iOS 5 update ate up my available space!

I'm having the same issue, maybe apple will weigh in on this?

Same problem but maybe not as bad. I used to have 4 GB free on a 16 GB iPhone 4, now I'm 6.4 GB over. It won't allow me to sync my music as a result.

I saw this as well. 7GB of "other" now, with no space left.

Like some others, I saw the "other" spike up after syncing album artwork and "Genius data" to the device.

Anybody know if this is a universal problem or if iOS5 is working normally in most cases? Is it perhaps limited to a few certain devices?

I have had this exact same issue. ios 5 other ate up 2.27gb on my iphone4 and 1.somthing gb on my son's ipod 4g. It seems conected to the amount of music you have on your device. My son has about half the music that I do. Plus I also had other music related issues. I am a stickler on my cover flow art and have noticed that some of my album art that previously appeard is now missing on both devices but still present in itunes.

I am not an iphone expert by any means but I think I got it figured out why. I choose iCloud to sync my stuff instead of with my computer. The amount I had set to sync to iCloud was about 6.6 GB and that was about the same size as my 'other' storage. When I turned off iCloud sync, it went away and ios5 only uses an extra bit for the new features. I also had not synced yet with iCloud, so I wonder if the 'other' was what was to be pushed to the cloud and then removed once I did that. I never synced with iCloud, just went back to sync with iTunes on computer. I can still do that over wifi, so its no big deal for me because I did not want every picture from my iphone sent to my ipad instantly.

Same happened to me. Would love some Apple direction on this.

Same thing here appened. I've just opened the email that apple sent me about the icloud confirming address thing. After that i took my iphone and go to settings then icloud. The icloud recognized my phone. I unplugged it and plug it back and tadam ! Backup complete and no more space trouble. Hope this help !

I have the same issue. I updated my Ipad 2 and my Iphone 3GS, and I went from having 7 gb of free space on my ipad and 5.9 gb of free space on my iphone, down to 1.2 gb and 2.3 gb. Has anyone contacted Apple about this? Is there a solution to this issue, or does this have something to do with the Icloud update?

After the upgrade to my 32GB 3GS, I wasn't able to sync any of my apps/music. I had over 25GB of "other" taking up all of my space. I followed the advice above and unchecked all of the sync options in iTunes. This emptied my iPhone and got the "Other" space down to about .5 GB. I'm now in the process of adding each option back one-at-a-time... apps first. So far, so good. I'll report back later with my final results.

Good luck,

Chris

Ok everyone, try this to fix the issue:

• Stop the iOS device from syncing
• Uncheck all items EXCEPT your apps (ringtones, music, movies, tv shows, podcasts, itunes U, books, & photos)
• Sync the iOS device. At this point, once the sync is complete, the OTHER storage SHOULD mostly go away
• Re-add your invidiual items (ringones, music, movies, etc...) ONE BY ONE, syncing after you add each one back.

Right now my iPhone is almost done re-adding everything back onto it that was there pre-iOS 5. I still have to re-sync my iPad (had to interrupt when phone sync problem started), but the OTHER storage is no longer an issue.

For those using iCloud, not sure if this will work for you as I haven't dared try to move my multiple alias MobileMe to iCloud yet, nor have I bought into Lion either.

Above all, don't panic. For many of us, we've been through this for what, 5 years now? We'll get through these little hiccups :-)

UPDATE: iPhone finished syncing, but a review of the Music item under iPhone 4 revealed that not all songs had finished syncing. Going to need to continue pushing the sync button a few more times to ensure everything goes back where it belongs.

You might try just restoring the iPhone rather than going through all the checking and unchecking. That seems to be solving my problem. I also disabled the iCloud sync - that's my guess where the problem lies.

I had the same "other" space problem on my iPhone 4. I followed the advice to unsync all data except apps, and that seems to be working. But honestly, this is an iCloud issue. As soon as I turned off all the iCloud syncs, the other space practically disappeared.

I might be the only man in the world to say this, but I like MobileMe and I use the iDisk cloud a lot with zero complaints. I'm writing a book, so I type on my computer and then backup to multiple sources, including MobileMe. Then, I can at random take a look on my iPhone at the document, or at work maybe visit mobileme.com and take a look, share the file from there, etc. With iCloud, my understanding is that I have to use one of the Apple apps (cough* $$) to then share this way.

I'm having the same issue on an iPad2. I have unchecked everything except Apps and turned off all iCloud options. I have 19GB in Other. This is going to really tick me off if I have to restore from scratch - I hate losing all my application data.