Other Space Cleared

[FruityLoop]

Hey guys,

I just stumbled upon a solution for that old other space thingy problem..

and here we go;

Log out of your iCloud Accounts, log back in.. and.. voilà 😁😇😊

Good to go

..
I hope it might help one or the other

I'm fairly new here


Have the most pleasant of days

 

[MBAir2010]

lets see of this clear 5gb of other system data cache on the ipad....
(which is trype because everything is cleared out!)

NOPE

that did nothing, and had to act quick to make sure the pig icloud did not sync photos off the ipad.
so be careful those who are trying to get away from false security.

this whole ipad-storage-icloud was a huge nosebleed this week.
thanks to sandisk and that lightning to usb drive going down to 27.3 mb from over 32gb of icloud was easier.

 

[sparksd]

Nope. 23GB of other still on 12 Pro Max, 14.5GB on iPad Pro (both 14.5.1).

 

[ApfelKuchen]

Certainly iCloud can be responsible for a fair amount of "Other," both on iOS and Mac - especially after any kind of significant activity - activating a particular iCloud service for the first time, adding a bunch of photos or documents, or even sign-out/sign-in as an attempt to "fix" a problem (beware, that can actually stimulate additional "Other" usage). But there are other functions besides iCloud that use Other - that category includes caches of all sorts, and there's a lot of that going on in modern OSes - auto-save/crash recovery features, buffering streaming media, communication with other cloud services... it's a long list.

Caches are expected to auto-clean - it's temporary disk storage that should be wiped when the task has been accomplished. However, they can sometimes misbehave. On Mac, booting to Safe Mode clears caches - in my experience one might pick up a few GB or occasionally much more after a Safe Boot. And as the name implies, it's not a risky thing to do.

 

[bricktop_at]

Certainly iCloud can be responsible for a fair amount of "Other," both on iOS and Mac - especially after any kind of significant activity - activating a particular iCloud service for the first time, adding a bunch of photos or documents, or even sign-out/sign-in as an attempt to "fix" a problem (beware, that can actually stimulate additional "Other" usage). But there are other functions besides iCloud that use Other - that category includes caches of all sorts, and there's a lot of that going on in modern OSes - auto-save/crash recovery features, buffering streaming media, communication with other cloud services... it's a long list.

Caches are expected to auto-clean - it's temporary disk storage that should be wiped when the task has been accomplished. However, they can sometimes misbehave. On Mac, booting to Safe Mode clears caches - in my experience one might pick up a few GB or occasionally much more after a Safe Boot. And as the name implies, it's not a risky thing to do.

Nicely summed up
I can firstly say (from my own experience), that logging in and out of iCloud (Keychain was acting up) doesn‘t change anything in terms of „other“ storage, the only thing that changes is that you have to enter your AppleID PW in various places again 😜

Secondly, as long as iCloud photos are syncing initially there is a lot of „other“ space used as they are only counted as photos space one by one when the photos app has processed them, before they are obviously stored in some cache. So that would be an occasion where logging out of iCloud would probably free up a lot of space if there are photos still being downloaded/processed - but it will fill up again after logging back in ;-)