So I had to restore my iPhone 6 and when I did I thought I erased all content and settings but when I plug it into iTunes it shows that "other" is taking up 71GB of space. I'm pretty sure this is my music library... How can I reclaim this space?
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"Other" taking up Gigs of storage
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LOL. They won't. The clear explanation is "It helps us sell more expensive models". They can't publicly admit it.
The solution is to not feed these crooks with your hard earned money.
Not sure how to reclaim the space without a full restore from backup, but it seems that it's caused by the OS not automatically deleting downloaded video caches. Hope they address this bug in the next version.
(Of course, the Other storage section includes things like iMessage attachments, but the auto deletion feature in iOS 8 should automatically reclaim some space.)
You don't have to contribute if you don't have anything constructive.
(Of course, the Other storage section includes things like iMessage attachments, but the auto deletion feature in iOS 8 should automatically reclaim some space.)
You don't have to contribute if you don't have anything constructive.
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this other section has been around for several iterations of iOS and apple have never explained exactly what it is or how to truly stop/reduce its size.. Pretty poor by Apple and not ideal for those on low spaced devices...
I wound up navigating my iPhone using PhoneView and discovered it was indeed music that I had on my iPhone but wasn't registering the library for some reason. So manually deleted the entire library and claimed 70GB back. I still have another 3GB of other that I can't seem to discover what it is though. But I'll take only having 3gb as other space on my iPhone anyday
Yeah, the only way to reclaim the "other" space is to restore the device as new, and then restore the data from backup. If you use iTunes Match a lot, any downloads that do not complete all the way will occupy storage space until you restore the device. I learned that with iTunes Match active, downloading playlists and songs should be done in smaller chunks at a time. If anything stalls, then a lot of garbage data will remain behind. Deleting the music files from the settings won't purge this data.
Just as a maintenance routine, I restore my device as new about once every other month, or whenever there's a major interval iOS update.
Just as a maintenance routine, I restore my device as new about once every other month, or whenever there's a major interval iOS update.