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SparklyFluff Author

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HUGE amount of yellow "Other" space being taken up on iPhone 4S. Please help!

I looked around the forum for a solution of the huge amount of yellow "other" space that is being eaten up on my iPhone 4S. Even after a restore, the yellow "other" space is taking up 7.1 GB of space on my phone, up from 6.5 which is what it was before the restore. What is going on? Usually I just erase some texts (I send a lot of pics to my hubby and mom,) erase some voicemails and it drops down to around 1 GB. But I've noticed since iOS 6, that hasn't worked. 7.1 GB is ridiculous. Is there ANY way at all to get rid of it without having to erase absolutely everything about my phone and start over from scratch, including downloading 40 apps all over again?

This seems to be a problem a lot of people have been having over the past few years, why has it never been addressed? There needs to be some sort of utility or something that cleans things up if they have problems with junk not getting deleted or corrupted files sticking around.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 21, 2012 4:31 PM

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roaminggnome

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Posted on Oct 21, 2012 4:32 PM

If restore from backup did not help, then you will need to restore as new.

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montmeag

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Oct 22, 2014 9:47 AM in response to SparklyFluff

I had that problem as well. I found a suggestion on the web that helped. It took my "other" category from 9.5 GB to 1.1GB. In iTunes, uncheck the option to "automatically sync when this iPad is connected" then re-sync. Might help you, might not.

Oct 22, 2014 10:07 AM in response to SparklyFluff

I have a similar problem - my “Other Data” matches (closely) to the amount of music I sync. If the sync fails for some reason, the “Other Data” jumps to an astronomical amount, so much that I can no longer sync the phone because there isn’t enough space.

Factory restore is a solution, but it takes hours, plus you have to restore all kinds of passwords and so forth. A big pain. I’ve been trying to use an app (iPhone explorer) to manually delete the music that shouldn’t been there, but even this takes time (though less time than a factory restore).

HUGE amount of yellow "Other" space being taken up on iPhone 4S. Please help!