I have an iPhone. I absolutely love it, well almost. I purchased the 16gb 4s iPhone back in May. I’ve barely had any issues with it (which is a huge plus considering I have had phone issues with almost every single phone I have gotten before). I loved that everything from my iPod touch synced right onto my iPhone, it’s very user friendly, and I love being able to play my music in my car with my existing transmitter since I got rid of my iPod touch when getting the phone.
Until a few months ago I hadn’t been concerned with the space issue of my 16gb phone. When I first received the phone, although it’s 16gb, I actually only get about 13.5gb to use because the phone’s software takes up the other space. I find that a little annoying, because to me the phone software shouldn’t be included in the 16gb space.
When syncing the phone I always noticed there is an “other” section listed that takes up some of the 16gb space. At the beginning it was less than 1/2 a gb so I didn’t give it much thought. However over the past few months that 1/2 gb has turned into 4.5 gb. Now it would be nice to know what exactly that “other” section includes so I can erase it to have the space available once again. I’m a huge photo/video taker and always download all kinds of ridiculous apps, plus I have all my music on this phone so I need every mb of space I can get my hands on.
Tonight I decided to do something about it. First I googled information on deleting the infamous “other” and found something to do. I did it and viola 3 gb space changed from “other” to “free”. Then I deleted everything I could possibly think of, notes I didn’t need, messages, voicemails, call logs, contacts I didn’t talk to. I even transferred all my pictures/videos to my computer and deleted 350 of the 420-some that I had on the phone. After all that was said I had over 5 gb of free space (after having 0 this morning). I was so excited.
Then to cement the changes in iTunes I synced it with my computer. And all of a sudden the “other” section increased even more to almost 5gb now. I have no idea what in the world happened. Everything that I cleared and deleted is still gone, but yet somehow tons of space is being used again. WTF.
I’m going to call Verizon tomorrow and see if they can figure out what in the world is going on. Hopefully they get it fixed. I do not appreciate having a 16gb phone where I’m only allowed to use about 8gb.