{"id":13614,"date":"2016-02-18T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13614"},"modified":"2016-02-18T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:57:23","slug":"other-storage-on-your-iphone-and-ipad-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/other-storage-on-your-iphone-and-ipad-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Other&rdquo; Storage on Your iPhone and iPad Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2016\/02\/10\/about-other-iso-storage\/\">Christian Zibreg<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/johngordon\/post\/67573448\">John Gordon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.idownloadblog.com\/2016\/02\/10\/about-other-iso-storage\/\"><p>Say you then launch Videos and stream a five-gigabyte movie that was purchased on the iTunes Store.<\/p><p>The reported storage usage for the Videos app in Settings won&rsquo;t increase at all.<\/p><p>But if you glance at the amount of free device storage reported in Settings, you&rsquo;ll notice it has dropped by five gigabytes due to that streamed video being cached automatically by iOS, thereby taking up five gigabytes of &lsquo;Other&rsquo; storage.<\/p><p>Because the amount of device storage wasted on the &lsquo;Other&rsquo; category cannot be directly checked out in iOS, less experienced users may be left scratching their head, puzzled as to why their reported free storage isn&rsquo;t higher.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The 291-megabyte difference between the 856MB seen in desktop iTunes and 565MB reported by my iPhone is actually caches for the songs I had streamed via Apple Music.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>People who use iCloud Photo Library with the &lsquo;Optimize iPhone Storage&rsquo; option may observe a similar discrepancy in the &lsquo;Photos&rsquo; storage section between iTunes and iOS Settings, due to large caches of photos in device-optimized resolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Zibreg (via John Gordon): Say you then launch Videos and stream a five-gigabyte movie that was purchased on the iTunes Store.The reported storage usage for the Videos app in Settings won&rsquo;t increase at all.But if you glance at the amount of free device storage reported in Settings, you&rsquo;ll notice it has dropped by five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1230,1142,31,1137,224,174,97],"class_list":["post-13614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-music","tag-icloud-photo-library","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-itunes","tag-storage","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13615,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13614\/revisions\/13615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}