HT201656 Clearing "Other" Memory off iPhone 4

I was trying to do the new iOS7 update and saw I didn't have enough memory. Long story short, I basically deleted everything from my phone and still nothing. I then hooked up to iTunes and saw that I had 4.4GB of "other" memory. How do I clear that? There are lots of threads of this topic already but no real clear answer. Lots of different comments and options.

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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!

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 can I clear "other" memory

I have 2.6 giga of "other" memory. My phone is not jailbreak, nor do I want to do this.
I have cleared history, cache, cookies on safari.
I have a kindle app but have deleted all books there.
I have checked other apps and cleared what I could, but I'm still at 2.6 giga for "other"
Any ideas would be apprciated
Pat

If you restore your phone as a "new" device, all data on your phone will be erased. You can of course sync your content back to your phone(contacts, calendars, music, apps, etc.), but stuff like SMS history, recent calls, app data, etc. will be gone. If a restore from backup did not fix your issue, that means that this corrupt data is part of your iPhone backup & continuing to restore from backup will merely continue to restore the problem. It looks like restoring as new is your only option.

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??

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My iPhone is FULL, no memory left for photos. If I move all my photos off my iPhone, will the 'ALBUMS' and their content (pics) be blown away ? Also, what is the BEST way to clear/save photos off my iPhone ? PC, ITunes, some other app ?

My iPhone is FULL, no memory left for photos. If I move all my photos off my iPhone, will the 'ALBUMS' and their content (pics) be blown away ? Also, what is the BEST way to clear/save photos off my iPhone ? PC, ITunes, some other app ?

I use an app called FileApp to transfer photos to my PC - I can then selectively delete photos from my iPhone and still have them on my PC - just download the app to your iPhone and follow the instructions for the accompanying program for your PC - then use your iPhone cable to connect - iTunes will also start up so just close it and you will see the iPhone storage as a drive - go the DCIM folder and open the device folder and you will see your photos.

How to remove 'others' memory from my iphone?

How to remove 'others' memory from my iphone?

OK I have deleted all old texts, voicemails and turned off the document and data to my iPhone 5. I still show 1.5 GB of "OTHER".
Any other ideas on how to remove this 1.5 GB of information.
I can't update my iOS anymore.

Hi, I finally got lucky and past the "other" memory status issues when syncing. Now I'm "waiting for changes to be applied" sync stuck all night (itunes yesomite iPhone 6 plus). is this a bug? I have not had a single successful sync with yesomite.

hi, I finally got lucky and past the "other" memory status issues when syncing. Now I'm "waiting for changes to be applied" sync stuck all night (itunes yesomite iPhone 6 plus). is this a bug? I have not had a single successful sync with yesomite.
please help. this issue prevents music from syncing. I have set the sync setting to convert songs to 192kbps AAC to save space, I figure that could slow the sync
down, but it's hanging indefinitely (I've left it for 24 hours with out it completing.)
the the only music that appears on the phone are songs purchased from the iTunes Store. 95% of my collection are rips from my CDs.
thank you for any help!

Yeah it's pretty sad that $1000 phone they put out you such cheap memory It causes issues, I have iPhone 6+128 GB actually this is the second brand-new one they gave me because they keep affording it trying to act like that's not the issue because they're too stupid to know how to check what memory is in each one before they give it to me when I have told them multiple times my back up runs perfectly fine on two 5s phones and a 6 64GB of course running MLC memory.
I told them it's because just like the write ups say I have 809 apps but I have not even put all my music on the phone so I'm still running 50 to 60 gigs free and it crashes and reboots itself sometimes in multitasking and more often than it does that in between multitasking I get a black screen for 1 to 2 seconds in between apps and upon start up the Apple logo screen will flicker and do weird things, One of the genius idiots asked me if I could just delete some of my apps, really that's the answer to fix the phone the customer needs to limit the amount to apps they put on their phone, why the **** get a 128 gig if you can't put on anything you want to it guess they need to start selling them saying you can only put a limited number of apps on them, it's really is a **** joke, I have over $20,000 of Apple merchandise easily and always get the new phone every year but I'm starting to reconsider my decisions in the future because this company is starting to go downhill, The reason water not recalling the phones is because they're dealing with their top-of-the-line thousand dollar phones in this case and most people don't have over two or 300 apps so they're not having as many issues, so basically they have messed up phones they just don't know it in their hands and Apple is just too **** greedy to recall the phones, they'd rather sell customer spends that only work half ***.
Stuff like this will be the downfall of their company, all the people that stay with them because as long as you don't jailbreak their stuff it normally just works without issue will be soon jumping ship if stuff like this keeps up, because I can guarantee they got me thinking now.
not that I wanted to know or should I be expected to but I even offered for them to open up my brand-new phone and just replace the memory to MLC memory which is something I shouldn't have to do with a brand-new **** phone, they should just make one with the right memory and give me a new phone, actually just don't sell customers that buy the top-of-the-line phone from you trash ones in the first place that would be a great option.
what burns me up the most is when you talk to AppleCare and Genius Bar they try to act like the issue isn't there and they're unaware of it, they say that Apple hasn't come out with any information about it, yeah that's because they don't want to recall the trash.
Apple has became nothing better than your run-of-the-mill company, android is becoming just as good as they are sad to say this since I have been an Apple fan for so long but there is no excuse for BS like this they have been looking for options to fix my phone for a month now this is not the way you should treat loyal customers, I would've been better off keeping my 5S and in the future just switching to android.
it's pretty sad that the company has no idea how to check which memory is in their **** phone and even after I offered to let them just replace the memory in my new phone by opening up my brand-new phone to replace it they have no idea how to do that either, yeah Genius Bar sure, I think that should change the name to idiot bar and Apple don't care instead of Apple care.

