Ways to get rid of/reduce the "Other" storage taking up space on my iPhone?

I didn't really know where to put this question and I'm sure this is a common one but I have 3.78 GB being used up in the "Other" catagory. I know that deleting texts helps, do you guys know of anything else that could help give me back some storage? Oh and same with "Documents and Data", not really sure what that even is to be honest.

Very welcome.
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