Hi guys, David and David here from payetteforward.com. In this video, we're going to explain what "Other"
is in iPhone storage.
So other can be a lot of different things usually cached videos, pictures, and web page.s
It can also be some miscellaneous system data or your Siri voices.
Unfortunately, there's no magic button that says delete all this other on my iPhone, but
there are a few tips we can recommend to you to start chopping away at it.
Right.
And if David said cached photos videos, you didn't know what that means.
What that means is
that when you see a photo or video on your iPhone, your iPhone actually
saves a copy of that even if it was like on a website, let's say, so that every time you
go back to that same website,
it doesn't have to redownload the same photo over and over and over again. Same concept
with photos that you see in the photos app and videos on iTunes and messages. Your iPhone
saves data, so it doesn't have to keep redownloading the same data over and over again that's in
the other app. But on your iOS device, it will be deleted from your iOS device eventually.
According to Apple's website ,your device
automatically deletes those cached files when it needs more space and they say "you
don't need to delete them yourself," but there are a lot of other things that you
can do and we're going to talk about that right now.
So the first thing to do is clear the Safari web history and data. Pretty simple. Right.
Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Yep, scroll down to Safari. There it is.
Scroll down here tap Clear History and Website Data confirm. Erases your browsing
history stuff like that. Right and all those pictures that you've seen on the internet
that are now saved so it doesn't have to redownload again, you know are now gone and that can
be huge.
So next let's head over to iPhone Storage and check out what some of the recommendations
are.
There are a lot of great built-in recommendations here.
So back to the main page of the Settings app tap General and then tap iPhone storage and
we're both doing this because we both have some different recommendations on our iPhones.
David said before that the Messages app has a big impact on this other thing because every
Somebody sends you a photo in the Messages app or a video those are big files.
And so if you're getting a lot of friends that are sending you photos that can add up
real fast.
So on my iPhone, it says auto-delete old conversation. So I can save 913 megabytes by removing the
messages and attachments that were sent and received over one year ago.
But you know, I'd like to have a paper trail. And review large attachments, which was also
a way to just go into that Messages app and take out just the biggest things like the
biggest photos the biggest videos and that's a relatively new feature because what you
used to have to do was just delete everything from the Messages app up until let's say 30
days ago.
However, that's still a good idea for some people to turn on that setting.
So I just want to show you that real quick.
If you go back to General and then back to Settings and then scroll down to Messages
open that up and then scroll down here to keep messages under message history. Tap on
that and you can say I just want to keep my messages for one year or for 30 days. If you
choose 30 days or in one year,
obviously the older messages that happened a year ago,
see you later!
So that will help to keep the other space in your iPhone nice and clear.
So let's take a look at my iPhone storage real quick. iCloud photos.
I can save over 10 gigabytes by enabling iCloud photos.
That sounds like a good idea.
I can also offload unused apps which is actually our next tip in this video is to offload the
app
you aren't using. Right, when you delete an app on your iPhone all the configuration...
Let's say it's a game — all your saved games, they're gone
because you've deleted the app.
Yeah, but when you offload the app your iPhone saves your stuff in the app, and then it deletes
the app itself.
So you've downloaded works like it did before so here.
I can either enable offload unused apps or I can go one by one down
my list of apps here.
This... I actually kind of prefer this method just in case my iPhone decides to offload
something that actually need in the future.
So for example, I haven't used the Draft Kings app in forever.
I'm going to tap on that and then tap Offload app. Confirm offload app. Right.
So this app size of
150 megabytes is now gone.
Yep.
All right, high five, and documents and data 13 kilobytes.
That's like nothing that would fit on a floppy disk.
So I want to go back just go back to the same spot and tap reinstall app and then it'll be right
there.
So if you really concerned about the other in your iPhone storage, there is one more
step you can take. We really, really don't think it's super necessary.
But if you really want to get rid...This is if you have a problem.
Yeah, like a serious problem and you need to get this other thing smaller because Apple
clearly says and we clearly say like you don't need to worry about this if you have all this
extra space in your iPad or iPhone just don't worry about it.
Just stop watching this video right now, right but if you are really worried, a DFU restore is
the way to go. First backup your information on your iPhone then for the DFU restore,
we'll leave a link in a card up above and the description section below.
So that's what other is an iPhone storage.
And those are a few tips you can use to really chop away at that other.
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