Why do I have 2 gb of other on my iphone

Ever since ios7 I have a huge amount of "other" on my iphone.  It is over 2 GB.  I deleted my browsing history in Safari and I have cleared out most of my emails since now they all reside on my phone (instead of just 50 as it was previously).  What is this 2GB and how can I get it to go away?
Misha627

"Other" data is real data that you put on your phone by using the built in apps. It is not music, not videos, not pictures and not App Store app data. It is "OTHER" meaning everything that does not fall into these categories. Such as:
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.  You will find posts from people who said they recovered over 3 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.

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