[mac4theblind] Re: Free up space on your iOS device | Macworld

From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:27:10 -0400

Free up space on your iOS device
With apps getting larger, space on your iPhone or iPad is becoming a precious
resource
by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com Mar 28, 2012 2:55 pm
The iPad and its new Retina display have arrived. And so have the larger apps.

Meet your Match
If you store a lot of music on your iOS device, and you believe that more
storage space is worth at least $25 per year, consider signing up for iTunes
Match. With that service, Apple stores your music in iCloud; your entire music
library appears on your iOS device, without actually taking up storage space
there.
So if you currently store several gigabytes of music on your iPhone, signing up
for iTunes Match can free up all that space—sort of. iTunes Match on iOS
doesn’t actually stream your music; it downloads songs on demand to your
device. Once you’ve enabled iTunes Match by signing up in iTunes on your Mac,
you can instruct your iPhone or iPad to wipe out its collected store of cached,
downloaded songs as needed.

Clear out your iTunes Match cache to free up some precious space on your iOS
device.

Here’s how: Launch the Settings app, tap on General, and choose Usage. Wait a
moment as your iOS device calculates things. Once the list appears, find the
Music line item. Now, you can swipe across Music to bring up the Delete button;
tap that, and your cached music gets removed. Remember, this won’t impact your
ability to enjoy your music on your iOS device. Thanks to iTunes Match, you can
keep playing back your music from iCloud whenever you’d like—this trick just
clears out songs iTunes Match downloaded to your device, but you can always get
them back again.
Drop a few apps

If you see very large apps that you don't use often (or at all), you can delete
them from right on this screen.

We said at the outset that you shouldn’t start deleting apps at random when you
need to free up space. Instead, you want to delete those apps you use the
least, but take up the most space. And if you’re still at the General -> Usage
section of the Settings app, your iOS device will make identifying those apps
as simple as possible. In fact, the Usage screen lists all of your apps from
largest to smallest. If you see, say, GarageBand or iMovie listed at the
top—each of which gobbles up more than a gigabyte of storage space—and you
never use those apps, now might be the time to bid them a fond farewell.

Remember that you can always reinstall those apps, should a need to use them
arise. You can access your old, no-longer-installed apps from the App Store app
on your iOS device, or using the iTunes application on your Mac (or PC, if
that’s how you roll). On an iPad, tap the Purchased tab; on the iPhone, tap the
Updates tab and then select Purchased. Then you can tap the Not On This Device
tab to see a list of all the apps you don’t have installed, sorted by either
name or installation date.
If you use iTunes instead, you get more sorting options. Select the Apps menu
item in the iTunes source list, and then search through the apps panel—which
sorts all your downloads by name, kind, category, date of original download,
and size—to find any apps you want to reinstall. Just click on the box next to
the app’s name and (if you don’t use iTunes in the Cloud), manually sync your
iOS device: The newly selected apps will reappear on your iPhone or iPad as
good as new. (Literally, as good as new—when you delete apps from your device,
you wipe out any information stored on those apps. So your high score on Angry
Birds will be sacrificed in the name of storage space.)

You can delete apps from right within the Usage screen: Tap the name of the app
you’d like to remove, and then tap the big Delete App button.
If you look through the Usage list, you might find another line-item: Video.
You can’t remove the Video app, but you can remove individual videos you’ve
stored there. If you synced a couple movies eons ago and no longer need them,
now’s a fine time to remove those, too.
Photo finish
As the cameras improve on iOS devices, the photographs that those cameras snap
get larger and larger. A photo snapped with the iPhone 4S’s rear camera
typically weighs in at close to 2.5MB. Take a couple hundred photos with your
iPhone, and suddenly you’re talking about a half a gigabyte of pictures. Throw
in some HD video shot with the camera, and file sizes swell considerably; such
video can consume 2.5 or more megabytes per second.
The solution? Back those photos and videos up, and get them off your iOS
device. You can import your photos via Photo Stream with iPhoto, or connect
your iOS device directly to your Mac and import the files that way. iPhoto will
offer to delete the photos and videos it imports; another way to make quick
work of deleting photos from your device is with Image Capture.
If you’re a frequent iPhone photographer, regularly clearing out old (saved!)
photos from the phone is a must for freeing up storage space.
Camera Roll control

Speaking of photos, you can give yourself a head start on keeping your iOS
device’s Camera Roll from filling up prematurely by configuring things smartly
on an app-by-app basis. Third-party camera apps like Instagram and Camera+
offer options to control where your photos are saved—only within the app, or
within your Camera Roll, too. And some—again, like Instagram—let you specify
whether you want the original photo saved, and edited version saved, both, or
neither.
Explore your app’s in-app settings, and check the Settings app too. If you
don’t need to save the app’s photos to the Camera Roll, or you at least don’t
need multiple versions of each photo saved, configure things accordingly.
[Lex Friedman is a staff writer for Macworld.]

On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:18 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:

if only I could read it in the message.

On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

a nice tip for those of us running out of space.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166105/free_up_space_on_your_ios_device.html#lsrc.rss_howto

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