Yellow 'Other Storage' Taking up space and won't go away
My son seems to be doing something that makes his iPad and iPhone fill up with 'Other' storage.
over 3/4 the space is now 'other'.
Looking at the 'Usage' section, there are none of the usual suspects using space (Mail, iMessage, Documents). In fact, Video and others all say they are zero. If you manually add up the apps that it lists, I'm using 6.53GB total, yet on a 32GB iPad I only have 9GB free.
I'm tired of playing the restore game now that iOS 7 makes you turn off find my ipad and all that crap every time you try to restore it. Plus it doesn't fix it, it just deletes whatever that stuff is and whatever is happening is making it come right back after a bit.
The other thing is he isn't a heavy user, he mostly watches iTunes library of TV shows. It's like the Video app is caching something, or putting it somewhere but then saying 'I don't have it' and filling up the iPad.
Any ideas? this is getting really old. We've got 5 iPads in the house and his is the only one doing this, but he's the only one who constantly watches purchased videos on it.
"restore it" isn't an idea, because it comes right back. I'm tired of that game.
It normally builds up slowly.
Try reset iPad
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
Note: Data will not be affected.
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