What is in the "other" section of the capacity on my iPhone 4?

Today when I plugged my phone into my Mac, the capacity shot up from 9GB to having 14 GB filled. It is the "other" section that is suddently filled up. It has 4.7GB in that section and I wanna cut it down.
I have gone through and deleted emails, texts, anything that I though would be under "other" and it did no damage. Help! Thank you!

Currently resoring my phone after I noticed a few other discussion posts about the same thing. Thanks! I should have read into it more before I posted.

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On iTunes when i plug my iphone in, the bar at the bottom with contains the information about the capacity of my iphone, it has a bar called 'other' which has 4GB. I don't know what is taking up that space or how to get rid of it. please help :)

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Backing Up, updating, and restoring your iPhone and iPod touch software
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In looking at our bill we have one person that is using almost triple the amount of data that the other users are, and we need to figure out exactly what it is that is eating all of the data on his phone as he doesn't have any clue what it could be. Any help to determine what is using the data on an iphone 5c?

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My iPhone 5s won't turn on. Its battery was drained for more than a month. I tried charging it for more than an hour then pressed reset but it still won't turn on. What could be the problem?, My iPhone 5s won't turn on. Its battery was drained for mo

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Just to confirm what stedman1 has said. At this time there are no prices confirmed for New Zealand.
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I recently had trouble updating my itunes, when I did do it I kept getting an error message and because of that I had to uninstall everything than reinstall itunes. But since then my iphone, ipad, and ipod are not really syncing correctly. My PC says its going through the steps and applying everything but when I got to my phone nothing is updated at all. Nothing is being applied and I did the run diagnostics as well and it said that everything was fine. When I got what is on this phone it says the playlists are on my phone but when I go to the music app on my phone the playlists aren;t there at all. I've gone through all my settings on my computer and iphone and they are all what they should for the songs to transfer correctly and it still isn't working.

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What happened to the automatic backup with Iphone 6?

I can not find it anywhere? On my iphone 5 it was in settings manage storage where you set it to automatically backup when connected to wifi, now where is it?

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http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph96b1d67c
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Other section taking over 7 gb on iPhone 4s

When I plugged in my phone to my new laptop I was shocked to see that "others" is taking up 7.4 gb of th 13 gb I have avaliable. I have tried everything that has already been suggested (restore, sync, delete apps etc.) but it simply made the category increase. Can someone please help me because it is taking over half of what I have to use with.

If I restore it as new do I have to go in my carrier's store to get it activated and all that?

I have noticed on my iTunes that i apparently have 3GB worth of "Other". i have no music on my iPhone and only 4GB of apps . . . . why is my "other" so big and what does this section include?

Hi,
I have recently noticed that my "other" section has steadily been increasing every time i sync my phone. I now have 3GB worth of "other" and have no idea what this could be.
I have wiped both my itunes and Iphone completly of music and no only the App remain ( of which i have 4GB)
I have no idea what is in this Other section and as it has never been any higher then 250MB i have never really paid it much attention.
Can someone please adcise what is classed as "other" and how i can empty this as it is taking up a large chunk of my memory.
Please note that i have had my iPhone 4s for 6 months and i only sync up playlists i do ot hold great quantities of music on my iTunes nore my Phone.

Connect your phone to iTunes, select any tab of your iTunes sync settings and look at the capacity guage on the bottom. This will show you what's taking up the majority of your space. For a more detailed idea of how much is being consumed by your apps, go to Settings>General>Usage.

Ipad - how to see what is using the storage?

my ipad has 13.6GB capacity but only 1.0 GB available.
Is there a way to see what is using the capacity?

Connect to your computer.
How much space is used by your Other? You may be able to reduce.
How Do I Get Rid Of The “Other” Data Stored On My iPad Or iPhone?
http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
How to Remove “Other” Data from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-remove-other-data-from-iphone/
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A restore shoud resolve.

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