What are the "others" which take up all the storage space in my iPhone?

I have a Mac, an ipad and an iphone 5s. According to itunes nearly 8G of storqage is occupied by "others". All I have stored in my phone is a handful of photos, music and apps, which add up to just over half the available space. However I find I am left with only 3G out of an original 32. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Messages is often one of the largest components of "Other". Email also.
If after clearing out both of those services you still have a very large "Other" greater than about 2GB, then most likely you have some corrupt files and a restore as new might be your only way to recover that space.

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COPirateDad wrote:
I have been trying to figure out what ... is occupying over 1.4 GB of memory on my iPhone
Other is usually around 1 GB...
See Here > maclife.com/how_remove_other_data_your_iphone
More Info about ‘Other’ in this Discussion
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19958116

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