Do you have a 16GB iPhone or iPad and you are not willing to pay more for a higher capacity model or for extra storage in iCloud? Learn how to "resist" making the most of those 16GB of storage with these tips.
Optimize the 16GB of your iPhone
This morning we informed you that They sue Apple for not reporting the real free capacity of the iPhone and, although this is a widespread and well-known reality, the truth is that if we are not careful, those 16GB may have been melted into "zero comma". Therefore, if you are not willing to go through the hoop of hiring extra storage in iCloud, follow these tips and you'll see how the 16GB of your iPhone can go a long way.
IOS updates
If you want to take advantage of the reduced capacity of your 16GB iPhone or iPad you must be aware of two essential aspects:
- Forget about updates via OTA (from the device itself)
- Restore your device
Indeed, OTA updates take up much more space on your device, so it is best that when there is a new update available, connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer and update through iTunes because in this way the operating system is downloaded to the computer and you avoid having to free up space on your device.
In addition, with use, a lot of garbage accumulates on our device, therefore, from time to time, instead of updating restore from scratch and then put your backup. You'll see how the available free space increases.
The «cloud», a great option
The cloud storage services will allow us to enjoy more free space on our iPhone or iPad at the same time that it will give us access to all our documents, photographs, etc. from any device, time and place.
We can use esp 5GB free of iCloud for backups of our device while with services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, DropBox, Mega, Box, Evernote, Flickr and a very long etcetera we can free up space on our device by saving documents, photographs, videos that we previously had stored locally on our iPhone or iPad.
Another tip: if you use each of these services for a type of file, you will further optimize the free space that each one of them offers you while you will always know where you have everything. For example, MEGA offers 50GB of free storage, use it for larger files like videos. Flickr is perfect for photos, Evernote for storing web pages and articles, and DropBox or Google Drive for documents.
A thousand applications?
Optimize the applications you install on your device in two ways. First, remove what you don't use. We often download apps to try, or because they are free, but then they remain unopened for months and months. Uninstall them as they occupy a space that you could dedicate to things that interest you the most and, in any case, you can always reinstall them.
Line Tools, a multipurpose app with many tools
In addition, avoid having an application that only serves one thing and look for alternatives: applications that serve several things, multipurpose for example Line Tools or any other that you discover through the App Store.
Switch to streaming music, but for free
Do you really need to carry the 3000 songs that you already have compiled in iTunes on your iPhone? Store in the Music app only your essential songs, those without which you "can't live" and for everything else, go to the competition, Google Play. As I already showed you in the articleo Take advantage of the reduced capacity of your iPad with these applications, Google Play Music, together with the installation of Music Manager on your Mac or PC, it allows you to automatically “upload” all the songs in your iTunes library to Google Play up to a maximum number of 20.000 songs. Every time you add a new song in iTunes, it is uploaded to Google Play and you have it available in your iPhone or iPad application. In this way you can synchronize only that essential music on your iPad for when you do not have an internet connection and thus optimize the use you give to the total storage of your iDevice.
And you, what more ideas can you think of to survive 16GB?
If you liked this information, do not forget that in Applelised We help you as much as possible to make the most of your apple devices, so you will find many more tips and tricks in our section Tutorials.
Thank you! Very interesting!!!