Excessive "Other" Usage after iOS 5 Upgrade

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i have 0,55GB of "other" usage, is it a normal amount?

I don't know what's normal here, as I think there was no "Other" at all before upgrade(?) 😕

I have 0,8 GB of "Other" now (32 GB iPhone 4).

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My phone had stopped opening iTunes quite a while ago when plugged in; restore made it do that again, too.

Here's something about "Other" space:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3160532?answerId=15557819022#15557819022

Neither re-syncing nor restoring worked for me.

If you're in the same boat, here's what worked for me:

1. Restore iPhone

2. Restore from your backup. STOP the restore before the music and videos are synced.

3. Eject and unplug the iPhone.

4. Plug it back in.

5. Resume the sync. After this, the Other was only .35GB and my music and videos were properly restored.

Hope this helps someone...

the solution which works for me for both of my ipad and ipad 2 is. looking at the size of "Others", see which portion of "books" or "musics" or "itune U", etc matches best. it could be a sum of them.

remove the "tick" from sync in itune for the tab which matches the size. for example the Others appear to be the size of all your books, then remove the tick from sync for books.

then sync;

after it finishes, you should see the "Others" has gone down. the size should be about 500M. if not keep doing the above procedure until the size is down to about 500MB.

then you can click back the sync "checkbox" to sync back to ipad. this time you won't get a big "Others".

takes a while unfortunately.

i am this wouldn't happen if you install iOS5 without restoring first. install it as fresh device. then sync the wanted musics, books, etc.

i have seen this problem on development version of iOS 5.

A found a solution that gets rid of the OTHER stuff and allows your music library to be sync'd again. It was posted by chips-a-hoy on GFMorris.com a while back. Works like a charm.

Plug your iPhone into your computer so it shows up under the Devices section in iTunes. Then, drag one song from your iTunes library that isn't already on your iPhone (which for me was just about anything!)

After you do that, the OTHER stuff will be small again and there will be one song in your Music. Now, just sync your music library and it will proceed as normal. A few minutes later, all the Music will be back to normal.

I had the same issue when I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS5, 20G + of "other". I ran a fresh "Restore" and it solved the problem.

Good luck.

I have had similar issue with iphone4 update to ios5. Device summary section in itunes showed 16GB of 'other'.

Initially tried converting higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC, to create enough space for new 'other' section.

Still showed large 'other' portion in Capacity section.

Then changed Back up option from 'Back up to iCloud' to 'Back up to this computer' and synced.

'other' section effectively disappeared.

Just a guess, but if the device is trying to back up all information including a large itunes library (over 16GB in my case) but the iCloud back up space is only 5GB, then perhaps the data is held as an 'other' file until sufficient storage space is available on iCloud....?

Hope this is of some help to anyone else experiencing this same problem.

Thanks! The solution you posted by chips-a-hoy on GFMorris.com worked!!!!!!!!

Hopefully this helps someone out.

My "Other" jumped from .80GB to an 3.8GB after updating to iOS5 (according to a Genius when I had a problem long ago excessive "Other" can cause problems with iPhone functionality). At the same time my music files were not playing correctly so I unchecked "sync music", synced my phone, re-checked "sync music" and my "Other" went back to .80GB and my music is working fine.

I have the same problem since updating to iOS5, both on my iPhone and iPad.

Yesterday I tried restoring both from scratch. apparently the excesive Other usage is due to the music library. When I restore my devices without the music "other"usage is very reasonable between 400Mb and 500Mb. When I synchronise music on the devices it gets to approximately 2Gb on the iPad when the music is first synchronised and to apprximately 1.2Gb on the iPhone. When I then do a second synchronisation, for whatever reason Album covers are copied or recopied to the iDevice and the usage jumps to 3.2Gb on the iPad and 1.7Gb on the iPhone.

Is there something I can do in order for the music files not to take up as much "other space"?

On iOS 4.3.5 ti was not the case.

Many thanks in advance.

I have solved this problem on all 3 of my apple products. You need to deselect the music and resync. Add music back on and sync again and voila my 7 gb of other now reduced to 0.69.

Many thanks for your answer. I tried already removing music files and adding them again but will try once more. Else I am wondering if my iTunes library files could not be corrupt. Would you know if it possible to rebuild the library?

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards

All the tunes listed in your iTunes library are stored somewhere in the hard drive if the pc. Usually somewhere like c:\itunes. You should be able to rebuild your library from there. That's what I did when I managed to inadvertently delete my library while trying to create a second one for my son