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Handy Hint 7 - Cleaning up your iPad / iPhone

(Published 2/10/13)
Spring Cleaning Time!  Running out of room on your iPad or iPhone?  Find out how you see what's using up all your memory and then clear some space! 

Step by Step instructions:


Touch Settings.
Tap the General option, then Usage, know as Storage & iCloud Usage from IOS 8 onwards
In the 'Storage' section of the Usage screen, you can see how much of your device's storage space has been used, and how much is still available.  

To then look at what is taking up all the Used space, touch Manage Storage.

Just wait a few seconds (sometimes a bit more!) and you will see a list of your apps, with the most 'space-hungry' apps listed at the top of the list - something like the image here (showing my most 'hungry' apps!).

The amount of storage space shown is the total storage space used up by the App and its data.  

If you touch on any of the apps in the list, you will be able to see how much space the app's data alone is taking up on your device.
For example, if I touch on an App that is installed on my iPhone - called Oldify 2 (!) which uses up 82.8 MB in total, I can see that the app's data is using up 37.1MB of space - a waste really.  

So I can choose Delete App to remove the app and its data from my phone (and confirm by touching the confirmation message that pops up).

This is one way of deleting any unwanted apps - hopefully you already know the other!

Just in case you don't, the other way to delete apps is to get your apps into the 'jiggle mode' (by touching and holding on an app until apps start to jiggle).

You can then touch the 'x' at the top left of any apps you want to remove, then confirm the app's removal by touching on the confirmation message.

Press the Home button again to get out of the 'jiggle mode'.

Any App you delete using either of these methods will still be available for free re-installation on your device at any time in future - you don't need to buy removed apps again.

Watch the iTandCoffee video from 2014 (when iOS 7 was launched) 

This video is one of the early iTandCoffee videos and may 'stutter' a little on some devices.  Just keep pressing the 'Play' button to force it to keep playing.