How To Delete Documents/Data On iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

For those that have recently purchased an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, you’ll see a “Documents and Data” which is similar to “Other” and it takes up a large part of your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus storage space. Once iPhone owners don’t have any storage space left, they want to know how to delete “Documents and Data” on iPhone.

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Once you know what “Documents and Data” is, it becomes very easy to delete documents and data usage to create extra space. The iPhone documents and data is a collection of stuff (including stock apps, third-party apps, cached data and even iCloud documents). The following are different ways to learn how to delete documents and data usage on your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

Stock Apps
With so many apps available for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, you probably have a lot of stock apps like: Safari, Messages, Music, Videos and Mail. A majority of these apps use and keep data that can take up memory. Since these apps are considered part of documents and data usage, it’s important to delete any stocks apps to help free documents and data iPhone space.

Mail: Removing old mail and attachments
If you use the standard Mail app on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, there is lots of cache stored on your Apple device. The following will help you remove all old mail and attachments that is store in cache and data. One simple way of clearing out all mail cache and data is:

Turn on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus
Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar
Select the email account
Select on Delete Account and confirm
Now, re-add the account by tapping on Add New

iTunes: Music, Movies & TV Shows, Thumbnail cache
When you make iTunes purchases on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, besides the music and video content, the rest gets stored in “Documents and Data”. This could include thumbnail cache, or related-files that are not some kind of media files.
One of the best things you can do to clear cache is to remove all music from your iPhone and then re-sync it through the computer.

iCloud Documents
When using iCloud for documents or data it should not take up to much space for the documents and data iPhone iCloud usage. But if you have a lot of extra iCloud documents and data, you can remove documents individually from Pages, Numbers etc., from iCloud documents. You can delete documents and data iPhone iCloud with these following steps:

Turn on your iPhone
Go to Settings -> iCloud
Select on Storage & Backup
Now select Manage Storage
Next, under Documents & Data, tap on each app
Now select on Edit from the top-left
Select on Delete All to remove all documents. Alternatively, select on the ‘-‘ against each document to remove it individually.

Photo Stream
For those iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users that have many different albums and photos in your photo stream, you, deleting these images will help you delete documents and data iCloud space. You can turn off photo stream from Settings -> iCloud -> Photo Stream. This will remove all photo stream instances from your iPhone which can help you reclaim some free space in the “Documents and Data” section.