I Just Deleted My Old Ipod and Its Not Letting Me Set It Up Again

Back on the topic of iOS deejay usage, we have several solutions to that persistently annoying "Other" space yous run into in iTunes, which sometimes tin have up huge amounts of space that are seemingly impossible to recover. We will evidence y'all exactly how to become your "Other" infinite back from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, though the precise crusade of that Other size growing and so large may differ from miscalculations and misreporting from iTunes, to actual files on the iOS device taking upwards lots of space.

Follow each of these simple tips and yous'll go that space back on your device once and for all!

i: Set up iTunes "Other" from Taking Upward Big Amounts of Space on iPhone, iPad, iPod

This very helpful tip was sent in by a reader who discovered that mysterious iTunes "Other" infinite was erroneously reporting a truly massive number, in this case 14GB taken up out of a 16GB capacity device… this is clearly an fault and if the problem is that significant it'southward usually just a matter of forcing iTunes to recalculate the iOS devices usage:

• Connect the iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on to a computer and launch iTunes
• Click on the "Summary" tab and curlicue downwards to 'Options'
• Click the checkbox side by side to "Open iTunes when this iPad (iPhone) is continued" so that is is unchecked, and so click information technology once more so that information technology is checked

Presumably this works because information technology forces the iOS device to recalculate the "Other" space, which is supposed to exist relatively small-scale at well-nigh 500MB-2GB, depending on overall device capacity. That Other space holds things like your Contacts, SMS, MMS, and iMessages databases, settings, caches, spider web history, etc, and it's very unlikely for information technology to exist anywhere nearly the huge numbers that are occasionally reported.

This tip comes from ane of our readers, and several others have chimed in with positive results, here's a adequately pregnant case:

Afterward unchecking then checking "Open iTunes when this iPad is continued", I went from 37.7GB of "Other" space down to 1.79GB. Neat.

Try it out, allow usa know if this works for you… but if you exercise attempt that and it's yet reporting large numbers or taking up too much space, the next flim-flam will probably solve information technology instead.

ii: Reclaim Enormous "Other" Space on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch by Deleting Letters

If the higher up trick did nothing, it may exist because your Messages app is actually taking up tons of space, meaning information technology's not just a miscalculation that iTunes is reporting. Yes, seriously, the Letters app tin grow to be quite big, because the data independent in Letters tin can exist everything from texts, movies, to pictures, of every single sent and received text letters, MMS, imessages, from the device. This is particularly true if you ship and receive a lot of multimedia messages. In this example screen shot, the Messages app was taking up 4GB, which shows up equally "Other" in iTunes:

The easy solution to this is to simply delete the letters, the more you delete the more space you will recover. In general, you lot'll want to focus on removing the largest message threads with lots of pictures, movies, and photos that accept been sent back and forth:

• Open the Messages app and tap "Edit" then tap the scarlet (-) button next to each message, and ostend the delete
• Repeat until all Letters are gone
• Reboot the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and so reconnect to iTunes to check on the "Other" size

If the resyncing and recalculating issue did non resolve information technology, so just trashing messages tends to practice the trick for well-nigh users that use the Messages app, and it works universally on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, though it unremarkably has the biggest touch on the iPhone since that device is what is most ordinarily used for sending and receiving messages.

This Messages size problem can exist exaggerated if yous use multiple devices all synced up with iCloud, because iCloud might be syncing the letters that are sent and received to and from other devices, significant an iPad at home may have a growing "Other" space that is simply the communications your iPhone is having.

"Other" Information Still Huge? Try This to Recalculate the Size

If the higher up tricks didn't work, Ken left a helpful tip in the comments which is working for some users. We recommend trying this after you have deleted any gigantic message threads and already tried the syncing method:

• Launch iTunes and with the iOS device continued, uncheck things you want to sync, excluding apps
• Apply changes
• Re-enable the items you want to sync
• Apply changes over again

That should force everything to recalculate equally well and recover your Other capacity bringing it back to a normal level.

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Source: https://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/itunes-other-capacity-taking-up-tons-of-space-fix/

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