Excessive "Other" Usage after iOS 5 Upgrade

Thanks a lot for this suggestions. I tried rebuilding my library. The issue being that after iTunes had "rebuilt" it, several "native" play lists were doubled. And in Particular All of my Apps were not listed in iTunes anymore. Would these "reappear" when synching an iDevice to the computer?

I had 9.3GB of "other" and once I did a resync, it went down to 0.51GB, not sure what else it could be due to.

It works! Thanks, but be adviced everything will be copied again to to your Iphone. I have 20 G audio and it took a lot of time. I wonder why Apple is not fixing this problem. I have seens even 3G users complaining.

I have done a Restore twice. Both times, after the Restore, Other would go down to a reasonable amount. But within a week, it would shoot up again and this without me adding any apps or music.

I've even watched Other go up after two successive syncs, when I changed nothing!

This thread helped me solve the problem without a restore, and for once and for all:

http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97281?page=3, check out "Jeff''s" solution. He reposted from this thread:

http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone/fixing-issue-other-files-iphone-memory/2010/0 3/31/

And it worked! Other went down from 1.29 GB to .85GB. (I found a bunch of "f" files in the Music folder just as described in the thread).

Good luck!

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Not sure if this will work for everyone, but it worked for me.

Go to the Summary page and uncheck "Open iTunes when this iPad is connected." I found the instructions here: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/itunes-other-capacity-taking-up-tons-of-space-fix /

Hope this helps!

I tried these steps and went from 1.6 to 2.7 in "other."

Guys,

I hope all of you have had this issue rectified.

I just uploaded to IOS6 and now the "OTHER" is sitting on 14.4gb usage. I have tried a RESTORE,RE-SYNCH, Check, Uncheck....blah blah blah!!!! Tried the same thing 4 times and Nothing! No change whatsoever.

Please offer me some new advice! VERY FRUSTRATING!

Same thing here! I talked to a Genius and they said there was something corrupt in the backup and I needed to do a clean restore (without restoring my app data and losing all my app data). Totally unacceptable! Please let me know if anyone finds a solution for the Other Bloat in iOS 6!

I had this problem too. I simply shut down my device and itunes and restared them both. Back to normal.

I shrank my "other" space by 2 gigs by turning off iTunes Match and only syncing mail with my Gmail and Yahoo accounts (not syncing notes, calendars, address book and such).

Did you ever get the 'Other' To go away? I have synced with iTunes, restored from backup, turned on and off itunes match, rebooted, restored, updated to 6.1.2 then 6.1.3 - still 11 GB of other....

SO FRUSTRATING

This lack of storage totally makes the phone worthless - no new videos/pictures? miniscule music/video library? No room for new apps? GET IT TOGETHER APPLE.

Hi - just something that helped reduce "Other" on my iPhone by multiple GB. sorry if this is somewhere else in the chain.

Photos and especially videos sent/received via text eat up large portions of available memory and are stored as "other" (at least it seems this way). I wiped out all of my text conversations and my Other shrunk from 8GB down to 1.4GB.

That seems kinda drastic especially without a way of exporting this data.

only if you have some need to keep old text chains. you can save any pics/videos you want out of the texts to your photo album so they're backed up in whichever way you use. for me, space for desired audio, video etc. far outways old texts.

Well, I've tried everything in this thread and I managed to go from 7.5G of Other down to 5.32G. Only thing left is to Restore to factory defaults and manually redo everything. That won't happen.

Let's see if what I read recently will actually happen - T.Cook said they will allocate some people to this forum to offer assistance. Here is where it's definately needed.