How to reduce "other" on my iphone 4s (ios7)m if it is over 2.38gb

how to reduce "other" on my iphone 4s (ios7) if it is over 2.38gb

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suddenly other space in my iphone increased to 1.26GB from 800MB. please suggest how to reduce the space in 'other'

I am having 'other' storage problems on a lot of my devices and I have been searching for a way to solve this. I was looking through threads of discussions and everyone pretty much said the same thing- that it 'other' is data that can't be classified into sections eg. things like documents, contacts, mail etc and that a way to get rid of it, as mentioned above, is to restore is. But then I came across this thread of disucssions: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17668547#17668547
which said that there was a way to reduce the storage without restoring, having something to do with old uptade files of apps. I'm not sure if this works as I haven't tried it yet but they said it was safe and worked, so there is an option

How to reduce other size in iPhone memory?

I recently plugged my iPhone 4 into my computer and it showed up that I have over 3GB of other data. I have only around 200 songs, 200 pictures, and 20 apps, all which are either games, came with the phone, or social media. I went to the store and they told me to restore my phone and use the iCloud backup to get my data back which should reduce the amount of Other my iPhone has. At first it stayed down to around .80 GB. About 3 days later, today, I plugged it in again, and the Other was 3.12 GB. How can I get it to go back down and stay back down? Are there common apps that make the Other shoot up? Thanks!

Do a full restore:
If You Are Locked Out Or Have Forgotten Your Passcode
iTunes 10 for Mac- Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad
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     If you have forgotten your Restrictions code, then follow the instructions
     below but DO NOT restore any previous backup. If you do then you will
     simply be restoring the old Restrictions code you have forgotten. This
     same warning applies if you need to restore a clean system.
A Complete Guide to Restore or Recover Your iDevice (if You Forget Your Passcode)
If you need to restore your device or ff you cannot remember the passcode, then you will need to restore your device using the computer with which you last synced it. This allows you to reset your passcode and re-sync the data from the device (or restore from a backup). If you restore on a different computer that was never synced with the device, you will be able to unlock the device for use and remove the passcode, but your data will not be present. Refer to Updating and restoring iPhone, iPad and iPod touch software.
Try restoring the iOS device if backing up and erasing all content and settings doesn't resolve the issue. Using iTunes to restore iOS devices is part of standard isolation troubleshooting. Restoring your device will delete all data and content, including songs, videos, contacts, photos, and calendar information, and will restore all settings to their factory condition.
Before restoring your iOS device, Apple recommends that you either sync with iTunes to transfer any purchases you have made, or back up new data (data acquired after your last sync). If you have movie rentals on the device, see iTunes Store movie rental usage rights in the United States before restoring.
Follow these steps to restore your device:
     1. Verify that you are using the latest version of iTunes before attempting to update.
     2. Connect your device to your computer.
     3. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when it appears in iTunes under Devices.
     4. Select the Summary tab.
     5. Select the Restore option.
     6. When prompted to back up your settings before restoring, select the Back Up
         option (see in the image below). If you have just backed up the device, it is not
         necessary to create another.
     7. Select the Restore option when iTunes prompts you (as long as you've backed up,
         you should not have to worry about restoring your iOS device).
     8. When the restore process has completed, the device restarts and displays the Apple
         logo while starting up:
           After a restore, the iOS device displays the "Connect to iTunes" screen. For updating
          to iOS 5 or later, follow the steps in the iOS Setup Assistant. For earlier versions of
          iOS, keep your device connected until the "Connect to iTunes" screen goes away or
          you see "iPhone is activated."
     9. The final step is to restore your device from a previous backup.
If you can not restore your device then you will need to go to recovery mode.
Placing your device into recovery mode:
Follow these steps to place your iOS device into recovery mode. If your iOS device is already in recovery mode, you can proceed immediately to step 6.
     1. Disconnect the USB cable from the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, but leave the other end
         of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
     2. Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the
         red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to turn off.
          If you cannot turn off the device using the slider, press and hold the Sleep/Wake
          and Home buttons at the same time. When the device turns off, release the Sleep/Wake
          and Home buttons.
     3. While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device.
         The device should turn on. Note: If you see the screen pictured below, let the device
         charge for at least ten minutes to ensure that the battery has some charge, and then
         start with step 2 again.
     4. Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen.
         When this screen appears you can release the Home button.
     5. If necessary, open iTunes. You should see the following "recovery mode" alert:
     6. Use iTunes to restore the device.
If you don't see the "Connect to iTunes" screen, try these steps again. If you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen but the device does not appear in iTunes, see this article and its related links.
Additional Information:
Note: When using recovery mode, you can only restore the device. All user content on the device will be erased, but if you had previously synced with iTunes on this computer, you can restore from a previous backup. See this article for more information.

