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Q: What is "Other" on the iPad's Storage (iOS 5)?

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After upgrading to iOS 5, I'm seeing multiple gigabytes being taking up by what is qualified as "other." What exactly is this? I am not carrying any music, movies, books, photos, etc on my iPad 2 (32GB WiFi + 3G). Anyone have any idea what is in this "other" category and how to remove it?

iPad 2, iOS 5, 32GB, 3G (Verizon)

Posted on Oct 18, 2011 9:27 PM

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Q: What is "Other" on the iPad's Storage (iOS 5)?

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  • by fueradeljuego,

    fueradeljuego fueradeljuego Aug 15, 2013 9:29 AM in response to endlessct9a
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    Aug 15, 2013 9:29 AM in response to endlessct9a

    i have a pretty obvious solution to this that I have not seen in the other posts.

     

    I had 16 gbs of "other" taken up.  That's a lot!

     

    I went back and looked at my camera roll and saw a video that I had shot with the iPad of a lecture that was 1 1/2 hours long.  I couldn't get any more information.  I then exported it to my mac using iPhoto.  Even in iPhoto I could not see the real size.  So I copied it to my desktop and there I saw that one video was 14 gbs!  I removed it from my iPad, restarted, and now the "other" is down to 2 gbs. 

     

    So beware of videos that you have created using the iPad's camera.  They are huge!  And are apparently listed under "other."

  • by AppleTVguy,

    AppleTVguy AppleTVguy Dec 28, 2013 10:20 PM in response to fueradeljuego
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    Dec 28, 2013 10:20 PM in response to fueradeljuego

    If only it were that easy.  I have now tried restores, deletes, and checking for videos.  I can't figure it out. I turned off document storage and everything else I can think of.  I WANT MY 2 GB BACK!

  • by marvin8788,

    marvin8788 marvin8788 Dec 30, 2013 5:38 AM in response to AppleTVguy
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    Dec 30, 2013 5:38 AM in response to AppleTVguy

    it could due to the iOS software for the ipad ...

  • by JamesG0,

    JamesG0 JamesG0 Jan 17, 2014 6:53 PM in response to roaminggnome
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    Jan 17, 2014 6:53 PM in response to roaminggnome

    I tried restoring, and got error 21..

     

    Please help, somebody.

  • by andersoncooper,

    andersoncooper andersoncooper Apr 24, 2014 6:35 PM in response to endlessct9a
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    Apr 24, 2014 6:35 PM in response to endlessct9a

    I just found out that "other" can also be current downloads. A restart or restore will bring the "other" space down but then it will grow as iTunes begins downloading again. This problem is made worse by not allowing me to delete the pending downloads (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5400647). This problem has been going on for years. C'mon Apple! Looks like I have to download about 12GB of data before I'm able to delete it.

  • by joeldav,

    joeldav joeldav Jul 16, 2014 3:32 PM in response to andersoncooper
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    Jul 16, 2014 3:32 PM in response to andersoncooper

    For anyone having this extremely annoying issue I found a fix for the ipad download iexlporer just google it, it's free and works like a charm once you've installed it do the following:

     

    1. View the media tab on the left

    2. expand the downloads folder

    3. Delete everything inside apart from the .sqlitedb

     

    I then pressed sync on itunes (don't know if you have to do this) and a few seconds later the other space was reduced from 16gb! to a few gb and I was able to download the video again.

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