How to get rid of other data on iPhone? - 1

I have an iPhone 3 (not much space) and I'd like to add more music to my phone, but there isn't enough space because of this "other" section. What is this section and how can I reduce it?

"Other" is app data and settings (including your ebooks in app date), Safari History and bookmarks, Notes, Calendar entries, the camera roll, text and email messages and any photos associated with contacts, - items that do not fall into the media category - apps, music, books, TV Shows, Movies, podcasts and so on.

I have read that "other" should be around 250 - 750 MB in size. Of course, the more files that you have on the device, the larger"other" will be.

If you see 4GB or 5GB of "other" that is probably indicative of a corrupt sync or bad files on the iPad. Sometimes syncing again will clear it up, removing and then resyncing photos might help as well. Sometimes the only thing that works is to restore the iPad.

You can actually see what apps are accounting for the storage on the device. Go to Settings>General>Usage>Storage - tap on the app and you can see how much document and data storage each app is taking up in the documents and data setting.

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