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iPhone X What is “other” and why is it taking up 50% of my storage?
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Do you do iTunes backups? It could be backups waiting to be written to disk. Other can also be pictures that you're syncing to your phone from iTunes. I've had various run-ins in the past with other bloating for no reason, those were the top two for me.
Sometimes hard-resetting the phone (Volume up then down, then hold power button) wipes that out for me.
Sometimes hard-resetting the phone (Volume up then down, then hold power button) wipes that out for me.
Wasn't that mainly iTunes logs and apps cache? Best known ways to clear this are sync with iTunes to clear logs and encrypted backup > wipe the device from Settings > restore the backup. Cache will come back later but you will have some time to enjoy your free space 
iOS should clear this as purgeable space, but seems no one will ever improve this on both macOS and iOS...
iOS should clear this as purgeable space, but seems no one will ever improve this on both macOS and iOS...
Storage is underrated and in apples case overpriced!That's why I love my 128 GB 7
This video might be helpful:
"There’s no magic button that just erases all the “Other” on your iPhone, but you can do a few things to cut it down: 1. Clear Safari history and website data 2. Set Keep Messages to 30 Days 3. Offload some of your apps".
"There’s no magic button that just erases all the “Other” on your iPhone, but you can do a few things to cut it down: 1. Clear Safari history and website data 2. Set Keep Messages to 30 Days 3. Offload some of your apps".
I removed Apple Music after the last reinstall. Reading round it seems a lot of people are having this issue.
I’ve tried removing Facebook, WhatsApp and google photos but it’s hrdley made a dent. It’s definitely an iOS 12 issue. Had iPhones for years and never a problem.
I’ve tried removing Facebook, WhatsApp and google photos but it’s hrdley made a dent. It’s definitely an iOS 12 issue. Had iPhones for years and never a problem.
My guess is backup snapshots? I've noticed Other growing in the past and doing an iTunes backups made Other shrink. Could have been a cleaning routine that iTunes ran on the phone too, honestly I have no clue. It has just shrunk the Other partition in the past for me.
Recently, the Other partition ballooned for me when I was trying to transfer 172 GB of photos to my iPhone. For whatever reason it put a LOT of those in the Other partition - 50+GB. Eventually I just went with iCloud photos for my 172GB of photos and now my other partition is tiny.