My iPod Classic died last year, so I splashed out on a 128GB Touch model. I only use it for music, so I deleted as many apps as I could to make room. I’ve been gradually adding music to it, but now have no space available.
I have 10.68 GB of “Other”, and can’t get rid of it. I’ve looked on forums but nothing I’ve tried has worked. I also paid for a program called PhoneClean, which somehow managed to free up about 3 GB without reducing the “Other” amount.
If anyone has a solution, I would be eternally grateful.
I think it’s basically the operating system of the device. My iPod pro is the same, you don’t actually get 160g.
I’ve never really got to the bottom of this – iOS devices always have an ‘Other’ area that grows over time to a somewhat huge size. Having asked various questions on support sites over time, I’ve never been able to get to the bottom of it. It’s most likely a cache of some sort, but of what exactly?
The only real fix is to reset the device, which is impracticable.
If it was the operating system you would expect the size to remain fairly stable, not grow over time.
*cough*
*mutters behind hand*
Windows.
Apart from the perhaps not too helpful “buy a FiiO” have you looked at the data usage of the other apps left on your touch? Over time these apps’ cache grow so check the data usage versus the actual size of each app. If the data usage is bigger then delete app and re-install. Or buy a FiiO and a 500gb micro-card and listen to the music!
Have you got a 500Gb card then Lodes? Mind me asking where/how much?
A SanDisk from those nice people at 7 Day Shop – can’t remember exactly but “was £99.99 now £32.99′??
Are you sure it’s 500gB? If so, please either paste the link or send me one!
I have 2 microSD slots on my Fiio and replacing one of these with a 500gB card would mean I can store all my music on there.
You can get 400GB for £55 or 512GB for £99.99 on A*az*n.
Some Fiios (such as my X3.II) can only read up to (IIRC) 400GB.
500GB of music?
Civilians.
*sniff*
MC – it was one of those one-off deals which 7 day shop send out daily but I’m sure there are similar ones elsewhere
Lodey makes, in jest, a good point. You could flog the Touch and buy a Fiio and a micro SD card, which would be future-proof. And it would sound better, and have a longer battery life, too.
Fiio X1 is £89. The touch-screen Android X5 is £300.
microSD is £15 per 128GB.
Hmmm? Long time ipod touch user, had one since 2011 and have used it pretty much daily. The apps I have no use for, I have an iphone for that but as an ipod it does fine.
So when it dies, and I know it will eventually, Fiio is the way to go then?? Heard them mentioned, if can transfer files then all fine, I assume get rid of iTunes and put the files in whatever the Fiio uses for playlists on your computer?
As per clearing space on a touch, I have 64gb, does me fine and ive gone away from filling it completely, tend to leave 3gb odd space on it.
That is one of the few problems I have with the Fiio, the other main one being a slightly messy UI – its support for playlists is not brilliant. As a player of hi-res music though I would doubt you can do much better at the price. Get an X5 or later if you can, the Android interface knocks spots off the old OS and scrollwheel.
The only Fiio limitation is it won’t play old DRM aac files if downloaded from early ITMS.
Say that in English! 🙂
He says there’s a misplaced cucaracha on the thermistor.
…and when he tried to reverse the polarity, an unexpected power surge sent him through the rift. She’s not been the same since.
Prior to 2009, iTMS downloads were 128kbps and Digital Rights Management protected. They could only be played on the devices registered to your account.
After about 2010, all were DRM-free “iTunesPlus” format at 256kbps.
Fiio won’t play DRM-locked content. Neither will an Android device, or anything non-Apple.
I use Iobit advanced systemcare on my Pc Windows 10. They offer another product as an addon ‘Ion transfer3’ – https://www.iotransfer.net/.
I used to use it to clean my ipad and iphone. I later stopped using it because it had a habit of sending ‘pop ups’ on my PC which I found annoying and I had trouble getting rid of the software. I contacted Iobit and I did with their help uninstall the programme. If you are tech savvy it might be worth having a look and maybe contacting them to see if the programme will do the job. It did seem to ‘clean’ and find added space. I hope it helps. If it does and you find it useful please let me know and I may start using it again as I did like the cleaning aspect but not the ‘pop ups’.
I’ve settled on using the phone with a big SD card. Spotty download, MP3 or Podcast via an app. For decent quality I repair to the lounge with the big stereo. I still have an iPod but I’m waiting for it to die then I won’t replace it.
I read somewhere that Apple are likely to be closing the iTunes download Music Store at the end of March – that’s in just over 3 weeks. If you have vouchers, use them now!
I’ve not heard mention of this on the various other music sites I visit, but I’m not surprised.
I purchased a few albums from the service over the years, but as they’re not in lossless format I no longer bother to listen to them. Some were never updated to iTunes Plus either, and are still in 128 kbps DRM format, presumably due to contracts expiring.
I presume Apple will allow tracks to be downloaded for some time after the store closes.
I’ve another problem with iTunes syncing to my phone – a constant stream of ‘Unknown Error -54’ messages popping up whenever I try to add files. They don’t happen on every copy, but happen enough to be annoying. In addition, and possibly related, some albums pick up the wrong artwork.
It may be due to my use of Apple Lossless format files, all with artwork I’ve embedded myself (and not artwork downloaded from the store).
An update, if anyone is interested.
I looked at my iPhone last night and noticed something like 3GB of Other / Documents & Data that I couldn’t account for. The lost data didn’t appear to be associated with any particular app, and removing suspect apps made no real difference.
Hence last night I decided to reset the iPhone to factory defaults. Not only did this remove all of this unaccounted data, but the phone’s performance has increased dramatically.
*WARNING – TECHNICAL EXPLANATION FOLLOWS*
I suspect that the lost data is stored outside of the usual app storage area, and as iOS is derived from BSD Unix, it’ll be in something like /tmp or /var/tmp, an area globally writable by all apps. Whatever is going on, one or more apps are writing here and then not cleaning up after themselves. Searching directories with a lot of files adds a performance impact too, hence the performance improvement once the device was reset.
Goddamn ‘other’ – makes me furious