What is in my other category on my iPhone?

This "other" is taking up way too much space on my phone, and I do not know how to get rid of it. It is not my recent calls, apps, photos, notes, amount of texts, or mail. I do not know what it could be, and it is bothering me.

Try to restore your iphone.

What is in the sky made of?

The truth is that only apple know what is in that "other" bit and they arent going to tell us.

I have heard explanations of it ranging from, it's the phones operating system, to people saying its all your texts and emails and webpages and so on. People even say that it's reserved for RAM for the phone or that it's temp storage for all the stuff your phone does in the background.

Basically, your guess is as good as ours and unless your part of Apples iphone development team, you're never going to find out.

  • What's with the Other: Category on my iPhone? Everytime I plug it into iTunes it goes up a little.yesterrday it was at 0.95 MB now its at 1.01 GB. Is there a way to make it go down other then having it restored? And also what makes up the "other" category on the iPhone?
  • What is the other category on my iPhone storage? When I connect my iPhone to my computer I see nearly 5.0GB of "other" in the storage. I only have a 16 GB iPhone so it's clearly a problem. What is this "other" and how can I fix the issue?
  • What is in the Other category on my iPhone storage? I have an iPhone 4 (not 4s), and when i plug it into my computer, it says there's 3.5gb of Other, but i don't know what's in this "Other" category. I cleared all my web history/cache/cookies, and deleted tons and tons of emails along with all my text conversations and recent calls, but that barely did anything. What else can i do to reduce the size of this category?
  • What is in the other category on my iPhone 4S capacity? 3.5 gb of my phones capacity is being taken up by this others category and now my phone has no space. What is in it and how do I clear it?