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» 5 ways to free up space on your iPhone or iPad by Kim Komando
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Your iPhone and iPad can help you do so much: communicate around the
world, play games, take pictures and videos, wake you up, help you
sleep, keep your schedule, shop online, the list is endless. Click here to get apps that help you do that and more.
While there's no limit to what you can do with your Apple gadget,
there IS a limit to the amount of stuff you can store on your gadget,
especially if you have a gadget that only had 16 gigabytes of space to
begin with, like this one:
You don't want to be taking video of your kid or grandchild's first
step only to get an "out of memory" message. I've even heard from a
number of people who couldn't upgrade to iOS 8 because there wasn't
enough room for the download.
If your gadget fills up, though, don't worry. Clearing out space
isn't too hard if you know the steps, and I'm going to give you
step-by-step instructions.
1. Clear out apps
Look at your iPad or iPhone now and tell me how many of those apps
you really use on a regular basis. I'm pretty sure there are one or two
you can live without. If you can't decide which apps to clear out, I've
got a trick that can help you decide.
In iOS 8, go to Settings>>General>>Usage>>Manage
Storage. For iOS 7 and earlier it's just
Settings>>General>>Usage. Here you'll see a list of apps and
how much space they use. This helps you make an informed decision about
where to go fat-trimming.
The screen you want looks like this:
Start with the largest apps (remember that one gigabyte is 1,000
megabytes) and decide which ones you really need them. To delete an app
you don't want, simply tap its name. Then tap the "Delete App" button on
the next screen.
Bonus tip: Of course,
you can always delete an app from the home screen as well by tapping and
holding the app icon and waiting for it to wiggle. Then tap the X that
appears in the upper right corner of the icon.
Some apps cannot be deleted because they're built into iOS, and
others you might not want to get rid of. If they're hogging too much
space, however, there is another option.
Tap the app's name in the Manage Storage list and look at the
"Documents & Data" area. That will tell you how much of the app is
downloads or new information. You might discover you can keep that handy
app if you just open it and clean out some of the music, movies,
photos, documents and messages it's storing.
Speaking of cleaning out information, let's start with managing your photos.
2. Manage your photos
Look through your Camera Roll. Are there any accidental photos
there. You know, photos of the floor, sky or doorway? Are most of
your good photos already posted to social media?
To free up space, you can transfer and organize photos and videos on your home computer using iTunes, iPhoto and other programs like Dropbox or Picasa.
For Macs using iPhoto
Connect your phone (or tablet) to your Mac and iPhoto should open its
import window showing the gadget's images and video clips. Then, click
"Import All" or select which specific photos to transfer. There will
also be options here to keep or delete photos.
For Windows 8 users, connect your iPhone or tablet to the computer
then click on the magnifying glass icon in the upper right hand corner.
Type "computer" and hit Enter. Right-click the logo for your phone or
tablet and click "Import pictures and videos." Selection "More Options,"
then "Browse" and select where to import the photos to, which is the
"My Pictures" folder by default.
From this window, you can select which photos to import, and which
ones to delete. Click "Import" and you're all set. You also have the
option to delete the photos from your phone or tablet after they are
imported.
Duplicates
You can also think about the photos that you've already shared
online. When you post to Instagram for example, the Instagram version of
the photo is saved to the camera roll along with the original photo.
You can clear out some room by getting rid of the duplicates.
And speaking of duplicates, did you know that your iPhone saves your
photos not just to the Camera Roll, but to the Photo Stream as well?
Photo Stream saves up to 1,000 of your most recent photos. That's a lot
of duplicates.
First, see how much space the Photo Stream is taking up by using the
steps I showed you earlier. If you've backed up your photos to another
device, you can kill the Photo Stream completely. Go to
Settings>>Photos & Camera>>My Photo Stream and turn it
off.
3. Stream your music
If you have a really large music library, you can still carry it with you without filling up your gadget.
Apple's iTunes Match will hold your entire music library in the cloud
and stream to you the songs you want. Sure it costs $25 a year, but
that's better than spending hundreds on a new gadget with more storage.
Google Play Music
is another one solution. This service can hold your entire iTunes
library and stream your music to you whenever you want. The only space
it takes up is for the Google Play Music app, not each individual song
or album. There's also an option to get a subscription to add new music
and movies, much like iTunes.
Five feature-length HD movies loaded on an iPad will take up 15GB or
more of space. A dozen one-minute videos you shot at birthday parties
and other celebrations can add another 1GB. There's all of your storage
gone, or at least a large chunk of it depending on your gadget's storage
size.
If you purchased movies via iTunes, it's safe to assume that those
are backed up on your computer. If they are, then you can delete movies
and TV episodes from your mobile gadgets with ease.
To remove an entire series, go back into the Usage menu
(Settings>>General>>Usage) and tap Videos. Then, select the
series you want to delete by sliding to the left. Otherwise, you will
need to tap Edit and hit the minus symbols to delete them one by one.
5. iCloud
Let's move on to iCloud. Apple's cloud service backs up your
information daily so that if you lose your gadget or upgrade to a new
iPhone or iPad, you can make the new gadget nearly identical to the old
one.
By default, iCloud backs up data for every app you have, but with
only 5GB of space for free, you're probably going to fill it up quickly.
You can save iCloud space by backing up data only for your most
critical apps.
For instance, it's probably more important to back up an
always-changing, critical productivity app, such as Keynote, than to
back up the data for a utility app, such as Calculator.
Go to Settings>>General>>Usage again and scroll down to
iCloud. You'll see how much online storage you have available.
Under iCloud, tap Manage Storage, then the gadget you want to manage.
Now you can choose the data you want to back up. When you deselect an
item, it will be removed from iCloud.
The big hog in iCloud is usually the Camera Roll. Whenever you take a
picture or video, it gets filed in Camera Roll. If you have hundreds of
different files scattered across Camera Rolls on multiple gadgets,
iCloud makes a complete copy of each one.
This is why you get a warning about deleting a photo from iCloud when
you try to delete photos on your gadget. If you don't need the picture
anymore, go ahead and delete it from iCloud and follow the instructions I
detailed above for backing up your photos without taking up all this
storage space.
Other tips
Do you save all of your text messages? If you never clear those out, now might be the time. This goes for voicemails, too.
Delete Safari history and cache by going to Settings>>Safari and click Clear History and Clear Cookies and Data.
Clear out your Reading List in Safari. Open the Safari app (assuming
you browse with Safari), and click the Bookmark icon option at the
bottom. It looks like an open book. From there, click on the glasses
icon and swipe left on any pages you want to delete.
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