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ale-lago Author

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Phone Storage

How do I clear out the “other” portion of my phone storage? It’s taking up 51GB and I’m out of storage on my phone

iPhone X, iOS 12

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 1:54 PM

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Axel Foley

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Posted on Jul 19, 2020 2:05 PM

It appears that most of your data is stuck in the other category. I only know of one way to clean up the storage and minimize the "other" category and here is how- (This involves erasing your iPhone and restoring it to factory settings and then restoring from a back up file).

Back up your iPhone to a computer as shown here ➔ Back up your iPhone to your computer.
Erase your iPhone and restore to factory settings by opening Settings ➔ General ➔ Reset ➔ Erase all content and Settings
Restore your iPhone from that back up file on your computer (Step 1) as shown here ➔ Restore your iPhone from a computer back up.

I know that this may turn into a time consuming project however it is worth a try.

Axel F.

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