What is "other" data on my iPhone?

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What is "other" data on my iPhone?

I got an iPhone 4 just a week ago, but I already have 0.96gb of "other" data on it! I have an 8gb iPhone, so you can see how I don't want so much space to be used over whatever "other" might be. I 0.19gb of Photos, 0.77gb of Apps, and then the 0.96gb of "other". I have no music or videos on my phone. I looked up some things about "other" data already, like clearing safari history, deleting message conversations, and even saw that "other" could be damaged files. I deleted my messages, cleared my history and really have no files other than photos... so what could my problem be? Ever since I got my iPhone it has been like my baby, so I really want to take good care of it and make sure nothing is wrong or corrupted with it. Please help me if you can, it's greatly appreciated 🙂

iPhone 4, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 25, 2012 10:19 PM

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Vara Kasaraneni

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Nov 25, 2012 10:21 PM in response to JoviLovesYou

It might be because of bad segments copied back to phone when you use Restore option. May be my assumption is wrong too. Try taking a backup of all your data and use itunes to update. Dont restore but start new.

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AnaMusic

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Nov 25, 2012 10:29 PM in response to JoviLovesYou

Other is usually around 1 GB...

For what it contains... See this Discussion

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4414445?answerId=19958116022#19958116022

A ' Large Other ' usually indicates Corrupt Data...

First Try a Restore from Backup... But... if the Large Other Persists, that is an Indicator of Corrupt Data in the Backup... Then a Restore as New is the way to go...

Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

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Jayfan34

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Dec 16, 2013 2:39 PM in response to JoviLovesYou

Another option that I believe I just found by accident.

Have been having this problem for over a year and no number of resets or restores were fixing it. During another space crunch I just noticed that all my girlfriends voice memos (which are recordings of her university classes) were being copied to my phone so I deselected them in iTunes. To my surprise after my next sync the other was down from 6 GB to 258 MB.

Looks like even though they are in your music library, Memos get synced as other data.

Hope this helps somebody out there.

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