Best Tips: Removing Data Category 'Other' In The iPhone - You just bought an iPhone, but surprisingly the remaining space in the internal memory you suddenly live a little bit when you just install the application ?
If you check further, you probably will find that in addition to the category of applications that clearly provide information about the level of consumption in the internal memory space for each application , there is also the category of ' Other ' who surprisingly has take up so much space in memory .
One of the forum users Reddit recently complained that the iPhone 6 128GB hers suddenly declared that the category ' Other ' in the mobile space has been consuming as much as 38GB . Given that category is a collection of random data , it is difficult to remove the files in it directly .
For those of you who suffered a similar fate and wants to secure more space , here are some tips from a variety of sources that you can try :
- Try to open the entire thread of your old messages in the iPhone , and delete a thread that is not used / rarely used . Thread the messages are very prone to eating space in the internal memory , especially if the conversation with your colleagues is accompanied by a wide variety of photos , animated GIF or video short duration .
- Check the level of consumption data from each application . Do so, open the Settings option > select General > Usage select > and select Manage Storage . Once you get into the Manage Storage option , you can access the Documents & Data option for each application to determine what types of files that take up so much space . After that you can choose to clear the cache / data , or uninstall and reinstall if you want a faster process .
- If both ways are still able to provide significant results , then just backup the data and settings from your iPhone to iCloud and then proceed with a full factory reset and reinstall the file that you saved earlier from iCloud . This method is considered the most effective way , because iCloud will only back up the data core , without including the data from the category ' Other ' in the iPhone . So when you re-install all the data and settings in iCloud , then the data is ' Other ' was not going to be included .
If you check further, you probably will find that in addition to the category of applications that clearly provide information about the level of consumption in the internal memory space for each application , there is also the category of ' Other ' who surprisingly has take up so much space in memory .
One of the forum users Reddit recently complained that the iPhone 6 128GB hers suddenly declared that the category ' Other ' in the mobile space has been consuming as much as 38GB . Given that category is a collection of random data , it is difficult to remove the files in it directly .
For those of you who suffered a similar fate and wants to secure more space , here are some tips from a variety of sources that you can try :
- Try to open the entire thread of your old messages in the iPhone , and delete a thread that is not used / rarely used . Thread the messages are very prone to eating space in the internal memory , especially if the conversation with your colleagues is accompanied by a wide variety of photos , animated GIF or video short duration .
- Check the level of consumption data from each application . Do so, open the Settings option > select General > Usage select > and select Manage Storage . Once you get into the Manage Storage option , you can access the Documents & Data option for each application to determine what types of files that take up so much space . After that you can choose to clear the cache / data , or uninstall and reinstall if you want a faster process .
- If both ways are still able to provide significant results , then just backup the data and settings from your iPhone to iCloud and then proceed with a full factory reset and reinstall the file that you saved earlier from iCloud . This method is considered the most effective way , because iCloud will only back up the data core , without including the data from the category ' Other ' in the iPhone . So when you re-install all the data and settings in iCloud , then the data is ' Other ' was not going to be included .