IPod Touch won't allow apps to update, says not enough space

My iPod Touch (which I believe is a 4th generation) will not allow me to update my apps. With help, I was finally able to update iTunes and update my iPod to iOS 6, which I thought would fix the problem, but it hasn't. I deleted all of my photos and videos, assuming that would free up a huge amount of space, and it did, but my iPod currently has 887MB of space available (it's an 8G model). I have 5G of iCloud space available but I don't really know what iCloud is or how to use that storage space. So how do I convince my iPod Touch that it has more than adequate space to update the apps that need it? Any and all help would be sincerely appreciated, THANK YOU!

How many apps are you trying to update? How big are the updates? It must think that there isn't enough free space to store the updated versions of the apps.
iCloud space won't help you on this, it's only for additional off-device storage.

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IPod Touch won't allow apps to update, says not enough space

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