How to remove "Other" category?

I have a GIANT "other" category on my iPhone that takes up 4.87 GB's on my phone... How can i get ride of this? I literally just restored my iphone and it updated to the newest software and then it showed even more in my "other" category then before i restored it.... this is obviously rediculous and i cant have this other category take up alomost 5 GB's of room on my iphone. Just so everyone knows, this is an iPhone 5. Please please please someone help!!

it usually means corrupt data. you can try going to settings, general, usage and there you will see how much space each app is taking up. see if there's a certain one that's way over normal. keep in mind that it will show how much space the app itself takes up, then how much space it's data is taking up. if that does't show you anything the next step is to restore the phone from it's latest backup; if that doesn't work then you will have to restore as new and manually add your stuff back.

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