How To Clear "Other" Storage on iPhone & iPad! End the Frustration!!
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- If you have an iOS or iPadOS device that is constantly out of storage, here are some quick ways to free up space. I also talk about the dreaded "other" category including what is stored there and how to get rid of it once and for all!
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My daughter has an iPad with 32 gigs. Storage was full. We deleted almost everything, yet the “other” was filled with over 20 gigs. Did extensive research on this issue. Had to restore it. Apple is absolutely pathetic for not addressing this issues. They constantly create superfluous nonsensical additions in iOS updates, yet cannot tackle a serious problem. 😶
Straight up FACTS they always make all these useless products and they can’t even fix one problem.
I think its on purpose that they dont allow to remove temp files, really greedy and stupid.
They just want you to buy another product from them. But I think the only way to truly erase the "Other Storage" is to erase your phone or tablet over and over again! I'm doing it and the storage is getting lessened little bits at a time like 100-200 MB, but I don't know if it'll work entirely, I'm still trying it out!
People are always saying ios is better than android but in reality android is much better at reducing gigabyte usage and much better with less lagg
Tho in my opinion neither is better just comes down to preference and what needs you have cus they also have their own separate uses
I just deleted 15gb worth of videos and photos, only to gain like 6gb storage space. I was suspecting this has been happening for ages since I wasnt able to have so many apps anymore, so I took screenshots before deleting and found out how the space is not increasing accirding to the 15gb I deleted. This is pathetic. But tbh my old samsung android tablet did the exact dame thing, I had to factory reset all the time to actually gain back the storage space.
I’m gonna update genshin impact even if it kills me
I can’t even get out of the demo version
BESTIE SAME MY PC'S LAGGY SO I NEED IT ON MY IPAD AS WELL
same
Same
Same u-u
Bro his “photos” has more than my whole iPhone storage 💀
Ik💀💀💀💀
Haha same 😭🤚🏽
Cat pics
Facts😂😂😂
tbh bro and i’ve deleted hella stuff alr 😂
As a genshin, honkai, and project sekai player, this was much needed.
this is literally why i came😭
i literally just wanted to pull for nahida but my storage was full
Me rn 😭
Lmao same
@@yonazworld that’s what she said
This is very helpful, thank you so much. I’ve been dealing with this problem for so long.
I have 32GB and the Other section took up so much storage.
Same
Same
Yes!! 2nd biggest!!!
Same ☹️
SAME
=)
I deleted lots of home videos, apps etc and still had that message pop up… then I found out apparently the iphone/ipad saves a backup to restore or somehting like that, but when you turn your phone off and back on again, you’ll see the available storage room go up, cause it has been deleted!
@AndrexZxms turn off and restart your phone after deleting!
After deleting, not just from my camera roll, but also from the trash bin in the photos app, I checked the storage indicator bar in settings - general - iphone storage, but nothing changed… only after my battery had died and It was charging and I checked the storage again, did I see a change in amount of gb left, so restarting always work on my phone to actually clear storage!
It worked! My ipad had used 28.9 GB. Now i restarted it and it has just 16.5 GB used! Thanks mate!
@@bynahelemaal brooo thank u so much it worked!
Oh my god ur a savior, I literally had like 22 GB of other storage while I only got 32 at maximum It dropped all the way to 14.9 GB
Thank u byna I had 30.8 Gb out of 32 gb I restarted my I pad after deleting my photos and I had 25 gb thank u soo muchhh
Everyone is saying “other is taking 6gb of my storage!!!”
And then there’s me: “Other is taking up 29 of my 32gb :’)”
Same as me and it’s increasing daily
Mine takes up 31 of my 32 :’(
Same it is always Adding!
@@sStormy God..
@@Baby_Pengu SAME LIKE WHY I OFFLOADED ONE APP BECAUSE I NEEDED TO REDOWNLOAD MY APP (and I use it daily when my iPad offloaded it:,) ) AND MY OTHER WENT PFF THE CHARTS-
Pretty sad that you need to reinstall an iPhone to remove cache. Why can't they make a cleaning app.
