The color coded bar will show how your available storage is divvied up with other appearing as a gray color.
Iphone 6 storage full other.
Next let us have a look at 3 of the most common reasons which lead to iphone 6 6s memory full.
My iphone 6 says my storage is now full.
There seems to be something else taking up space but its not listed in the manage storage list.
Connect your iphone ipad or ipod touch to your computer open itunes and you ll see a large amount of space used by other storage.
You can free up this space by leaving itunes behind and managing the storage directly.
The other storage category contains miscellaneous files that aren t included in the main categories like photos and videos apps and email.
For the most part it doesn t mean anything and if you have plenty of storage space on your iphone or ipad you don t have to worry about it.
It was at 10 3 gb but with no additional apps downloaded it has jumped to 12 2gb and even after deleting photos and videos it remains at 12 2gb now.
There is no denying the fact that we keep on installing different types of apps even when we hardly use majority of them.
Other storage is just other types of data that itunes can t display and manage for you.
Your iphone is supposed to manage these caches to keep your storage from becoming completely full but it doesn t always do a great job.
If you have ios or ipados 13 your iphone or ipad storage is full and the storage is mostly taken up by other storage update your device to ios or ipados 13 6 1 or later.
How to reduce the size of other data.
Itunes won t let you delete any of this other data to free up space.
The other category on your iphone and ipad is basically where all of your caches settings preferences saved messages voice memos and well other data is stored.
Some of the most important other files include.
Update your device an issue in ios or ipados 13 might prevent the system from freeing up storage for you.