Why do I have so much storage 'other' on my iPhone 5, ios7?

why do I have so much storage 'other' on my iPhone 5, ios7?

Hi: I had the same issue. I believe mine was due to the fact that I always installed software updates over wifi. I believe doing so did not remove the old software from my phone, which then took up space in Other. Here's why I think this.
Yesterday, I had 6.2 GB of Other (on my 16GB iPhone). Got the alert that a software update was available, but didn't have enough free space on my phone to update it over wifi. I plugged my phone into my Mac today and ran the update on iTunes and the Other went down to 2.1 GB. Note, when I previously updated software over wifi, it took about 3 minutes, today when I updated it by actually plugging into iTunes on my Mac, it took about 15 minutes. It cleared everything off my phone and reinstalled it.
I'm not sure if this is the only reason for the Other storage to be high, but if you update over wifi, it could be. Note: if you're not due for an update, you may want to try resetting your phone and doing a restore from iTunes. Be sure to back up your phone before doing this!
Hope this helps.

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