They make "cleaning" apps... but they've gotta nasty rep. Plus companies cant make something that remotely deletes on your phone. Has something to do with contractual agreements. (Take me with a salt shaker for the last part)
Damari i wish
Because they want you to run out of space, so you pay for icloud storage!
@@philc8703 that doesn't even work cause it will still glitch the hell out due to low space availible.
@@philc8703 you talked about paying for icloud storage. Which people do but it causes the "other" cache in the data to fill the drive and still causes the thing do the screen spin marry-go-round and crash due to lack of space. I never said that backing up and reseting the thing wouldn't fix it mainly due to say at the end the guy says the "nothing short of a factory reset" wipes the cache clean :D
But you are so right on the icloud storage cause go to an apple store and they try like hell to get you to buy it. I said things that made customers leave that store that day cause they caught on. I'm not allowed there no more. Wonder why -_-...
apple is doing this on purpose because it forces some people to purchase a new device. pure evil.
Wow. THANK YOU! I've been researching this and working on this problem for months -- and then just not using my iPad because I couldn't get it fixed! Re-setting is DEFINITELY the best option after all of this--THANKS!
This is so annoying, I had “Other” take up 6GB! When I deleted storage, it went to “Other” and I still had no space left. Thanks for the help!
Only 6 gb? Mine takes up 31 😂
@@sStormy mines is 37😂
BRuH
Mines takes up 39gb
@@sStormy oh goodness 😰
Apple, all I want in iOS 15 is a purge “other” storage button
JESUS CHRIST THAT WOULD BE SO GOOD
@DQ Plays Games I have 20 GB in my “other” and it’s taking so much
Iphone made it that way so they can get $$$$$$$$ 🙄🙄😒
@@figure3790 I was actually thinking of that-
Here from the future: post-Apple event, they barely did anything, no purge other storage button either
“ Back up and reset your I-“
Me: NOPE
Exactly I have 5gb iCloud storage I can’t backup and I’m not buying cloud storage like srsly
I’m literally so scared of doing that because I age parental stuff on-
I am too scare of resetting my iPad and the only reason why is because (this is a completely true story btw)
Alright I had a let’s say…. About 2-3 year old iPad and it was pretty good! Until I reset it one time just because I would ALWAYS do that when I was done with it, I charged it, and then well….. it wouldn’t turn on again and I hadn’t backed up any of the stuff I had on there and now it’s all gone…😕
DISCLAIMER: this may not happen to you, you just need to be careful when doing so.
Nice name
You’ve one a new sub!
Another thing that might help is syncing it to iTunes just in case there is corrupted data that a sync can fix. The problem with restoring is that sometimes that other stuff gets backed up too, so once you restore from back up other might be the same. The nuclear option is to restore and set up as new which sucks I know.
is there other way now or apple fixed this?
@@aliciapark6241I’m guessing no cause mine is doing this
now listen i'd LOOOOVE to reset my iphone to clear up my space, BUT I CAN'T CAUSE MY MACBOOK HAS NO MORE SPACE BECAUSE OF THE EXACT, SAME, ISSUE! I HAVE 200GB TAKEN FROM MYSTERIOUS "OTHER" AND "SYSTEM" STORAGE. I HATE IT HERE OMMMGGG
Same, on my iPad i can’t even update it :/
It just kicks me out for some reason :/
NSA is hogging all the space.
Same here
I’ve always been frustrated by this. I upgraded from 32gb to 64gb and my other almost doubled, very frustrating
From my experience, the deleted files and free up space didn’t added up, it may added up one day, but a week later suddenly there’s crazy amount of free space been discovered by the iPad itself!
So buying more storage didn’t even help?
@@bjwkusgxjdks they want you to give apple money
I have 64gb and 4apps, this angers me so much.
And I have 8 non apple preinstalled apps.
My iPhone memory was full then I did a back up & restore via iTunes a few days ago & that literally freed up 20GB.
