Storage almost Full message appearing constantly on my iPhone 4

This is what worked for me, as I had the same issue. Really frustrating, but once you understand whats needed its a fairly straight forward fix 😉

Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer.

Uncheck everything under Summary, Options section in iTunes

Then for photos and music uncheck sync photos and music under their respective tabs.

Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer again.

The go to Preferences and check under devices. Delete all your oldest iPhone backups, but make sure the latest backup is at least present in the list.

Then go to your iPhone under Settings, General, Usage. Delete music and photos & camera info (assuming all your photos and music is stored on your mac).

Then eject your phone, and restart it.

Quite iTunes and open it again.

Put in your iPhone and it should show that there is no photos or music on it. This process should have freed up the cache and backup data that is taking up unnecessary space.

Back up and sync to iCloud and then to your computer again.

Then for photos and music check sync photos and music under their respective tabs. Select custom playlists you created and albums if iPhone shows its over capacity.

Now sync again. And boom!! 🙂 it should work and sync all your music and photos/videos you had saved in iPhoto etc.

No need to restore. Now, being pedantic, but back up to iCloud and computer again 😉

Enjoy 🙂

Hope this helps you guys. Now, if only Apple can update iTunes to sync custom iPhone created custom playlists that one creates on the fly, two ways, without causing conflicts or duplicates in iTunes, from iPhone to iTunes 🙂 Been asking for this feature for over 3 years now lol. Would also be nice to have iTunes show messages / sms's and allow the user to create custom lists to group and sorted messages like it does for its photos from iPhoto 😉

G

4 months of suffering later, this was the solution!

For anyone suffering the Full Storage (Other) issue after performing a clean restore, turn off iCloud Backups among your iPhone's iCloud settings and perform a backup to iTunes. It should grab those nuisance backups and delete them from your iPhone.

If you have photos stored on your iPhone, deleting the photo cache can free up storage space.

iTunes: Understanding the iPod Photo Cache folder

I 've got similar problem - after update there is 16.5 Gb in Other - and I cannot do anything, this is not Musit Foto Etc. may be that is previous iPhone back-up? How delete it?

I started having the same issue this week

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Was somehow at 0 space left on my iPhone4 (with iOS5) and got the message.

That was fine, I deleted some unused apps and made approx 500mb of space.

Still was getting the message, so I deleted more. Now I have almost a GB free and am still getting the message quite frequently.

I shut off the iPhone are rebooted hoping that would clear it out, but it still continues.

I have no video installed, few photos and mainly apps and music because I lost everything when I updated to iOS5 and reinstalled from a fresh format.

So it's pretty clean considering I've had it a year...

Why can't I simply check "Ok, Understood ~ don't remind me anymore!"

1GB should be PLENTY of free space to not receive the message every 20 minutes or so.

Grrr..

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I, too, just started having this issue yesterday. My iPhone 4 shows 1.3GB free but I'm getting this Storage almost full message very frequently.

Interesting that it didn't show up for a week after the iOS 5 upgrade. I haven't added anything to the phone in at least 3 days since I've been out of town.

When I get home I plan on syncing and doing a full restore. I hope that will fix this.

Add another one to this list - my free space seems to fluctuate between 1 and almost 3 GB free without doing anything. The phone (iPhone 4 w/ iOS 5) has become sluggish even after closing all apps and turning off/on.

::Update:: I have 2.7 GB free, yet I still recive the message.

I'm confused.

This is a continuation to my previous post...

Yesterday it drove me crazy with the prompt... Storage space is low etc.. Every chance it had it popped up.

Overnight it cleared up with no action of my own.

Today, it hasn't came up once.

Hoping it's all clear now.

An update on my situation. Almost immediately after I posted this yesterday, I stopped receiving the message and the sluggishness went away.

I have yet to receive the message, or experience any sluggishness since.

I just got this message today. So I hooked my iPhone up to my mac and it said I have 8.3 GB left. I don't understand what's going on! 8.3 GBs is a lot of room left, right?

My issues cleared up on it's own....

Now one thing I did do however was download a few more apps. I figured, if I am getting this message anyway, why not download some new stuff to fill up the extra space I had made, right?

It may have been coincidence that my issue resolved itself after I added a few new apps - but go pick out something free on the store and see if it helps you too.

Worth a shot.

Yup, happening to me too. I have nearly 2gigs left of storage. This is getting frustrating. Come on apple....help us out here!!!

Solution......do a complete restore from backup. Worked for me. I noticed I had no room left all of a sudden. Hooked my iphone to my mac and saw that "other" had taken all my remaining space. After restoreing I got back 4gigs of space taken by "other".