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What. Is the " other" category

Greygoose_ipad

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I'm trying to find out what's on my iPad since its now full. The summary page has a category called "other". The other categories make sense to me (video, photos , etc.).

I want to identify what's in "other " to see if I can delete something within it to free up some space.

Any ideas on how to do that?

Thanx

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Greygoose_ipad

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Found the info through google. Restarted iPad and other category dropped significantly.

Problem solved.....

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This is the definition I found from Apple's support forum:

"Other" includes data such as contact information and photos assigned to contacts, calendar events, Safari bookmarks/cookies/history, notes created with the Notes application, SMS messages, email stored locally or cached, and 3rd party application data created and stored by the application.
 

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That's good to know - Thanks! I have a lot of pictures in messages maybe that's what's eating away at my memory
 

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Goodness, I have over 1,000 contacts and just synced their Facebook photos with them. I didn't think about that eating up space. I am okay for now, but will have to tuck that piece of information away for future reference.

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