How To Remove “Other” Data From iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

Have you wondered what the “Other” storage on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus? If you connect your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus to your computer, open iTunes, and you’ll see a large amount of space used by “Other” storage. The Other space generally takes up a small space on the iPhone capacity, but if you want to know how to remove Other of my iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus and release the space, the following guide will help. Other storage is other types of information and data that iTunes categorize and manage, which is why it’s placed under “Other.

For those who want to remove the “Other” from iPhone 7 that takes up the extra space, the best way would be to sync with iTunes; in other cases, you may have to go through a full backup and restore process. Read here how to reset your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

What is “Other” Storage?

There are several different categories of data on iTunes and they include Apps, Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, and Photos. If you select one of these categories, you can see exactly what space is used and manage the data.

“Other” storage simply includes everything that doesn’t fit into iTunes’ pre-existing categories. This includes each app’s downloaded data, your Safari browser cache, the Mail app’s cache, downloaded emails and attachments, pages for Safari’s reading list, notes, voice memos, backup files, and possibly even files left over from jailbreaking your device.

Here’s how to remove “Other” Data from iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus:

Turn on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus
Open Settings -> General -> Usage
Tap on any app
The Documents & Data shows the total size of the data stored by the app

This is not strange or something unique. Things like these happen and you’ll just need to figure out a way to safely clear these data so there’s enough space on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.

Clearing out Other data isn’t straight-forward and can be hard sometimes since there is no way to remove all the data at once without deleting the app completely. iOS doesn’t come with a switch for this. Nor does iTunes.

But PhoneClean is an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus cleaner application, which is dedicatedly designed to free up space on iPhone 7; clean App cache, cookies, and history; sweep off media temp files, etc. This is an alternative to removing “Other” data from your iPhone or iPhone 7 Plus that is much easier than manually clearing all the data.