Actually that's the only way to clear up other files (I almost tried everything on the internet)
How did you do a restore via iTunes
@@learntoinvest3306 bot 👎
How u do that
How’d u do that
Android is miles ahead in managing storage
Android is miles ahead in almost everything, not just storage management.
I delete so many photos in my camera roll but it still says I have no storage. The same thing happened to my best friend, at this point she has 1 photo and like 2 apps. I just bought 200 GB worth of iPad storage, and it still says my storage is full. But the thing is my categories is only photos and apps. And I only have like 40 photos. My mom has more than 1000 photos and her storage is not full. Explain!!
Is nobody gonna talk about how that phone has 512 GB 😭
His messages take up almost as many gb’s as all my gb’s 😭
Delete them all
That’s what I did
@@jeong239 my mom gets mad when I delete my texts 💀
@@adrienne.8544 SAME
Great tips - especially the reset one - I will give that a go on my daughter's ipad - thanks mate!
Did it work ?
@@Don-mf4kq it works sometimes. The first time when I had this problem it cleans the ‘other’ memory just with reseting the phone but when this problem pop ups again it doesnt work now. Try it and give me info :)
Will resetting it delete all of my apps? I need storage but I’m not going to delete my apps
@@Libby1116 yes ..its like having a new device
@@ledwards273 I figured it out but thx anyway 👍🏼
Just cleared 40 gig worth of stuff! I cleared right along with the vid! New Sub!
Another way of freeing up some storage is going into the “photos” app, (the actual app) and deleting some photos, but after doing that apple will keep those photos for another 30 days, go into recently deleted, select all of the photos, and delete them! It fully deletes all of the data of the photos and it has saved me a ton of space
Thank you so much the video helped me remove most of my “Other” storage space now I have used 22.4 GB used out of 32 GB
When i deleted some apps to decrease the app storage i had a bad feeling that it went up
I have 4 apps, 200 photos and 5 videos and my storage is full 😐😐
That happens to me too 😒
@@bokutossock9551 how much gb do u have 5??
@@bokutossock9551 I’m sorry,how much GB do you have?? 1?
@@bokutossock9551same bruh I have 32 gb
I seem to recall reading a while back that if there is a really big "other" category that doesn't go away, it could be from an iOS update that didn't install correctly (or at all).
TYSMMMM I was trying to download Genshin impact for the update and I deleted most of my iPad but that other was taking 14 GB! And I cleared 10GB and now I can play my fave game! ❤️
IVE TRIED EVERYTHING I STILL CANT GET GENSHIN IMPACT 😭
@@grinddwhore oof-
@@grinddwhore big sad 😫 but that pfp
I’m doing all of this for genshin too! XD
@@akiwilol I now need another device to play Genshin 😞
TYSM, I FINALLY CAN DOWNLOAD SOMETHING IMPORTANT:).
also, another tip. You can delete all your unwanted files, not that big of a change, but really helped!
People: **complaining with 65 or 32 GB**
Me with 16GB: 👁 👁
👄💧
I used to have 16gb and now i have 128, damn
This was happening on my wifes macbook. No pop up but I couldnt update the dang thing. I ended up reloading everything fresh and brought back in the files via icloud. It was frustrating but it gets it done. Thanks for the video as always Andrew!
Omg I literally hate it when I make a video and then when I try to upload it here comes “storage full” I I downloaded 3 games planning to redownload them after I uploaded the video. AND IT STILL TOLD ME MY STORAGE IS FUL!! I got so annoyed because I uninstalled like 3 games and I had to sacrifice more and I wasn’t doing that so thank you for this video.
