Social Media. More Button Icon Circle with three vertical dots. It indicates a way to see more nav menu items inside the site menu by triggering the side menu to open and close. Dave Johnson. You can clear the "other" storage on your iPhone to free up space and make it run more efficiently.
The other storage category is mostly filled with cache and system files created by Safari, the Mail app, and iOS itself. Here's how to clean up a significant portion of your other storage files on your iPhone.
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Deal icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. In the detailed view you can: Offload the app, which frees up storage used by the app, but keeps its documents and data. Delete the app, which removes the app and its related data. Depending on the app, you might be able to delete some of its documents and data. This content can't be automatically deleted. Other: Non-removable mobile assets, like Siri voices, fonts, dictionaries, non-removable logs and caches, Spotlight index, and system data, such as Keychain and CloudKit Database.
Cached files can't be deleted by the system. System: Space taken by the operating system. This can vary based on your device and model. Use recommendations to optimize storage In the Storage section of Settings, your device might offer recommendations for optimizing your storage. On a Mac with macOS Mojave Connect your device to your computer. Select your device in the Finder or in iTunes. You'll see a bar that shows how much storage your content uses, divided by content type.
Move your mouse over the bar to see how much storage each content type is using. Here's a list of the types of content on your device, and what each type includes: Audio: Songs, audio podcasts, audiobooks, voice memos, and ringtones. Video: Movies, music videos, and TV shows. Apps: Installed apps. Books: iBooks books, audio books, and PDF files. Your iPhone Storage menu will divide that bar up top into familiar categories like Apps, Media, Photos, and Mail, but also an Other category that is sometimes very large.
One of the biggest culprits for Other growing out of hand is streaming lots of music and video. But streams have caches used to ensure smooth playback, and those are categorized as Other. And if you send tons of texts with images or video, the caches for that can start to fill up a lot of space. If you have a lot of Safari tabs open on your iPhone, you might want to close most of them, too. You might also want to change Messages to save fewer old messages.
Open Settings , then Messages , and scroll down to the Message History setting. By default, Keep Messages is set to Forever , but you may want to change it to 1 Year or even 30 Days to reduce the data that the Messages app caches.
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