Q: Documents & Data taking up 2.39 GBs

Are you using iCloud Drive?  It is an upgrade to Documents & Data.

iCloud Drive FAQ - Apple Support

Brackenclan wrote:

 

My Documents & Data section is taking up 2.39 GBs on my iPhone 6.  Can anyone tell me why this is?  Is there a way for me to delete anything to take this number down?

Go to Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage. Tap Manage Storage.This will list the usage for every app on the phone. Tap on any app to see how much that app is contributing to Documents & Data.

The app should have a way to clean up its own data. Deleting the data without using the app will probably break the app. If the app does not provide a way you can delete the app, reboot the phone, and add the app back. That should start with a clean app with no data. The reboot is important, because the phone doesn't cleanup orphaned data until it restarts.

You might consider paying extra. Apple lowered the price a couple of months ago to 99¢ a month for 50 GB. That's a lot cheaper than Dropbox or box.com.

Hi Brackenclan,

icloud gives you only 5gb for free and its poor in this times because a lot of things use that space . that happen to me and a couple of things I do:

- disable icloud backups of my devices ( now I do it with Itunes)

- erase the things I dont need ( if you have a device with ios9 you can do it with icloud drive app, also from the web or from a Mac )

- disable the option to saves photos on icloud

- disable the option from whatsapp to save automatic the photos

- erase old conversations from whatsapp ( when the app do the backup is to large if there is a lot of conversations specially if this have a lot of pictures)

- Some apps saves pictures or videos on icloud. try to configure this.

But..

if you are a person who love have a lot of pictures on icloud, do backups automatically on icloud, don't worry about what files the apps are saving on icloud I recommend to you to pay for and extension of the service ( more capacity on icloud)

I have same problem.  When i go to Itunes and sync phone.  It says 30.5 GB documents and data.  I erased all old emails and check the apps for lots of storage but couldnt find anything.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.