If youre an iPhone user, check your storage now by selectingSettings, thenGeneral,and theniPhone Storage.
Youll probably see a lot of recognizable categories eating up your storage apps, photos, and so on.
But there is one, often rather large category, that may raise concerns: Other.
Its shaded light grey and often represents a significant proportion of the overall storage available.
What is Other?
For more detail, scroll down and tap the Other category (right at the end).
There is one, often rather large category, that often raises concerns: ‘other’.
It doesnt say much just that it includes caches, logs and other resources in use by the system.
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Caches, however, can be a much greater problem for clogging up your Other storage.
Nobody wants to see the buffering wheel spin.
Why is it taking up so much space?
Here, it’s possible for you to see Facebook is consuming 2.17GB.
Looking through the list of apps and their storage allocations will quickly show how storage is being consumed.
In this screenshot above, for example, you’re free to see Facebook is consuming 2.17 gigabytes.
However, if we look on the App store, it says the Facebook app only requires 255.4 megabytes.
So somehow the app is occupying an additional 1.9GB.
Where is this extra 1.9GB coming from?
The Facebook app only requires 255.4MB.
How do I clear Other or get rid of it?
The most effective solution is also the most radical.
How can I stop it getting so large in the future?
Unfortunately, cached files will be recreated with most common iPhone usage.
But there are some things you’ve got the option to do to reduce storage consumption.
If youre not keen to reset, try exploring the apps using up cache space on your iPhone.
Social media apps are a good starting point as they often cache lots of images and videos.
Another likely culprit is your web internet tool (typically Safari on most iPhones).
From the tweaks menu, scroll down to Safari and select Clear History and Website Data.
This will remove most cached data associated with your web internet tool.
From the prefs menu, scroll down to Safari and select Clear History and Website Data
Great.
Any other iPhone storage tips and tricks?
If you want to keep going, consider removing old SMS and iMessages.
Under tweaks, scroll down to Messages, then to the Message History option.
The default is to keep messages forever.
Changing this to a shorter duration can reduce space requirements considerably.
The default is to keep messages forever.
Changing this to a shorter duration can reduce space requirements considerably.
A final option is to consider offloading apps.
Modern iPhones let you remove infrequently used apps.
While this will not necessarily reduce your use of cache storage, it can free up valuable space.
A final option is to consider offloading apps.
There is no simple solution to managing iPhone storage usage.
