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Sep 23, 2014 6:40 PM in response to Jinkieby rbrylawski,Have you downloaded any apps, music, pictures? Do you have any texts etc. on the phone? If you do, you have your answer.
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Sep 23, 2014 7:05 PM in response to rbrylawskiby Jinkie,Apps belong to the "Apps" category, music belongs to the "Music" category, pictures belong to the "Photos" category, and texts belong to the "Other" category. I've done my research, my texts are deleted and I've reset my iPhone from a backup. But that only decreases my "Other" data, I want to know why I only have 12GB of data to do what I may.
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Sep 23, 2014 7:18 PM in response to Jinkieby rbrylawski,Apps take up space. Music takes up space. Pictures take up space. I don't get what you don't understand here. Do you think when you add a picture you don't take up memory on the iPhone simply because it's in an App that is part of the operating system? It doesn't work that way. Anything you download or store, takes memory. It's clear you don't have that much stored on your phone, if you have 12 GB left. But you do have things on your phone that were not there when the phone was fresh out of the box. If you really want to know what's being utilized in memory to the MB, go to Settings > About > Usage > Manage Storage and you can see what's in each app, etc.
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Sep 23, 2014 7:20 PM in response to Jinkieby gail from maine,There have been discussions ad nauseam concerning the "Other" on an iDevice. Search the forums for "Other" to see some of the solutions for reducing it.
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Sep 23, 2014 7:42 PM in response to Jinkieby Meg St._Clair,Available space on a new storage device is never going to be what you think the full amount should be. Some of it's system software or drivers. But some of it has to do with a weird quirk where storage is measured using two different numbering systems. See this article for more explanation:
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Sep 23, 2014 8:07 PM in response to rbrylawskiby Jinkie,I don't think you understand. I have used up all of my available storage of 12GB. That's the problem I want at least 14GB, what everybody else I know has on their iPhones. As you can see the capacity is 12.02GB.
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Sep 23, 2014 8:17 PM in response to Jinkieby gail from maine,I have an iPhone 5S 32GB phone with only a 26.8 Capacity. Looks like your your only short about a GB, and if you want to reduce your other to a reasonable size, then do as I previously suggested and search the site for "remove other" or "reduce other". Lots of info out there about how to get most of that 2GB back....
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