This afternoon, I ran into a problem with iTunes 8 and iOS 8 on my iPhone 5. \u00a0When I connected my iPhone, iTunes said that I had 43 GB of “other” data on my phone. \u00a0I had no idea what it was.<\/p>\n
After much wrangling, I finally came up with a solution that did work.<\/p>\n
On the iPhone, I erased it (Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings). \u00a0Then, after the iPhone finished erasing, I reconnected it to iTunes, and let it restore from backup. \u00a0At first, I thought it didn’t work because the iTunes screen still showed the big yellow bar of “other” data. \u00a0A couple of minutes later, it refreshed, and suddenly I had <1GB of “other”. \u00a0I did have to reboot my phone and my Mac a couple of times each during this process to get it to work, and I had to sync twice to get all onto the phone.<\/p>\n
Whew!<\/p>\n
(Edited to add in some reboots.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This afternoon, I ran into a problem with iTunes 8 and iOS 8 on my iPhone 5. \u00a0When I connected my iPhone, iTunes said that I had 43 GB of “other” data on my phone. \u00a0I had no idea what it was. After much wrangling, I finally came up with a solution that did work. … Continue reading 43 GB of mysterious “other” on my iPhone<\/span>