How to reduce "other" in itunes memory on iphone?

how to reduce "other" in itunes memory on iphone? The amount of memory is increasing to point i have no more memory. Most of this is in iphone "other". How do I reduce this?

Not if you sync regularly. And have set up the phone to sync to contact and calendar apps on your computer as explained in the manual.

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.

How to remove other storage from iPhone 5

I have 3.9G of other storage on my iPhone 5 and deleting messages , call logs etc does not seem to be working. Without restoring every app how can i reduce other storage? I have tried downloading iphone-cleaner but it charges 20 dollars, surely there is a free/ cheaper way!

teleh wrote:
This tends to be off-topic at this point so if you're happy to delete my posts I would appreciate, if you'll delete them all, rather than just leaving me out in the cold out of context.
I cannot delete your posts. As I explained, only the Hosts can.
And if you can find it in your heart to actually pass on the feedback that the pre installed apps not being able to easily be gotten rid of is a problem, then that would be great.
Use the feedback link I gave in my first post.
Apparently one of your hosts deleted his own post where he called me an idiot for necroing this thread, where it's still an issue. Obviously I'm not so naive as to think it'd be changed on one person's say-so, but the fact that he deleted his own post is problematic and goes to trust and accountability.
No Hosts have posted here.

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thanks-it worked-appreciate your taking the time!

2 questions; how to erase "other memory" on iphone 5 and how to sync to a new computer

Apple support is failing to help my issues so I thought its best to turn to the community. OK so I've talked to Apple before about my "other memory" and I performed a soft reset on my phone and it decreased other memory by maybe a gig. A month later now its higher than it was before at over 5.6 gigs, any way how to make it as little as possible?
Also I just got a new macbook pro and I use to sync my iphone 5 to my macbook (2008), how do I make my macbook pro my primary itunes and still keep all my info on my phone? My new macbook pro itunes says its backed up, but when I plug it in it won't sync any new songs or app data to my itunes, etc.
Any help with these issues will much be appreciated!!

"Other" is all of the data for all of the built in apps. If you delete its contents all of your built in app data will disappear. Some of what is contained in other:
email messages and attachments
Reminders
Calendar entries
Contacts
Text messages
MMS messages and attachments
Genius data
Music cover art
Operating system settings
Safari cache
bookmarks
Game Center status
Music catalog
Probably a few I've missed. There was a problem in an earlier version where deleted MMS messages left behind their attachments, but that has been fixed as of 6.1. Some people suggest deleting your music on the phone. DON'T DO IT! The reason that deleting music recovers some Other space is because it deletes cover art. But is also screws up your music, which will no longer play correctly.
You will find posts from people who said they recovered over 1 GB of space by just deleting old text messages.
If you want Other to be smaller you will have to keep less data on your phone; delete old MMS and texts, delete old email (especially from the "deleted" folder), clear the cache, eliminate cover art.
Your Other is so large, however, that there may be corrupt data contained in it (unless you send a lot of MMS messages with large attachments). If this is the case you should restore the phone as New.
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For your other question, the easiest way is to copy your iTunes library folder from the old computer to the new computer. For the hard way, see: Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive

How to delete "other" space in iPhone?

I have a 16GB iPhone 4s, I was always wondering why my other family members had so many pictures (1,000+) and so many songs, etc. with the same amount of memory. I always had problems with my phone because I'd have at most 600 photos and I'd get a notice saying I should manage my settings and I wouldn't allowed to take more photos, etc. I checked how much space these things were taking and the "other" category has 4. 79 GB that it's taking up! I read that I should restore my phone but I wouldn't wanna lose my pictures.
If i restore my phone when how do I add the photos back into camera roll, rather than add it to an album?
And why is "other" taking so much space? I read it's from corrupt files, but where did all this corrupt files come from?
Thanks!

