"Other" allocated space keeps growing.

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"Other" allocated space keeps growing.

This strange Other space is taking over our phones. I keep having to delete important stuff to be able to backup my phone.

Does anyone know what it is?

I was thinking it might be stuff like e-mails but why backup imap mails that allready are on the e-mail server?

Was also thinking some of it could be imessage/sms/mms history. .. But deleting all message history didn't change anything.

Many people are saying its a feature Apple build in to force us to buy more iCloud storage but how ludicrous would that be :-)

Any help you can offer.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1

Posted on Feb 8, 2013 10:56 PM

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Raqtor Author

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Feb 8, 2013 11:07 PM in response to Raqtor

Forgot to mention that this discussion have come to the conclution that like everything else from apple .. It just doesn't work and is unsolveable. This is kinda hard to believe. There must be some way to save our phones.

Discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4032647?answerId=18662730022#18662730022

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Raqtor Author

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Feb 10, 2013 3:07 AM in response to Raqtor

Another topic is sugesting to erase your phone.

Well...

Suuuuree. That will get rid of your mysterious Other space :-) ... Might consider the side effects though. .. Gotta admit it made me laugh a little .. even though it really is very sad.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4568912?answerId=20480879022#20480879022

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kthersh

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May 20, 2013 11:45 AM in response to Raqtor

What a joke, I really wish Apple would find a way to allow us to remove it easily!

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Dec 1, 2013 6:43 AM in response to kthersh

I have so much "other" and when I call they say do a restore which wipes it and then you can download all your stuff again. ****, I want to spend HOURS putting my stuff back where it was? HORRIBLE solution to what should be an easier fix! Apple CS was NO HELP!

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Mar 23, 2014 6:38 AM in response to Raqtor

I have 4.52Gbytes of Other storage on my 16Gbyte iPhone 4S - well over 25% of available storage. I am a well-informed user of technology, but not a geek! I expect this stuff to work. This is preventing my from having a smartphone that does everythng I want.......and getting a larger phone is not the answer - Apple sorting out this problem with Other storage is the answer.

I don't want to restore the phone as whilst I can reload music apps etc, I will lose data in the apps. Apple please help. There is far more competition in the smartphone space now than when I first purchased an iPhone 3 in 2010.

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