How to Regain Space on Your iDevice

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How to Regain Space on Your iDevice

This guide will show you a few tips to save space on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.

Miss Apple

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Some of these tips help speed up your device as well. So, learning two things with one guide here.

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Visual: If you are too attached to your apps, organize them so you can "convince" yourself that you saved some space.

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Delete any unnecessary apps. The NBA season isn't starting for another month, so I guess I could delete Game Time...*Go Miami Heat*

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Go into Photos and delete all nonsense and copy photos. Example: Have three similar favorite photos of your kids? Choose the one that you COULDN'T live without.

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Go into Settings and swipe down to iCloud.

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Go into Documents and Data.

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Here's an easy way to clear all your apps' data from iCloud: if you dare.

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Don't forget to clear that history! Cookies eat up some KBs (kilobytes), too.

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Go into Usage and just look at all the apps eating your space...Snapguide is guilty! Now you can truly decide which apps you want to delete. There's a big difference between Wikipanion and Video Star.

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You can easily delete all photos here...just back them up on the PC/Mac first.

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You can also delete shows, too. *clears throat* I watch the occasional Spongebob episode. (The others are not mine...)

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You can always get every single thing you deleted back through the iTunes app. Just go to Purchased and re-download it. This also works through the App Store: just go into Updates>Purchased.

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If your iPod is running out space AND is slow, consider a reset. No final photos; I'm too scared of actually deleting everything. Please backup before doing this. You might regret not doing so...

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Also, don't be afraid to delete apps that don't contain data (photo editing apps, news apps, weather apps, etc.). Don't forget the "I'll use it eventually" category. Delete those things quick!

You're Done

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