Managing storage on my IPad
How do I manage my storage on my IPad 2? iTunes is telling me it's under settings but I can only view what I have, and according to that I have enough storage to do what I am trying to do ( download a movie ) any answers?
This applies to iOS v 5.1 as of March 19, 2012:
Open Settings
Click General > Usage (3rd button in the 1st block of buttongs that includes About & Software Update). Give the iPad a moment to load the list of Music, Video and Apps that are stored on your iPad.
The first line under the header Storage will tell you how much is available and how much is used.
You will see a list of 10 of the largest Storage users. While you can't manage the Music directly (that is done from iTunes by checking and unchecking selections to sync) you can manage individual audiobooks under Music as well as TV Shows, Movies and Music Videos by clicking on Video.
Following Music and Video you will usually see a list of the installed Apps and how much room they are taking in your Storage. You can delete the Apps and their associated documents by clicking o hte name of the app.
Your iCloud storage is in the block following. Don't confuse this with the storage of your iPad. iCloud stores the documents and data associated with your applications, but your music and apps that you acquire through iTunes Store are stored on your iPad and are synced with your Mac storage.
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How do I manage storage on the iPad?
Hi, I have a 30 gb iPad and have 4gb left. The largest thing on my iPad is 2.6 gb of iBooks data. But the rest adds up to 2.673 gb of data. So that leaves me a total storage area of 9.2 gb (5.2 used + 4 free). How do I figure out what is eating up the rest of my storage? I'm getting my storage numbers from "General > Storage > Manage Storage".
I'm thinking either the iOS takes up must take up 10 gb of data in and of its self. Then the rest of the applications (their physical installed size) are using the rest of that? Or that services being synced from iCloud (mail, contacts and calendars) are eating up memory.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I want to just wipe my iPad and see if that frees up data but don't want to lose my Minecraft data (it isn't backed up to anywhere I believe).
FYI, under storage it says I have used 22.4 gb and 4gb is available.
Thank you for anyone that has figured out the magic bullet on managing storage on the iPad and can share!Found the answer. I backed up my iPad, wiped all the data, and then restored from back-up. Now I have 22.27 gb available to use. It was listed under "other" on my mac. :-/
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I am trying to get a certain app back on my main screen from the manage storage section of my ipad. Does anyone know how to do that?
Solve my own problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am getting a dialog bx saying "Not enough storage: this Ipad cannot be backed up....manage storage in settings" When I click settings nothing happens. The Ipad seems to be locked. How can I upgrade storage to unfreeze my I pad?
Hi karlos16,
For the error message you are seeing, I found this article:
iCloud: Troubleshooting creating backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3992
"This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available."
This message is displayed when there is not enough storage space available in your iCloud Storage to complete your backup. You can either reduce the amount of data you are backing up under Backup Options, or you can buy more storage.
For the issue with the iPhone appearing to be unresponsive, I recommend this article for troubleshooting:
iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
Cheers!
- Ari -
The following message appears when I try to turn on the iPad..."Not enough storage..this iPad cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storage in settings." When I tap Close or Settings nothing happens
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.
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I'm trying to update my iPad but it's telling me not enough space manage storage I think I'm doing it wrong because it's not changing
Open the Settings app & select General. How much Available space do you have?
You may have to delete some files (videos) to obtain more space.
Cheers, Tom -
Hello, I have a question . I bought a ipad 2 months ago.Yesterday, I couldn't open or shut down . On the Ipad show " Not enough Storage . This ipad can not be back up because there is not enough icloud storage available . You can manage your storage in settings.
thank you and have a good dayTry this and see if the iPad will restart.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. -
Why does my iPad not show up in manage storage?
Why does my iPad not show up in manage storage?
Don't understand your question - "manage storage"? What are you trying to do? Are you trying to connect to your computer? Are you trying to free up some storage space?
How much space is used by your Other? You may be able to reduce.
