Other storage
My others storage is taking up a lot of space on my phone , what is that how can I clear
iPhone XR, iOS 13
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My others storage is taking up a lot of space on my phone , what is that how can I clear
iPhone XR, iOS 13
How much storage do you have with your iPhone XR, and how much storage is “other”, and are you running iOS 13.6.1?
iOS 13.6.1 fixes some storage issues, per Apple.
Clear Other storage on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
From How to check the storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Other: Non-removable mobile assets, like Siri voices, fonts, dictionaries, non-removable logs and caches, Spotlight index, and system data, such as Keychain and CloudKit Database. Cached files can't be deleted by the system.
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60% of my iphone storage is "other… - Apple Community
If you restore your iPhone to factory settings, you will lose all your data. You might try restoring from a backup first and see if that helps:
Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support
Other storage