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My 16g, iphone 4 is showing that music is less than 1g, photos a little over a 1g, and apps around 500mb. Yet I only have 65mb of unused memory with 13.5g being used. Where did my memory go?
 

phreddyl

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Operating system takes around 5gigs. Check your text messages and email. Attachments and photos also take up memory
 

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I've deleted all my sent emails, and have no emails with attachment or photos in my inbox. None of my text messages have photos, I delete the text photos shortly after receiving them

ps...I'm original poster. I decided to sign up
 

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Thanks for signing up. You can do an iCloud backup and then do a restore. That should free up some memory. Also see if it's an app that's the culprit. Settings storage and manage storage.
 

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Ya, i backed it up today onto my laptop, was thinking of doing restore but paranoid I'll lose a lot of bookmarked stuff on my maps app. Went into manage storage and that is where I got the numbers quoted in original post
 

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