I remembered that 16gb was a good storage option.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’ve been needing my other storage to go down for so long! So thank you. This was so helpful. I wish you an excellent day
I've done multiple resets on my 32GB iPad 8 running iPadOS 15.0.2, but the other STILL takes up huge chunk of my storage... It is mostly from a game called Genshin Impact, but the "Other" storage NEVER went above 4.5GB for me when I was on iPadOS 14.8. Now, the storage shows me that the game itself takes about 3.2GB (app size) and it seems that all of its cache data and files are dumped into "Other" category, making that part of size to be huge. Is this just a bug on iOS/iPadOS 15 in general? I just cannot seem to find a way to clear this :(
SAME THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME ASWELL
kinda the same problem after I upgraded my iPhone 7 to ios 15.4
I cant find a way to clear up my storage,the only option is since I’m a kid,I’ll have to ask my mum to buy me a new device.Great!She’ll probably say no to that.
ALSO, YOU CAN GET A LOT OF SPACE BACK BY CLEARING YOUR DELETED DATA.
How do you do that?
how
how??
Thank you so much!! I was trying to install a app but it kept saying I didn’t have enough and now I can install it!!
@@yummy2737 GLAD I WAS OF HELP! IT DEFINITELY HELPED ME IN A PINCH. TAKE CARE!
I had a similar issue and when visiting the Apple store near me. They advised me to sign out of my iCloud account, do a hard restart then sign back into my iCloud account.. those steps cleared out the issue I had which was 50GB+ of others/system iCloud storage
Oh man!!! after so many videos, finally a simple answer that fixes this quickly!! Thank you for taking a second to post this comment.
Does it really work?
@@user-dj5jk3ny7o if you are facing the face issue and tried other methods and it was not fixed, then I guess there is no harm in trying. Since i fixed this issue 9 months ago it never happened again to me.
Thansk i tried it worked
I tried this and it deleted everything.
I recently got this message for the first time. I was surprised to learn that all the podcasts I have been listening to simply remain on my iPhone and were taking up so much space. The best way is to go into the individual settings for each subscription and choose to only keep the most recent episodes on the device. iOS recommends keeping the 3 most recent episodes which I selected for most of the subs and GBs of storage was reclaimed.
Yep, that was our problem. Auto-download on Podcasts. Nearly 10GB of them!! Stay subscribed but just turn off the auto-download feature within each podcast title. Made a huge difference for us.
My friend never gets that message.Lol😕
Everyone is like : “it takes 32GB on my storage !!”
me : “dude wth, 86GB STORAGE??? JUST FILLED WITH FREAKIN “other”
As a genshin, project sekai player, capcut editor, and anime/viewer my pain is gone.
What I learned from being an Apple user for years is that you need an iCloud Storage subscription to avoid this inconvenience.
It makes everything easily accessible, specially when you’re in that ecosystem.
And you won’t need to buy the highest storage of iPhone/iPad/Mac ~ 128GB w/ iCloud Storage Sub is what I would recommend
I’m broke so I can’t get a subscription
@@sStormy thisss like bitch I can’t afford a subscription like 💀
I purchased ICloud storage on subscription, but it did not reduce the ‘ other’ component on my ipad☹️
@@joyn4338 i knowwwww, like it ain’t solving the ‘other’ problem stfu
@Tweed Penguin you can’t afford not being classist? That’s sad
look i live in mexico 10 bucks is 200 pesos *mxn currency. with 200 pesos i can eat for a week and when you learn (that i hope you don’t have to) what it’s like to live a day you’ll know you can’t afford to pay 1/4 of what you need to eat in some subscription that shouldn’t be needed in the first place. Hope you have a good day :)
the intro was awesome (that upset face) 😂😂😂😂
Good info. Friend of mine asked me a question and I was surprised to not be able to figure out. How do you delete a photo off of your phone without it deleting from your iCloud storage? He asked someone at Apple and they couldn't figure it out either. Seems like this should be simple.
You can’t. If you want to keep photos you have to find an alternate cloud such as OneDrive or Box.
As much as we pay for these devices we need to demand that they change that! I don’t understand why they don’t offer a “clean your device” app for free. This crap is ridiculous and plagues all of my devices. I get that they are trying to force us to buy more storage, but it seems like getting more storage still isn’t solving the problem.