How can i remove "others" memory from my iphone?

Hello
im using iphone 4s 16gb and recently my iphone told me that i have no free space.
I Connected my iphone to itunes and i saw that 4 gb is taken by others.
i updated my iphone version (7.1.1 to 7.1.2) and it disappeared, but only for one hour.
the next couple of days the others memory grown to 5.8 (!!!!) gb!
i Dont know what to do. I cant afford to lose all my data so i cant restore my iphone.
does someone have any suggestions?
Thanks!

Kappy's User Tip to deal with "Other": https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142

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.

How do I delete the "other" memory from my Iphone 4?

Most of the memory on my phone is taken by music, but the "other" memory is getting annoying. It takes up 1.34GB and i want to delete it. can anyone help me?

Same issue with my iPhone 4. I deleted everything (apps.songs, pics, video) anything you can think of..... I call apple and they recommended a restore so I did and what happen?.... I still see those "other" spaces taking a big chunk of memory. So I made an appointment with the Genius Bar & most likely they will replace my phone .... Blah !!

Clearing out 'other' memory

I would like to do a little cleaning of my HD. I feel like the 97.23 GB of 'Other' is kind of alot.. Any advice to what this 'other' is and how to manage it..
P.s. I had a similar problem recently on my iphone 4. I had 7.5 GB of 'other' so i decided to clear everything from my iphone, and then restore it from an icloud backup.. the 7.5 GB of 'other' went down to 2.5 GB.

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I just got a new iphone 5s, put my old back up from my iphone 4s on it and now there is 8.1gig of memory taken up by 'other' storage and i dont know where its from. i have almost no photos, music, contacts or apps on my phone and its the same memory size as my old one but i cant do anything about getting rid of other.,
please help

OTHER DATA
Other data on your device should only be about 1.5GB and larger than this may indicate corrupt data.
Read http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_remove_other_data_your_iphone
http://www.imobie.com/support/what-is-the-other-on-my-iphone.htm
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4542883?start=0&tstart=0
To get rid of it you need to restore not from a backup.
Restoring http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

My iPhone 4 with cash card is slowly emptying the balance of the card. Only Wi-Fi is normally ON, most other things OFF. Are the Apps responsible for this, or is something wrong with the phone itself? How can I stop the "thief"?

My iPhone 4 with cash card is slowly emptying the balance of the card. Only Wi-Fi is normally ON, most other things OFF. Are the Apps responsible for this, or is something wrong with the phone itself? How can I stop the "thief"?

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IPhone 4 'other' memory jumping!!

Recently noticed that my available memory on my iPhone 4 was getting lower for no apparant reason.
The 'other' section for Capacity was 1.87GB, I read around the forums and did a full restore but it's still 1.02GB.
This seems way too much, its bad enough that there's no law to stoping companies selling 16GB devices that come with 14GB available memory which means I'm down to 13GB through no fault of my own.
What should be my next step to claim back this infamous 'other' memory??

This typically indicates corrupted data on the device.
A search of the forums would have told you exactly what is going on and how to address it.
Here's a couple of threads on this exact subject.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6676649#6676649
https://discussions.apple.com/message/10603001#10603001

HT201656 Clearing "Other" Memory off iPhone 4

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