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What does "other" mean on an iphone?

I can't figure out what "other" means as far as how much is in the phone.

iPhone 3G, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 4:43 PM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2012 4:46 PM

"Other" is all of the data on your phone that is not music, videos, photos, apps, or books. So it includes iOS metadata, email messages, text messages, notes, calendars, Safari cache, Siri cache, iPod database index, plus all of the data from all of your apps. And probably a few things I missed.

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What does "other" mean on an iphone?

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