Petition to make an extra storage drive just for these files. Like to count.
These companies should have one eMMC/UFS storage chip just for their respective Firmware OS, and another eMMC/UFS chip just for user data.
@Rob Odd That's what the two integrated flash storage chips are for. One strictly for the OS Firmware, and the other for the User Storage. For the OS Storage chip, 64 GB is enough room for the base OS, and all future updates and patches. The User Storage chip needs to be at least 8× more storage capacity than the OS Storage chip (i.e.: If the OS Storage chip has 64 GB, the User Storage chip must have 512 GB in it, and every single GB cannot be assigned anywhere else other than for User Storage.)
I really need more storage.
After doing everything else, do what he says at 7:20 - back up and manually restore
That's for saving me time
@@TrixzyTV sigh
Here is the apple storage solution for this bug for “other” storage which takes lots of space ruclips.net/video/_IU-l7uLQEI/видео.html
YO BRO THANKS SO MUCH U LEGEND
Why do the vidoes on my ipad take up so much space? Do you know how to lower quality of photos and videos in order to free up storage?
Thanks for your suggestions! I freed up almost half of my iPad space!
Don’t forget to delete your “Deleted” photos for good! They are saved in an album that allows you to recover or permanently delete photos and never get them back again.
Photos, slide down, recently deleted, delete any photos left.
How did you managed to use more than 300GB on your phone? Are you storing 4K videos locally on your phone?
Yeah I do 4K 60 on iPhone XS 512
This was so helpful! I cleared a lot of space from this, thanks!
Holy calzone, you can’t describe how much this helped me, it cleared a whole whopping 4.3 GB. Since I’m a content creator it helped so much, thanks for the tips
That’s good for you, apple needs to fix this crap, cause I know most of us use phones on a daily basis, and this crappy storage is annoying.
I think syncing in iTunes can free some space but it fills your computer.
Please make a similar video for the Mac!
literally nothings working
i got all my 'other' out of my pad. THANK YOU!!!!!
My iPad literally went from 15gb to full on like a minute, this is much needed
SAME
I thought it was a virus
Please do this for Mac my one has been having other take up space and I don’t know what other files to clear except for caches
Find the trouble apps, delete them, reinstall
Install cleanmymac x
I love you for having white collar saved❤️
I got that message for the first time about a month ago. My 256G iPad went from about 90G used to 256G in one day! That’s when I discovered the “other” storage.
Him: *has basically no apps*
Me: *my entire storage being apps*
Ty very much I did it in my iPad
My ipad is like: “your ipad storage is full” and im like: yeah cuz your making it full my taking up 6.31 gigs on the system and 7.84 gigs on the “other”
7:19 Ryt now, I’m going through this situation 31Gb out of 32Gb it’s sucks but I don’t want to backup😩
Same.
Fr
Same
Bro why does apple have to do this
@@boxmanco.6199 yes sir 😩
How do like change IPADOS (17.3.1) it’s taking so much space 13GB and i have a ipad.
And i play genshin
Ayy, my fellow Genshin players tryna update the app 😂
@@-ChxrryPit- its taking too much it (genshin) already stole my heart
@@Yena_PenguinChoi lol, we are in this together
You just saved 4 devices! 2 ipads and 2 phones! thanks so much!
literally uninstalled google drive and gained tons of storage back...
if you use google drive a lot, uninstall it from time to time but i usually wait like a day after uploading photos to just "marinate" the uploads lol
This happens to me all time as well. Great information, and thanks for sharing.
I have even bigger issue: to clean / delete iCloud iMessages data specifically when using more synced devices.
This is pure struggle and one of the biggest Apple’s issues for people with basic iCloud 5GB storage...
THANK YOU SO MUCH! BACKING UP AND RESETTING WORKED THANK YOU
Thank you for this- I spent hours trying to find out how to fix some storage bc I had 63/64 and now it’s at 60.9/64!
THANK YOU!! cleared 9GB of my iPad!
