What is documents and data in storage?

My iPhone 4S has been threatening with being full for ages and I just don't have that much stuff on it. Photos, videos, apps, and music all account for less than half of the 16gb space on the phone. When I plugged it in to back up my files (since it just deleted ALL of my contacts over night), it is showing that over half of the storage space is being taken up by "documents and data" - anyone know what this is? I need to delete most of it to clear room for more photos!

Document & Data on iPhone is junks files including browser history, cookies, logs, caches of photos and videos, database files stored by your apps. You’ll notice that some apps while being very small themselves have accumulated a lot of data. An example of this is shown in the image below, you see that the Facebook app is 109 MB whereas the Documents & Data stored is 1.2 GB. This 1.2 GB is what goes into your “Other” data.
These apps on iPhone don’t provide a way to delete Documents and Data, uninstalling and reinstalling the app is not the best option here. With the help of CleanMyPhone or PhoneClean you can delete the documents and data on iPhone without deleting the app itself.
Resource: http://www.fireebok.com/resource/how-to-delete-documents-and-data-on-iphone.html

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DDAAYY wrote:
i need to free storage on my phone,
because you want to put more Documents & Data on it.
Make sure you sync photos to computer then delete from Camera Roll. (Camera Roll photos are part of Documents & Data).
Delete some apps on the iPhone.
Then Restore iPhone in iTunes.

What does documents and data consist of on the iPhone when iCloud is already shut off?

My icloud is turned off, and i dont use documents and data, and if i do i dont even know what it is on my iphone 5, but it takes up more than a third of my storage space. how do i turn it off?

Welcome to the Apple Community renee_sween.
you can see exactly what is in Documents and data at settings > iCloud > storage & back up > manage storage > documents & data.

What is Documents and Data on my iPhone 4 and how do I delete it?

When I plug my iPhone 4 into my Mac is tells me that Documents and Data is taking up 2.63GB of storage. I have no idea what this is and it is taking up more storage than any of my other tabs (Music, Apps, Photos etc.) I would like to clear this storage to make room for photos and music. I would also like to know where this is coming from.

Try this:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401354,00.asp

What is documents and data and how do I remove it?

When I updated my phone I noticed documents and took up a lot of space. What is it and how do I remove that?

I made some significant discoveries on the Documents and Data battle last night and wanted to share.
1) Turning off Documents & Data made no difference in the 4.7GB chunk of mystery space being used up by D&D on my iPhone 4S.
2) Removing Texts did help, but I was still left with 4.1GB of mystery space. I had one text message with my son in the USAF that had lots of videos and pictures. I made sure to save them to my Camera Roll before deleting. But that one text was over .5GB. So Texts matter.
3) Backing up and Restoring just my Settings did not eliminate any of that 4.1GB.
4) Reseting my phone as a new phone initially did, until I added my two email accounts.
JACKPOT.
5) My Gmail account, upon extensive review, retains all the same folders on my phone as it does in my Gmail account on the computer (which I've never once visited). I looked in each folder until I came across one that said All Mail...containing 830 emails that date back to the establishment of that email address in the summer of 2012. On my phone there is no option to delete those, other than the painful process of going Edit>Tap>Tap>Tap>Tap>Scroll>Tap>Tap...830 times. I logged onto my Gmail account on the my computer, visited the All Mail folder, did a mass delete (100 items at a time) and then emptied the Trash
6) All 830 items were still on my iphone and were not budging without individually being deleted and I couldn't find a Sync with Gmail type option, so I deleted the Gmail account and then added it back to my phone immediately.
BOOM - Docments and Data went to 60.1MB.
The good news is that if you have a Gmail account and need to fish out an old email, you probably can. You have to work at it to make them go away. I had one come in this morning and had to flush it through my Inbox, the All Mail and then the Trash to get rid of it. I've opted to instead use the Gmail app for that account to save me this drama again.
I also use an iPad and through the cloud, had duplicates of ALL my text messages and the gmail account. Which explains the 'your storage is almost full' messages I've been fighting.
I am happily restoring all my music and plan to spend today in an 80s music haze. I hope this helps someone.
Good luck to all.

What does "Documents and Data" consist of on the iPhone?

I'm syncing my iPhone and I have a lot of "Documents And Data" Does anyonen know what this consists of on my phone? And what it consists of?

You can probably get a good idea by going to Settings > General > Usage > Documents & Data.
Also see the first section ("Other on your iDevice") here:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142

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what type of files are included as document and data on my iPhone. These files are showing a considerable amount of data being used but I don't know what type of things are included in this??

