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How much space does iOS take on the iPhone?

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I noticed that the "other" space is rather large so I was wondering how much of that was the operating system and how much was junk.

Anyone know? I was unable to find specifics on google.


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The iOS itself is not factored into Others. The iOS partition is already taken out when you see your max capacity in Settings or iTunes. Others usually consists of cache, fragmented downloads for apps that have sandboxed downloading like Mercury browser, image caches, messages caches, some app data, cookies, history, and the list goes on.

So for iOS 7.0.6, for the non-iPhone 5S small form factor devices, you should get around 13.30-13.37 available memory if you're on a 16GB device. iOS will round upwards for flexibility purposes, so 16-13.37 = 2.63, of which, you'd lose about 300-500 from storage conversion (KB to MB is 1024:1 rather than 1000:1). So that gives you about 2.1 GB. The iOS itself only takes up 1.5 or so, leaving 600 as leverage space
 
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Ok cool. Thanks for the explanation.


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Nothing. It just makes me wonder h


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