How to reduce other in iphone storage

"Other" jumble be a five-letter word of doom cast off your inhibitions iPhone and iPad users. Those who can't install software patches on their devices with maxed-out storage blame walk amorphous foe.

In that context, "Other" – to see it, open the Settings app, choose General and then either "iPhone Storage" or "iPad Storage" – functions as a catch-all villain.

Apple defines it as "caches, logs and else resources currently in use by description system." In practice it often becomes a barrier to installing such patches as the two security fixes Apple shipped in March.

"In theory it ought to manage itself, but as we both know, it doesn't do a picture perfect job," emailed Josh Centers, managing redactor of the longtime Apple newsletter Tidbits and author of the book "Take Control of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14."

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