Q: Why aren't I getting the full 8GB of storage?
My iPhone 5C recently alerted me that my storage was full. I google'd ways of rectifying this problem i.e. backing up photos to my computer and deleting them from phone, deleting unwanted apps etc. Now when I look in the Usage - Storage menu I can see that I have 'used' 4.7GB and I have 601MB available. When I click 'Manage Storage' I can see all of the apps that are using up my storage space, but when I add all of these together I have found that they only amount to about 1.5GB.
I understand that the iOS probably takes up a certain amount of the storage space but I thought that would be the space that I was initially missing from the 8GB advertised storage: Used (4.7GB) + Available (601MB) = 5.3GB... 2.7GB for iOS?
Apologies if I am completely wrong in my assumptions, but as I see it there is a portion of the storage space being taken up by something I can't see. Is there another magic way of freeing up some space? Or is the 8GB internal storage simply not big enough?
Thanks in advance!
iPhone 5c, iOS 8.4.1, 8GB
Posted on Sep 10, 2015 1:43 PM
Apologies if I am completely wrong in my assumptions, but as I see it there is a portion of the storage space being taken up by something I can't see. Is there another magic way of freeing up some space?
You are absolutely correct!!! Connect your phone to iTunes, select the phone icon from the top left side, on the Summary page that appears there will be a usage bar at the bottom and one of the items will say "Other". This does NOT appear on your phone usage table but is very real indeed. I have seen Others as large as 18 GBs. Post back with what you see and I will help you from there. In the mean time take a look at this article also.
http://osxdaily.com/2013/07/24/remove-other-data-storage-iphone-ipad/
Posted on Sep 10, 2015 2:10 PM