Deleting other data?

I have an iPhone 5C, with the most recent update, as of this very minute in fact, I have over 2 GB of other data, and would like to know exactly how I get rid of it? I should have 7 GBs of space left, but do not. Please help!

You can't directly delete it but you can reduce it. Other is misc. data and sometimes gets corrupted. If you have not updated to iOS 8.3 yet, do that and you should see a reduction in the amount of other. I went from 1.7 GB to less than 1 GB with the update today. The other way is to restore through iTunes on your computer then reload your most recent backup.

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