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daijholt

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Jun 14, 2013
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So I was messing around with the default Video app on my 5S running iOS 7.0.3. I have a number of movies on iTunes but none of them downloaded to my phone, since now you can just stream them to the device from iCloud.

Here's the problem; since streaming just a few seconds of each of my purchased movies to my phone, it has magically developed over 5GB of "Other" data, which in iTunes is labeled exactly like that, just "Other".

Is there a chance, however remote, that iCloud has downloaded part of each, or several whole movies to the background storage of my phone, in the same way iTunes Match downloads songs to the phone in the background when you listen to them once from iCloud?

Looking at settings on my phone doesn't show where the extra 5GB has gone, and it says that Videos has "No data", yet it clearly says 10GB used, with iTunes then showing half of that being "other".

I tried a settings reset but that did nothing, so my next step is a reset & restore from a backup, which may or may not reinstall that 5GB of other alongside everything else.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any help is appreciated.
 
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