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carissa82 Author

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How do I clear “other” iPhone storage

How do I clear “other” storage

iPhone XS Max

Posted on Jul 30, 2020 3:26 PM

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Axel Foley

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Posted on Jul 30, 2020 3:28 PM

It appears that most of your data is stuck in the other category. I only know of one way to clean up the storage and minimize the "other" category and here is how- (This involves erasing your iPhone and restoring it to factory settings and then restoring from a back up file).

Back up your iPhone to a computer as shown here ➔ Back up your iPhone to your computer.
Erase your iPhone and restore to factory settings by opening Settings ➔ General ➔ Reset ➔ Erase all content and Settings
Restore your iPhone from that back up file on your computer (Step 1) as shown here ➔ Restore your iPhone from a computer back up.

I know that this may turn into a time consuming event and other members of this forum may have other ideas however this is the method that has worked for me.

Axel F.

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