Now, though, the 'Other' category ballooned to 24 GB, much larger than the couple GB it was before. Three restores and a iTunes restart later, I got it working, with all ~30 gigs of music and loaded. When I tried to sync my iPhone after that, iTunes wouldn't recognize it and I had to do a restore, even though everything looked fine on the iPhone. No syncing issues, or overly large 'Other' category. I just figured out where the 'Other' space on my iPhone 6+ came from.įor me, it became a problem after I restarted my mac while iTunes was syncing. Is there a fix for this? It is getting old having to delete all my music to make room for all this. Update: I synced it again and now it went up to 2.53 GB. I hardly use my phone for the apps (use my iPad for most of that) so it's not like I am doing a bunch of complicated apps with large data sets. Is there a definitive fix or something different I can do for this recurrning problem? Obviously I cannot keep restoring my iPhone once ever week or two to recapture disk space.

I am on iTunes 11.1.3 on Mac if that makes any difference. Today, about 2 weeks later, I went sync and to my amazement it was up again to 2 GB of 'other'. Initially that seemed to work and I was in the hundreds of MB of 'other' for a while. The only remedy I could find that did anything was to restore my phone from scratch, which is a pain in the -ss, but I did it anyway. It was up to about 4-5 GB as I recall, which is ridiculous especially for a phone advertised with 16 GB. As soon as I upgraded to iOS 7, I started seeing a lot of my space being taken up by 'other'. I have an iPhone 5 with 16 GB running iOS 7.0.4. I have the same problem it seems many are having. If there is one official definitive response on how to keep this from happening and I missed it sorry. I have seen this question posted a lot but I don't believe I've ever seen Apple post a definitive response.

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