Yellow bar of "other"

[ravenfan]

I have never posted with an iPhone question and I couldn't find anything about this when I searched, so if it is something really easy and obvious, give me a newbie break.

I haven't synced my iPhone 6+ in a really long time and at today's sync, there is 53 gb of "other" in the bar that displays how many gb something is using - the color showing is yellow. It is 128 and I have 25 gb of music, 890 mb of music (also yellow but a very thin line of it), five gb of photos, which is a pink line, 7 gb of apps which is light green, 2 gb of documents, which is a darker green, and the rest is yellow - "other."

What is this and how is it using so much memory?

Thanks.

 

[jbachandouris]

This has been going on since at least 2012. Not sure how you searched but didn't see this.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/yellow-other-space-too-large.1250052/

Anyway, the last time I asked about it, I was told to do a restore and that would solve it. I decided to live with it.

There are programs that will let you explore exactly what 'other' is, and I'm sure others will chime in.

 

[Attack Eagle]

It is memory used by apps.
For example videos you sync using VLC streamer or plex will appear as other.
Music you save for offline on Spotify will be other, etc.

 

[bandofbrothers]

This post from the  Community helped me.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142