Hello dsouz,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand wanting to know what data is being stored in Documents & Data and how to manage that space. You can view and remove what is being stored there using the instructions located in the attached article.
iCloud: Remove documents from iCloud
WARNING: When you delete items that are stored in iCloud, they are removed from all your devices immediately and permanently.
Remove iCloud documents using your iOS device
On an iOS device set up for iCloud Documents & Data, do one of the following:
With iOS 8: Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage, then tap Manage Storage.
With iOS 7: Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup, then tap Manage Storage.
Under Documents & Data, tap the app that has a document you want to delete, then tap Edit.
Best regards,
Joe

HT4847 what happens if i turn documents and data option off

what happens if i turn documents and data option off

This is what Apple says about documents on icloud.com (from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4910):
iWork for iOS apps
For documents created with the iWork for iOS apps, you can download those files by visiting icloud.com/iwork on a Mac or PC and downloading a copy. After downloading the files, you should back them up using the normal methods you use for backing up local files such as Time Machine, manually copying files to external hard drives, and burning to CD/DVD.
Other apps
For other apps using iCloud Documents, contact the app developer for more information on how to keep a copy of that app's data.
If you go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage, you will see a list of the apps that are storing documents and data on iCloud (under Documents & Data). You can tap each item listed there to see the file names of any documents.

When you sync your phone, what info is in the "documents and data" ?

I have 5MGB of "documents and data" and can't figure out what's contained in that so I can clean it up.

Documents and data include any files that you have saved on iCloud and info that apps have stored in iCloud.

I know have a document and data storage on my iTunes. how do you get rid of it

i know have a document and data storage on my iTunes. how do you get rid of it

Very helpful, ty.
FYI for others. I also had to disable the Default Tab 1.0 addon.

HT4889 Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer only some documents and data? For example, I was to transfer my music, but not my word documents. There doesn't seem to be any options to customise what you are transferring - its all or not

Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer only some documents and data? For example, I was to transfer my music, but not my word documents. There doesn't seem to be any options to customise what you are transferring - its all or nothing

LBraidwood wrote:
Is it possible to use the migration assistant to transfer only some documents and data? For example, I was to transfer my music, but not my word documents. There doesn't seem to be any options to customise what you are transferring - its all or nothing
Yes, that's why I recommend one have more than TimeMachine as a backup because if certain files or folders are corrupted on the TM drive, your not logging into your migrated user account or not be able to transfer it what so ever.
Then it's a REAL PAIN and costs $99 to bit read the TM drive to get the files out, then it's mess to go through and sort all the empty placeholders from the real files as TM doesn't save duplicates in each state, just uses the previous state's copy if there are no changes.
If you create the same named user account on the new machine, and simply transfer files via a USB thumb drive and place say music contents into the Music folder, then it will work too.
Look into making clones of your boot drive, the benefit here is it's bootable, you can access the drive directly to pick and choose files, run the computer just like before etc.
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I cannot seem to get 6.08 worth of Gb off of my documents and data someone help!

Manage the data on the device via iTunes.

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You need to go over the scenario in more detail.
Which iPhone do you have? Which version of ios do you have?
There is not auto delete. Stuff stays around until you delete it.
The largest items are videos followed by pictures.
I'm lazy. I wait til things fill up then delete some apps I have not used in a long time.
Robert

I want to turn off Documents and Data iCloud syncing (in Sys Prefs on iMac) but it insists on deleting all docs from my iMac! HELP!

I don't want to sync my 'Documents and Data' with iCloud any more (iMac, iPhone and iPad). When I go into iCloud in System Prefs and try to uncheck the Documents and Data box it tells me 'all docments stored in iCloud will be deleted from this Mac'. Really need to keep all my docs and quite shocked that iCloud would even consider deleting them from my iMac. Does anyone know any way round this other than backing everything up and restoring it after it's been deleted? Thanks!

Hi doodlebuglondon. I understood you throughout the thread as I have the same situation. I turned it on, then decided immediately to turn it back off. It then gives you the scary warning, assuming you understand under what circumstances documents got stored in the iCloud. Like you, I had no idea. But I did see 5 GB of 5GB available on iCloud Storage, which was a hint. So I opened a folder with some Pages documents, turned off Documents & Data, clicked the big scary "Delete from Mac" button. If it had really deleted my iWorks documents, like you, I would have had to restore perhaps 40 or 50 disparate folders. Whew!
Did it work out OK for you? I note you were very clear in pointing out you hadn't actively put anything in iCloud, but who knows whether Apple magically puts stuff in iCloud for you. I couldn't find that explained anywhere in Apple's "instructions", but I'm sure it's buried in there somewhere.

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