space hog! Over time Facebook cache images and other things at least that's in my case, and I'm still trying to find out what other app stores cache.

I've had 6gb of this "other" data back when I had my iPhone 4 but the issue is gone after I backup/sync everything in my computer then to the iCloud. At first I made a mistake and set it to backup to my MacBook. I didn't let it finish and cancel the sync then the storage doubles and it ended up showing "Over Capacity by 5.3GB". The fix I did was backing up to my computer without interrupting it and set my phone back to sync all important data to iCloud. After that the "other" data went from showing over capacity of 5.3GB which it doesn't include the 6GB of the "other" to 289MB
 
DARKiLLUSiON said:
I don't know if you have Facebook app or not but that damn app is a space hog! Over time Facebook cache images and other things at least that's in my case, and I'm still trying to find out what other app stores cache.

I've had 6gb of this "other" data back when I had my iPhone 4 but the issue is gone after I backup/sync everything in my computer then to the iCloud. At first I made a mistake and set it to backup to my MacBook. I didn't let it finish and cancel the sync then the storage doubles and it ended up showing "Over Capacity by 5.3GB". The fix I did was backing up to my computer without interrupting it and set my phone back to sync all important data to iCloud. After that the "other" data went from showing over capacity of 5.3GB which it doesn't include the 6GB of the "other" to 289MB
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I don't have the facebook app, got rid of it a long time ago.

I tried what you did and it didn't help, thanks though.
 
Lashae said:
Hi, I have an iPhone 6 Plus and i'm wondering if the amount of "other" I have is normal, or if there's some problem.

I have 32 apps that take up 1.8 GB, two photos that take up 29MB, even though there's only one photo in my photos app, Documents & Data, which I don't know what that is, it takes up 62.7 MB, and then there's the "other" that takes up 8.4 GB. I know the other is necessary, but that seems like an awful lot for someone who doesn't have a lot of stuff on my phone. Is there something wrong?
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Instructions on how to recover space below:

http://support.digidna.net/hc/en-us/articles/203504083-The-Complete-Restore-Guide-to-Deleting-Unwanted-iPhone-Other-Storage-Usage
 
Lashae said:
I've taken these steps too, still nothing. :(

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I downloaded the app Battery Doctor and ran the Clean Up Cache multiple times and that freed up around 2GB, but there's 6.9GB left, that still seems like a lot to me.
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Did you try to restore as NEW?
 
I ended up restoring to factory settings, then doing a restore form iCloud backup. I didn't lose any of my info or stats, and my "other" is down to 1.8.

That's much more like it.
 

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Everyone should submit a bug report to Apple using bugreport.apple.com

You do NOT need a developer account for this...you can login using your normal iTunes email and password. The more attention that we give Apple with this issue, the more likely there is to be a fix.

I noticed that Facebook likes to cache a TON of data, but it never clears. Deleting and reinstalling the application seems to do it temporarily though.
 
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