Four iOS devices filling up with Other, what is it?

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Four iOS devices filling up with "Other"

I hope I can get some help with this problem.

Applecare has been no help whatsoever after hours of conversation..

I have (2) iPad Airs and (2) iPhones 6. All running iOS 9.0.2. All connected to iCloud with the same account.

The same problem with all devices since I upgraded to iOS 9.

They are all 16 GB devices, iPads worked fine for almost 2 years, iPhones for 1 year.

Apps and supporting data have been managed so that there is usually 4-5 GB available free storage.

Every day or two (randomly on each device) I get a warning of no available storage. I go into Settings/General/About and the available storage is shown to be 0 bytes.

I connect the device to iTunes, and see that all the free space, more than 5 GB, has been taken up by ?other?. It wasn't there yesterday.

Again, this isn?t a gradual thing. It happens within a day, sometimes even after the device has been unused for just a few hours.

Sometime a re-boot will clear some space, other times I have to do a backup and restore.

Then in a day or two ?other? fills up again.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Just_Me_D]

Re: Four iOS devices filling up with "Other"

Hopefully, the information found via an iMore Blog article can shed some light for you. You can read the article via the following link.

http://www.imore.com/what-other-storage-category-iphone-and-ipad-and-how-fix-it