"Apps" taking up 5.2Gb when ALL apps on iMac = 1.75Gb

My wife's iPhone is displaying 5.2Gb for Apps (the green section of the Summary bar). If she installed every app she has on her account, they would only total 1.75Gb. as it is, she only has half of those installed. Does anyone have an idea what all that extra space is going to? I can't figure it out at all and would prefer not to reinstall her iPhone from scratch if I can avoid it.
Thanks in advance.

The total on the phone counts the personal data that is stored as well as the size of the app itself, whereas the Apps tab I believe only displays the size of the app, alone.
If, for instance, she has the Dropbox app, it counts all of the locally-stored files (PDFs, movies, mp3s, Word documents, etc.) that Dropbox has downloaded to the phone as well as the Dropbox app itself - this is included in the "green bar" at the bottom.
The "Apps" tab displays the size of each app WITHOUT (I believe) accounting for the "backup" data that is specific to her phone.

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