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How do I clear “other” storage on my iPhone ?

How do I clear “other” storage?

It’s taking up almost half of my total space.

Posted on Jan 23, 2022 8:01 PM

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Posted on Jan 23, 2022 8:15 PM

pandypaw Said:

"How do I clear “other” storage on my iPhone ?: How do I clear “other” storage? It’s taking up almost half of my total space."

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Clearing "Other":

Use my User Tip: How to Clear "Other" in your iPhone's Storage - Use Backup - User Tip

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Jan 23, 2022 8:51 PM in response to pandypaw

Some of that may be real data that you need, but others may be temporary files that are no longer needed, but don't clear quickly. The latest version of iOS doesn't call it that (I think iOS and System Data), but I think older versions of Finder (like on my Mac with Catalina) still use that term.


Those files don't get saved in a backup, so often just backing up to a computer, restoring to factory settings, then restoring from the backup will result in those less of that Other storage when you're done. I sometimes do that simply because I don't have enough free space to update iOS.

How do I clear “other” storage on my iPhone ?

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