Sure has ever happened to you that you've run out of space on your iPhone or iPad and do not know exactly why. The answer is that there are many applications to store temporary files and caches useless then not deleted, so these are being stored and occupying unnecessary space on your device. Today, we teach you to recover back all that space.
Most users who have an iPhone or iPad have lower capacity model, as a general rule most of the sales are going to the 16GB models, which are usually more than enough, and they are cheaper models .
However, sometimes we may be a warning that we are running out of space on our system and we can not install games or heavy applications. Moreover, if you connect your iPhone or iPad to iTunes you'll notice a bar at the bottom that tells you how many GB are taking different types of content.
Yellow with Other usually occupies several GB, as we will see in this article most of them are useless because they are only caches applications, messages, games or unnecessary temporary data.
Getting rid of that space occupied
However we have no accurate way to find out where does all this useless space, so we'll have to go digging through the different parts of the system to phase the data manually.
One method to guide us will go to Settings> General> Usage. On this screen, see the section on the MB Storage that is taking each application, as will be many MB do not expect to see there.
Ratings are sorted in descending order, and see how surely Music and Photos are the most GB carried in his pocket. However, in my case I have a Chrome consuming more than 300 MB of cache or swallowing Facebook almost 200MB of my device.
Sure, they think that everything is as simple as clicking on any option to clear cache or application content, but no, that is allowed in some applications that give us the option to do this from within the application. iOS only allows us to delete the application and bring with it all the data. Then we will have to reinstall having lost all configurations, but having recovered the occupied space.
If we enter into the application from this menu see the application and the amount of space occupied by each element of this. For example, Google+ occupies 40.2 MB, but we and Data 148 MB occupied; ie 4 times the application at hand. Ideally no more to remove and Data, but iOS does not let us.
Retrieving additional space
Messaging applications: Other applications that are going to take a lot of space ahead if not we are in line messaging like WhatsApp, iMessage or Line. In this case it will be as simple as conversation or delete delete files that do not interest us from the list received from the user, as we have the habit of carrying maintenance, may be many photos stored useless.
Reel: Although we think not, on the reel will be dozens of photos that do not serve us at all, for any photo you take with the camera from any application end there. It might take many photos to upload to Twitter or whatever do not want to save. My advice is that whenever we can, we import the videos to your computer from the Image Capture application in OS X; and save a lot of space, since it records videos at 1080p iPhone occupy enough.
Cache browsers: As mentioned earlier, the cache of the browsers like Chrome or Safari may occupy much space. To do this we will have to enter the settings for each application and find the option to empty the cache. In Chrome it is in Settings> Privacy> Clear browsing data. In Safari we must go iOS preferences in Safari> Clear Cookies and Data.
Safari generally tends to empty the cache automatically to avoid fattening lot, but not Chrome. Also if you delete cookies must know that all pages that were activated we will lose and we will have to login again everywhere.
PhoneClean
PhoneClean is an application devoted to automate this process and prevent our cleaning job becomes a nightmare. It is an application for iOS, where we have to connect your device to your computer via USB and analyze all the garbage on our system in the form of temporary files, caches, cookies and failed synchronizations.
It is best to have no need jailbreak for this task and act completely transparent to the user, only limiting our scope to select those components that we want to eliminate.
As we see, is not an easy task to free up unnecessary space in iOS, but we will carry it out every time we meet just capacity. iOS 7 does not improve things much, so we have to keep doing maintenance on our own. Android, meanwhile, it does provide us with much more homework because lets remove caches and temporary application data without getting rid of the application.