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Sep 19, 2014 - 4:48 PM
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DeputyRiley
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So I have a question about the "other" section of my storage usage taking up way too much space (3GB) on my 16GB iphone5c.
Earlier today, I had about 3GB of free space left on my iPhone. Not sure how much space "other" was taking up at the time. Anyway, a little bit ago I synced my iPhone to iTunes to add music to my iPhone and I literally watched the "other" bar grow exponentially and my free space decrease dramatically right before my eyes. It's like I was watching it being wiped out right in front of me. Weird. It may not have been being wiped out at that second, it was probably just updating, but that's what it looked like. Anyways like I said, only hours ago things were different and I went to sync my iPhone and suddenly things change, but I don't know what changed or how this happened but I want this free space back!!!
I have done some research already. I have 0 apps on my iPhone -- that's right, 0 apps. I should say up front, I hardly use my phone much except for music. I have deleted all the safari web content under advanced settings, and that didn't make a dent. I barely have any pictures, videos, text messages, or all of those things (found under settings-general-usage-storage) -- all of those facets do NOT make up 3GB of "other"!!! They barely comprise 1GB of "other".
I saw that you can do a system restore, but honestly, I really, really, really don't want to do that. If any way possible I'd like to avoid it, aside from just living with sudden and annoyingly vague huge "other" storage space.
Can anyone offer any tips?
Thanks!
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Are you using an extra memory card? That can help. Mine isn't your make though.
Restoring to factory settings isn't so big a deal as it looks as long as you've backed up. But sometimes even just removing the battery and rebooting will help, though you might have to reset time and date settings afterwards.
I wouldn't mind an answer myself, because the memory for programs and storage that registers on the system memory gauge somehow never seems to correspond to what's running in taskmaster or what's in stored programs.
A small gain can be made by getting rid of cache and cookies for the web browsers.
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Are you using an extra memory card? That can help. Mine isn't your make though.
You can't do that with iPhones, no card slot
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Sep 20, 2014 - 5:05 AM
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DeputyRiley
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If you have updated to iOS 8.0 in the last couple of days - and it is possible you did when you backed up to iTunes - then this is the issue because the new is takes up a huge amount of memory. Unfortunately there is no way around this because even if you do a full reset which will take you iPhone back to factory settings, you will have to connect to iTunes to kickstart the phone and load up the new so and unless your phone is "jail broken" (i.e security settings removed) then I don't think there is a way you can load it with anything that the most current os. I may be wrong about this though so it is worth googling.
Thanks guys for the responses.
Mike J, in response to you, interestingly enough, even though my "other" space usage jumped strangely to 3GB yesterday, this morning I did update to iOS 8.0 as well as finally updating a few versions of iTunes. I've been putting off updating iTunes for a few versions because I hated the iTunes10-iTunes11 jump but in order to updated the latest iPhone software you need iTunes 11.2 or later so I figured I would update everything ... long story short, I did so and now my "other" space usage has been reduced to 1.75GB, about what it was to begin with.
So, problem solved. Or at least, back to how it was. So I'm happy. It appears the solution to my problem here was updating all of my software, including iOS8 and iTunes -- I'm not sure which update was responsible for the reduction in "other" space usage (and likewise I'm not sure which lack of update may have caused the bloating of "other space usage) -- but I hope this experience helps someone else. I've heard, Mike J, that indeed iOS 8 does take up whopping amounts of space but strangely it seems to not be the case here, thank Zeus!
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