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Iphone storage other huge. Settings iphone storage. When reviewing iphone 7 on itunes you usually find a huge chunk of memory being used on a section called other. But lots of people even don t understand what other is. Alternatively in finder on macos plug in and select the iphone.
The other category on your iphone and ipad is basically where all of your caches settings preferences saved messages voice memos and well other data is stored. Deleting large attachments especially gifs and videos that you ve shared with a contact is a great place to start when you need to free up other storage on your iphone. Other storage is just other types of data that itunes can t display and manage for you. Getting rid of them can do a world of good for the storage of your device.
Go to the apps tab and look through the files different apps have stored. When you dfu restore your iphone all of the code controlling its software and hardware is completely erased and reloaded. Review and delete large attachments in messages app on a frequent basis. With a bit of patience you can reduce the amount of space it takes up on your iphone or ipad.
We are here to help. What s that supposed to mean. Worst of all a huge chunk of it is just categorized as other. Put iphone into dfu mode restore from a backup.
If your other files are taking up a lot of space you can reclaim some of that to make your iphone run more smoothly to install updates or make better use of your iphone s storage. Large attachments that you send or receive in messages can be a big part of what takes up other storage. Delete any apps you never use. Then at the bottom on my iphone look at the local files for app you do use and delete files you don t need.
To review large attachments. Other space huge in iphone 6 16 gb i am old iphone user the first one was a 3g and have always been restrained in numbers of applications so i opted for the iphone 6 16gb capacity already used in the previous one an iphone 4s. You can free up this space by leaving itunes behind and managing the storage directly. Simply put other storage simply includes everything that doesn t fit into pre existing categories.
Connect your iphone ipad or ipod touch to your computer open itunes and you ll see a large amount of space used by other storage. Open settings tap on general. Itunes won t let you delete any of this other data to free up space.