You need a 3rd Party programme to analyse the space.
http://www.imobie.com/support/what-is-the-other-on-my-iphone.htm
http://www.imobie.com/support/what-is-the-other-on-my-iphone.htm
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'Other' file on 8.0.2 is 3GB!
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While this may be an annoying situation, from your screenshot, it appears that you are not hurting for space right now. Live with it (I have 3.4GBs of Other)
Live with it? Nice!
My iPhone after restore had 7gb free, with little downloaded it is now at 600mb, soon I will have to restore it again to regain that space. According to you (and it seems Apple) a messed up device is fine as long as it has a
on it?Perhaps app,e should stop saying it...just...works
To yeah it's not great but
live....with....it?So they have developed an operating system that leeches memory for no use until device is unusable? That sounds entirely reasonable
Why can't some apple users accept or admit that Apple have screwed up. To argue they have intentionally done this is utterly mind boggling!
So they have developed an operating system that leeches memory for no use until device is unusable? That sounds entirely reasonable
Why can't some apple users accept or admit that Apple have screwed up. To argue they have intentionally done this is utterly mind boggling!
It's leeching memory too?
How about you or the OP, send it to Apple as a bug? Instead of whining about it on a 3rd party forum. It might do you a bit of good. You never know.So they have developed an operating system that leeches memory for no use until device is unusable? That sounds entirely reasonable
Why can't some apple users accept or admit that Apple have screwed up. To argue they have intentionally done this is utterly mind boggling!
The "other" space is for the NSA to store their monitoring software on our phones. I know this because I read it on the internet.
No. I read that the other is for structural integrity, to stop "bendgate". The more data on the phone, the harder it is to bend it.
How do you know they haven't already? And a user-to-user forum is where I would expect to see someone post their issues to see if other users are experiencing the same thing and how they have been able to solve it.
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It is definitely not normal. My iPad "other" immediately after a restore with no other data is about 700MB. With nothing on the device. It just sitting after an hour it grows to over 1GB. And it will continue to grow. On my iPhone 6 after a restore other is about 750MB and mine has ballooned to 2GB within an hour of the restore with no data to added. I've restored my phone serval times in th roast couple of weeks because it keeps growing.
Before iOS 8, my iPad and iPhone 5s' "other" was a touch over 1GB and it never randomly grew. I will check my free space, put the phone down for an hour and come back and 300MB randomly disappeared. I've cleaned caches, I've used phone clean and a bunch of other little things. Nothing works. The memory just vanishes.
It's not the point if you have plenty of memory left. I have 30GB free but when I see several hundred MB disappear in an hour without touching the phone something is wrong. There is absolutely no reason anyone should have to live with a bug that uses free storage space for no purpose.
There is absolutely no reason that it would work that way. The other after a fresh restore is exactly how it's suppose to be, around 700MB. If there is nothing on the device, it should stay around 700MB. If you start adding text messages, Safari history and stuff like that, sure it will grow. But 3.21GB is not normal. That's the worst I have seen and I thought mine was bad with 300MB just randomly disappearing in an hour.
To save on building new data centers Apple is now storing iCloud server data on people's phones, since they're always on and LTE is fast enough to serve up the data, they're a great solution. Don't worry you're not being charged and if the space gets too low they'll free it up as needed on their own.
I disagree, slightly. You cannot simply complain in a web forum and expect Apple to know what is happening. They likely do, but it helps more to report it as a bug. Discussing it here is definitely worthwhile, but doing nothing outside of that is not helpful. People should report these things straight to Apple. This thread is riddled with rudeness and it began with the OP's responses. Frustration with this issue is definitely evident, but some of the replies have been quite useful to me and likely to others.
The only reasons that I have been able to deduce over the several years of iOS use, your "other" would be that high without this bug is if you download a lot of music or videos to your device and don't clear the purchases using iFunBox, or if you send a lot of videos and pictures through iMessages and never clear out your message strings.
Otherwise, "other" should never be higher than 1.5GB and even then I don't know where that 1.5GB is coming from.
This. Even if not sending a lot of pics/vids, if one wants to hang onto every text they've sent, it adds up (just text and overhead of the SQLite database that stores it all).
And OS itself counts in there. E-Mails. I believe other media such as eBooks and Newsstand subscriptions count. System caches. Optimized PDF, image, et al downloaded files. Recall reading one person had remnants of some games they had played in the past (ate about 1.5GB). Guessing voice memos are in there as well. Ditto voicemails. Maybe podcasts (I've got close to a gig there).
On iPhone, eating just over 3GB in other, iPad, over 9GB, where I have all my Newsstand magazines that I've been negligent about reading and some items in my iBooks.
Podcasts are stored as "Audio" files on my phone and are counted in the Music/Audio section. This also includes voice memos and tones. Voicemail on the other hand, I do not know.
OP - I've looked into my OTHER space on my devices too, and run into a few culprits. A couple questions.
#1. Do you have iCloud setup on the account? Do you have iCloud Drive or anything like that turned on?
#2. You mentioned you have 35 Apps installed. Have you opened any of the apps after installing them after your restore? Are any of them Magazine apps by chance? I know I have a few magazine apps (like Consumer Reports), and each magazine that's downloaded to the device is like 800MB-1GB in size, and it gets lumped under the OTHER space bucket. Also book apps use that space too, if you've downloaded books. I also have a PDF Annotation app that loads the PDF's to the device locally, and that uses OTHER space. I think Dropbox does too. Anything like that on your device? If it's an app that "syncs", all you need to do is open it once, and it could download the data from the cloud.
My first thought would be it's an Apps "extra" data. My suggestion would be, start deleting apps, one by one, and see if the OTHER space shrinks after each delete.
When you go to Settings -> General -> Usage -> Manage Storage, can you capture a screenshot of the Apps it shows as the top users of space, and post the pic? Maybe that will help us see what's installed, and what the culprit could be.
That's where I would start. Hope you figure it out, and hope this helps!
#1. Do you have iCloud setup on the account? Do you have iCloud Drive or anything like that turned on?
#2. You mentioned you have 35 Apps installed. Have you opened any of the apps after installing them after your restore? Are any of them Magazine apps by chance? I know I have a few magazine apps (like Consumer Reports), and each magazine that's downloaded to the device is like 800MB-1GB in size, and it gets lumped under the OTHER space bucket. Also book apps use that space too, if you've downloaded books. I also have a PDF Annotation app that loads the PDF's to the device locally, and that uses OTHER space. I think Dropbox does too. Anything like that on your device? If it's an app that "syncs", all you need to do is open it once, and it could download the data from the cloud.
My first thought would be it's an Apps "extra" data. My suggestion would be, start deleting apps, one by one, and see if the OTHER space shrinks after each delete.
When you go to Settings -> General -> Usage -> Manage Storage, can you capture a screenshot of the Apps it shows as the top users of space, and post the pic? Maybe that will help us see what's installed, and what the culprit could be.
That's where I would start. Hope you figure it out, and hope this helps!
I'm not the one with a million angry emoticons in my post.
All I was getting at is when someone is trying to help you troubleshoot with their own free time, calling them bro and dismissing your attempt to clarify is a bit off-putting.
OTHER file on 8.0.2 is 3GB by this morning!!
clean install last night, DFU restore.
no backups.
no iCloud restores or anything. FRESH.
only 35 apps totaling 1.35 GB.
no photo stream or anything. no music, OR email accounts.
WTF is taking 3.21 GB of space?! I cannot figure it out and its pissing me off wasting valuable space. and its NOT the OS system itself, that space was already formatted and accounted for.
I have the exact same problem. Tried all of the suggested, but 'other' just keeps on growing.
