Excessive "Other" Usage after iOS 5 Upgrade

Well, it looks like doing a restore fixed it. I'm down to .27 gigs of "other" now, and my settings, info, apps and such are reloading as we speak.

If this doesn't work, it may be because you don't have your apps set to sync with itunes. The "other" seems to be the app data. Sync the apps using itunes and restart your ipad and the data should reappear in your apps. When you reconnect the ipad to itunes, the "other" will appear as "apps." That worked for me.

I had the same problem. I googled it and didn't find anything about iOS 5, but found (and then remembered) that the same thing happened with the iOS 4.2 upgrade. The solution then was to connect to iTunes, open the media on the iPhone, play a song from the listed music, and then sync. I did that last night and everything was back to normal - all my music was back on the phone after I disconnected from iTunes. Note that, while connected, the status bar showing the content of the iPhone showed that I was overcapacity, but once the process ended that was not an issue.

Just to report back a restore fixed it for me too. There might have been a quicker solution, but since my original update was interrupted I kinda wanted to do a restore to be sure...

Same happened here on my iphone 4. I heard it's something about bad meta data in the music files but I've no idea. It seems to be fixed by deleting the music from the iphone and then syncing it back on. No need to reset so far luckily!

Same happened here on my iphone 4. I heard it's something about bad meta data in the music files but I've no idea. It seems to be fixed by deleting the music from the iphone and then syncing it back on. No need to reset so far luckily!

Hello Ipod Touch 32 GB, previous installation 6 GB free, after ios5 installation 11.5 gb over capacity, I just remove unwanted data from itunes sync option (I just got 11 gb over capacity) and I did sync again and I got back my 6 gb free space...

I restored my iPhone 3GS and went from 4.9 GB of Other to 0.26 GB of Other, and all my songs and pictures are back!

Maybe I get the record, my "Other" was 18.1 GB. I did upgrade last night and I was thinking that maybe my "other" was email. After further research, I decided a sync from iTunes was necessary. Didn't go to the extreme of factory defaults. I went through all of the Sync option tabs in iTunes. Added a few videos, didn't turn off all my apps, only put music I'm interested in listening to away from home, etc. Now it is down to .61GB! Wooo Hooo!!!

I had the exact same problem. My iPad 2 showed up with 5.5gb of 'Other Data' and my iPhone 4 had 3.1gb of 'other'.

I went into iTunes and unsynced my Music, Books, Ringtones, and Photos from both devices, this brought the usage on each down to a 1gb or so. Then I resynced all my files back onto the iDevices and the 'other' on both devices has stayed at about 0.78gb so I'm happy with that. Hope this helps

After the upgrade also my free disk space was occupied by "Other 9.2 GB". Part of the music library didn't play.

I did the "Restore" and everything seems to be in order again (you need to have a backup of your iPhone in iTunes for that). Takes a long time to copy files to iPhone again if your music library is large.

I've got an original iPad 16gb and after updating to iOS 5 I've got 2.1gb of other. For some reason the update seems to have screwed up the music app on my iPad too but I've noticed that I should have 3.2gb of music but iTunes is only registering 1.67gb on my device. It looks like the other is all corrupted music on mine which wasn't there before updating. I've tried restoring and nothing has happened :S

Re-syncing removed the large Other for me.

Don't restore, re-sync....that cleared up mine.

Re-syncing didn't work for many of us, as noted many times in this thread. I tried, tried and tried again. Only a restore fixed this issue for me,

After a restore, everything is back to normal.