The issue source is likely a corrupt app. If you have an app or two that has not been widely used and reviewed, those are the places to look. If you haven't done the restore yet, you could also check Settings > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostic & Usage Data and see which app(s) are crashing a lot. That may help.
"Another way to restore contacts and photos"? That depends a lot on what source you're using for these. If, for example, you use iCloud, restoring contacts would be trivial - simply turn on Contacts in iCloud on your iPhone and you're done. The basic way is to use the iTunes tabs (e.g., Photos) and select what you want there.

How to remove "other" files from iphone memory

Concerning how the memory is used on the Iphones under the "other" category, I have found that the biggest culprit is text messages that include photos and videos sent and received. Think about it, when you take a picture and then send it, even though you delete it from your camera roll, it is still necessary to hold in memeory as being part of the text history. It is only removed from the phone when you delete it from the text message as well. This also applies to text messages received. This is a large hidden area to most people!
good luck.
Armand S.
Phila.

Restore the iOS. You may have to do this as a new phone (without using a backup). Note that "other" contains messages and emails - if you have a lot of these, especially with photos/videos, that would account for the other usage.

How to clear "other" space in iphone

my iphone is using 2.5gb extra,
I don't know why,
Can any one tell me how to remove the extra other space??

Restore the iphone

How to delet 'other' memory from iphone

My iphone works fine, but I have a problem with the memory of my 8gb phone, i have 2.2 gb of music and one app thats 9mb and when i try to download another app it says i do not have enough memories, i go to seetings to see whats wrong then it says thats 4.3 gb is other? How do I delet the other memory i am not using.

Good day all,
I have a 4S that had 5+G of "other" that I was trying to free up. I searched and searched, tried all the suggestions and had no success. I tried a full restore and freed up the memory but didn't want to loose all my settings, app folders, etc. After a process of elimination the solution that worked for me was to delete txt messages! When I went from the 3G to the 4S I restored from a back up. I've never delete any of my txt message history... so all that information, photos, videos, etc were being caried from one device to the other for like 3 years!
I started with a test. Pluged in my 4S, synced it. Registered 5.2GB of "other". I ejected the phone from itunes. I deleted my wifes txt message (with whom I txt the most). I plugged back in and "other" dropped down by an entire Gig!! So, I tried again with another that I txt often... and sure enough when down another Gig.
So, I decided to take the plug and start off fresh... I deleted ALL of my txt messages and my "other" memory went down to .52gigs!
This is why a FULL restore has been successful for those trying to clear out "other" memory. When you initiate a Full restore, you are cleaning out your entire memory of txt messages which includes large files of photos and videos!
So this is what worked for me folks! I hope it helps someone!

How to uninstall other lanuages on Iphone 5 to save some GB?

Hello,
I would be very much apreciate if anyone answer the question in subject. I am not going to JB the system, but I am looking for the more official way i.e. application or settings. I have heard that uninstalling other languages then active might release some GB (1 or 2) which in my case means a lot:) (I have only 16GB).
Thank you for any advice.
BRGDS
Peter

Hi,
I've heard that is possible on Mac so thought on iPhone too, but now subject is closed.
Thank you ALL for help.
Regards
Peter

How to reduce "other"?

I have had my Macbook for about 4 years now, and I religiously clear out my documents to an external hard drive, but more and more lately I have had "Full Start Up Disk" pop-up. I keep checking my storage and it says 120 GB of other. Today I spent hours restoring my computer then selecting the few things I wanted on here, and not it says 114 GB of other. Now I am totally fed up with this since I can't even save my documents for school. What can I do?

Where did my Disk Space go?
The Storage Display

How to remove "Other" from my iPhone 5 memory to free up space?

I tried doing a rest and it didn't help my problem. Are there any other things I could try?

jessraygor wrote:
... Any suggestions other then the reset to "new Phone"
No.
Other is usually around 1 GB...
A ' Large Other ' usually indicates Corrupt Data...
First Try a Restore from Backup... But... if the Large Other Persists, that is an Indicator of Corrupt Data in the Backup... Then a Restore as New is the way to go...
Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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