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Hi all,
I am still having issues managing the storage on my phone, could I have some help here? I'm seeing the following numbers:
Audio 7.05 gb which I assume is including voice memos and podcasts.
Photos 9.2 mb.
Apps 1.59 gb.
Documents and Data 2.24 gb.
Other 806.9 mb.
How do I manage the last two? What could possibly be taking up 2.24 gb on my phone that I can't get to?
Documents and data includes the content of apps. On the phone go to Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage and tap on Manage Storage under the Storage heading. This will list the data used by each app on the phone.
Documents and data includes the content of apps. On the phone go to Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage and tap on Manage Storage under the Storage heading. This will list the data used by each app on the phone.
Ok, this makes sense now, that's why when I added up the numbers found in storage it came to about 3 gb. Now, I'm having a peculiar problem, when the phone is hooked up to iTunes, it says that it has something like 976.3 mb free, but the phone itself under storage and iCloud usage is showing only 492 mb. Why the huge difference?
Some of the difference is different measurement systems. The phone displays in base 2 units, where 1 KB is 1024 bytes. iTunes shows decimal usage. This is about a 17% difference. The rest is probably dynamic memory used by iOS.
I just checked again, and my memory usage has gone up to 495 mb. Wouldn't iTunes say 501.76 mb was free if it was using decimal notation? I still can't see why there's a more than 400 mb difference in what is free.
iTunes takes a snapshot of free memory when you sync the phone. It doesn't update that number until you sync again. The value on the phone is real time.
Ok, so I just synced my phone with my computer and the phone remained saying 492 mb was free, while the computer actually increased the amount of space it said was free from 974.43 mb to 1.13 gb. I opened podcasts to see if that would make a difference as I have at least one podcast that has been played and is about to be deleted. That actually decreased the amount of space available by 1 mb, even though podcasts was closed before settings was reopened.
accessing documents and data