Or, as Apple might want, buy a new iPad with larger storage. :)
No shit Sherlock
Or,buy more storage so that they can get more money from ripping us all off :)
Love that color watch band 👌🏼
Android has the same issue. With a 16gb phone most of the phone memory is used for other you may have 3 or 4 gb free.
yeah but w android u can buy storage chips uknow?
Genshin Impact got me here for My 7 year Old ipad her 11 year old Sister Wont Share her Genshin Impact Game literally cry 😢when I make share, Daughter it's not that Serious it's Just a Game!! 😆 It Worked been trying for weeks. Thanks 😊
Thanks so much with out you I would of cried from all of the stress I was so scared thank god
I’ve done everything in this video and nothing has worked I’ve searched up several other videos and there’s still large amounts of space being taken up at this point I’m already down to just three apps and I still can’t even re-download my old ones. Why-
Same. It’s getting annoying.
@@cxtcutsml706 it dose! I’m at a point now where my tablet doesn’t even work
Hmm, that's odd. I have an iPad Pro and have had many other iPads over the years and have never ever seen the message.
Same here
This guy just saves way too much shit
Here is the apple storage solution for this bug for “other” storage which takes lots of space ruclips.net/video/_IU-l7uLQEI/видео.html
I just want “clear cache” button
that’s all😫
Ik
Thank You so Much! This was really helpful, I have my own YT channel and I couldn’t save the videos but when I found your video I was able to continue what I had left
I'm a little scared to clear history and website data bc I'm afraid it'll delete my videos and picture's
His phone storage has more than my whole family’s devices combined 👀
Spotify eats up a bunch of storage !!!!!
Tidal takes up a lot too
Lego Mario does it too, it took already 2gb
Genshin impact takes up 8 gb
@@livelaughloving2602 mine takes 15..
@@livelaughloving2602 13 and i need more storage for inazuma update
Little note:if you do delete all data in safari in the settings you lose everything until you log back in
iPad : you don’t have enough space !
Me : deletes a 8 minute long video
iPad : YoU dOnT hAvE eNoUgH sPaCe, now it’s in other hahaha brrrrr
For me yt is 11.65 gigabytes and the full storage is 34 gigabytes plz tell me how to increase the gigabytes storage I on iPad Pro 12.9 inch my software version is 14.7
You wanna know why i came here? Its because i took up the whole bar on my ipad. Thank you very much.
same here, it takes up half of my storage which is 16gb. it sucks because im trying to an animation
It used up 76 gigabytes of space on my iPad 🙃
E
I took up like 32gb or something
Just another reason why I prefer anything but Apple, when I delete things off my Android phone they don't magically go to an "Other" storage folder that you cannot manually delete. Apple Support gives the same lame suggestions; "restart your device", "clear your Safari cache", "Update your iOS", or "Reset your device". I had a friend who ran into this issue about 10 years ago, I fixed it but now can't remember what I did. But after updating the iOS, clearing cache, restarting the device numerous times, Syncing via iTunes, with no progress I am just shy of resetting it. What a fucking joke. Billion dollar company can't figure out a user friendly way to implement how to clear out temp files. Bogus. I guess the next step is to watch CNN and Fox News to get unbiased and objective journalism, that will complete the mentality of absolute ridiculousness.
WHY CAN'T apple just be SIMPLE
When I delete. Ton in photos and voice messages I ended up with MORe used up storage, it first went down to 2.8 then up to 3.01
Boi I have no. Photos and I’ve been trying things for weeeks and ur my savior 😩
Andrew which is the Screen Protector that you have on your iPad ?
That is the PaperLike screen protector
It’s almost always iMessages. You had over 17gb on your iPad, which is more than 25% of your total iPad memory.
Me: *Eating Takis in sorrow until I can have storage to edit Nagito Komaeda again*
At last, I found the right video to watch. The issues about system storage on my Ipad was fixed. Many Thanks.
I deleted all my photos I have like five apps and it always says my storage is full so I can’t wait to wach this