![]() ![]() The easy solution to this is to simply delete the messages, the more you delete the more space you will recover. In this example screen shot, the Messages app was taking up 4GB, which shows up as “Other” in iTunes: This is particularly true if you send and receive a lot of multimedia messages. Yes, seriously, the Messages app can grow to be quite large, because the data contained in Messages can be everything from texts, movies, to pictures, of every single sent and received text messages, MMS, imessages, from the device. If the above trick did nothing, it may be because your Messages app is actually taking up tons of space, meaning it’s not just a miscalculation that iTunes is reporting. 2: Reclaim Enormous “Other” Space on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch by Deleting Messages Try it out, let us know if this works for you… but if you do try that and it’s still reporting large numbers or taking up too much space, the next trick will probably solve it instead. This tip comes from one of our readers, and several others have chimed in with positive results, here’s a fairly significant example:Īfter unchecking and then checking “Open iTunes when this iPad is connected”, I went from 37.7GB of “Other” space down to 1.79GB. That Other space holds things like your Contacts, SMS, MMS, and iMessages databases, settings, caches, web history, etc, and it’s very unlikely for it to be anywhere near the huge numbers that are occasionally reported. ![]() Presumably this works because it forces the iOS device to recalculate the “Other” space, which is supposed to be relatively small at about 500MB-2GB, depending on overall device capacity. Click the checkbox next to “Open iTunes when this iPad (iPhone) is connected” so that is is unchecked, then click it again so that it is checked.Click on the “Summary” tab and scroll down to ‘Options’.Connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to a computer and launch iTunes.This very helpful tip was sent in by a reader who discovered that mysterious iTunes “Other” space was erroneously reporting a truly massive number, in this case 14GB taken up out of a 16GB capacity device… this is clearly an error and if the problem is that significant it’s usually just a matter of forcing iTunes to recalculate the iOS devices usage: Follow each of these simple tips and you’ll get that space back on your device once and for all!ġ: Fix iTunes “Other” from Taking Up Large Amounts of Space on iPhone, iPad, iPod ![]()
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