iOS 5 update ate up my available space!

Did you guys fiddle with the "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC" checkbox ?

Mine was ticked and after the iOS 5 update, Other had ballooned to 4 GB and most of my songs (the ones iTunes had to recompress) wouldn't play at all on the iPod Touch.

Unchecked the "Sync Music" box, resynced (which deleted all the music from the device) and Other is back to 0.59GB, which sounds about right.

Same here, this is disgusting. I've restored for the second time because my iPad 1 was unusable!

I found when I restored it got better, but still got this 'other' of 5.5 gb that wasn't there before...

Apple you have been rubbish this time!

No

I've just don'e a clean restore from the ground up when I discovered 5.5GB of other on my capacity, usually between 500mb & 1GB

Now I've got 6.1GB!!!!

What's going on Apple????

Disclaimer: This obviously may not work for everyone but it did for me. These are all assumptions..

Assumed Issue: During the operating system upgrade, the device lost its hooks to the some types of data on the device (i.e. music files, movies, etc.). So all that other data on your device was a bunch of your old data just unrecognized by your device. Assumption: NOTHING TO DUE WITH iCLOUD but more just the upgrade of the operating and file system on the device.

My Devices:

iPhone 4 (32GB) (Latest iOS 4 version before trying to upgrade to iOS 5)

Windows 7 Premium

My appearance:

~15GB music

~5GB video

~2GB apps

~1GB photos

~and the dreaded 20 GB of "Other"

Sum: More than she can handle

My resolution:

1) Perform backup of mobile device in iTunes (I did this before unchecking all the types of media to Sync to mobile device in iTunes)

2) On mobile device, go to Settings->General->Reset->Erase All Content and Settings

3) When this has finished, back in iTunes, perform a restore from the backup.

Consclusion

I believe this re-established all the hooks to my music and video data from my PC to my device and resynced all my apps, music, videos.

If I happen to lose all my data from my apps oh well, I guess I'll just have more Angry Birds levels to master... :-P

I did something less radical but would have gone down that road...

I did a total grass roots restore from the centre of the 'Sumary page' page. Then decided to restore to newest back up and it left me with what I had before. (If not more)

But I agree with you. Just scrub and start again.

Thanks for taking time to put your resoliution up in the forum though.

Ciao! Ade

Ran into the same problem after updating my iPad. Got 10GB more of "other" data, which, maybe coincidentally, equals the total size of my audio and video files.

Also had some other stuff missing on my iPad which are present in my iTunes on the PC, such as apps and album arts, etc. So I just did a full sync from the "Summary" page of my iPad (not a restore). It took some time, but after the sync finished, the 10GB "other" data disappeared.

Actually, even before I did the sync, I can see from the "Usage" page on my iPad (in Setting-->General) that the 10GB was just a "phantom" conjured up by iTunes :-) The total usage amount shown on that page matches what's actually being used.

I ran out of space too, and the problem seems to be that the option on the Summary page to "convert higher bit rate to 128kbs AAC" when I sync music is GONE! I'm not kidding. I run iTunes on a Windows PC, but that option was there until I upgraded my iPhone 4 to IOS 5.0, and now it's gone and I'm short 2.5gb of space. Has anyone else run into this? This is a big deal to me as I store my music in iTunes on a higher bit rate, but I use my iPhone as an iPod and like all of my music on it.

Duh, I found it at bottom of screen. Do I feel dumb! Never mind.

I had this same problem, it took up 8GB off my phone. I went into settings>Safari>>hit Clear History. Then I hit Clear Cookies & Data, and it knocked my capacity of "other" down to .48GB. Problem solved!

Go to settings>Sarari>Clear History, and then Clear Cookies & Data. It will solve the "other" capacity problem after you resync your phone.

After a long journey of digging online, i found a solution that worked for me. I have ios5 on an iPhone4, problem arose for me after updating to ios5. Here is the link, I hope it is helpful for you:

http://whalertly.com/wordpress/2010/05/26/does-your-iphone-have-too-much-other-m emory/

Genius! I have pretty much tried every tip and trick.

This is the only one that worked for me. Thanks "at232"

Answer at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503 worked for me.

I'm thinking I have a very similar problem to everyone else on here, but I feel it has more to do with my songs that have previously been converted to 128kps. I have an iphone 4 and the problem did arise after updating to 5.0. I do not remember what my "other" was before updating since it's been a month or so, but it's around 2.5gigs now; the real problem, however, is the size of my music... before updating i had around 20gigs of music space taken up and roughly 9gigs of free space, after the update (and currently) it says i have 35.6gigs of music on my phone and that i'm 9.7 gigs OVER CAPACITY. Now, ever since the update, entire albums on my phone simply won't play (around a 1/4 to a 1/3 of my entire library!), which is infuriating because i know the data is on my phone because i had all the music on there working before.

The unfortunate thing here is that I would have tried restoring/removing all music and re-syncing but shortly before i updated a friend of mine literally fried my terabyte external hard drive which stored all my music/photos/etc., leaving me without the files for all the music already on my phone. If anyone has any advice that could help me i'd be eternally grateful. And if not, looks like i've got a lot of re-downloading to do...