How Do I Get Rid Of The “Other” Data Stored On My iPad Or iPhone?
http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
How to Remove “Other” Data from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-remove-other-data-from-iphone/
With an iOS device, the “Other” space in iTunes is used to store things like documents, settings, caches, and a few other important items. If you sync lots of documents to apps like GoodReader, DropCopy, or anything else that reads external files, your storage use can skyrocket. With iOS 5/6/7, you can see exactly which applications are taking up the most space. Just head to Settings > General > Usage, and tap the button labeled Show All Apps. The storage section will show you the app and how much storage space it is taking up. Tap on the app name to get a description of the additional storage space being used by the app’s documents and data. You can remove the storage-hogging application and all of its data directly from this screen, or manually remove the data by opening the app. Some applications, especially those designed by Apple, will allow you to remove stored data by swiping from left to right on the item to reveal a Delete button.
What is “Other” and What Can I Do About It?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142
iPhone or iPad Ran Out of Storage Space? Here’s How to Make Space Available Quickly
http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/02/iphone-ipad-ran-out-of-available-storage-space-ho w-to-fix-quick/
6 Tips to Free Up Tons of Storage Space on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/6-tips-free-up-storage-space-ipad-iphone-ipod-tou ch/
Also,
How to Clear Message/iMessage Cache on iPhone & iPad And Reclaim Lots of Free Space
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-clear-message-imessage-cache-on-iphone-ipad/
Cheers, Tom -
Recently I received my replaced ipad3. Now my Manage Storage of current ipad3 cloud is showing two Backups. "iPadA" consumed 4.2 GB and "iPadB" consumed 20MB. iPadA has photos that taken by my previous iPad. How can I restore photos from iPadA cloud backup? iPadA consumed almost all free icloud space but at the moment I cannot see any photo saved at iPadA Cloud backup and i dont want to loss those photos.
For your information iPadA was name of my old iPad3 and iPadB is name of my current iPad3. I am using the same Apple ID as before.
Can anybody help me in restoring my backup from iPadA?In general theory, one now has the Edit button for their posts, until someone/anyone Replies to it. I've had Edit available for weeks, as opposed to the old forum's ~ 30 mins.
That, however, is in theory. I've posted, and immediately seen something that needed editing, only to find NO Replies, yet the Edit button is no longer available, only seconds later. Still, in that same thread, I'd have the Edit button from older posts, to which there had also been no Replies even after several days/weeks. Found one that had to be over a month old, and Edit was still there.
Do not know the why/how of this behavior. At first, I thought that maybe there WAS a Reply, that "ate" my Edit button, but had not Refreshed on my screen. Refresh still showed no Replies, just no Edit either. In those cases, I just Reply and mention the [Edit].
Also, it seems that the buttons get very scrambled at times, and Refresh does not always clear that up. I end up clicking where I "think" the right button should be and hope for the best. Seems that when the buttons do bunch up they can appear at random around the page, often three atop one another, and maybe one way the heck out in left-field.
While I'm on a role, it would be nice to be able to switch between Flattened and Threaded Views on the fly. Each has a use, and having to go to Options and then come back down to the thread is a very slow process. Jive is probably incapable of this, but I can dream.
Hunt -
On my new ipad ios 5.1.1 when i try to tap the manage storage it just loads for a sec but doesnt open and i cant manage my iphone 4 on 5.1.1
Hi,
/Users/sarahschadek/Desktop/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Move the Safari app from the Desktop to the Applications folder.
Restart your Mac.
That's why you see this:
When I try to do the updates my computer says it has ready it goes through like it is downloading them then at the end it says some of the files could not be saved to "/" files.
After your restart your Mac, click the Apple menu (top left in your screen) then click: Software Update ...
Carolyn -
My Ipad says that i am running out of storage but my icloud says that ive only used 1.4gb of the 5 allotted and when i go to usage manage storage all my apps are turned t the on postpition for backup. So i dont nderstand why my ipads storage is being used
iCloud doesn't give you more storage on your device, it only gives you more storage in iCloud to sync data, store your backups, etc. If you're running out of space on your iPad you'll have to delete some data off your iPad to free it up, such as syncing some of your music or other media off your iPad.
You can check how much free space is available on your iPad by going to Settings>General>Usage and looking at the Available number at the top. -
Why, with the same number of photos on my iPad and supposedly in iCloud, do I still have over 25 GB of space on my iPad but now need to buy even more storage space in iCloud? My iPad is 64 GB and I am now paying for 20 GB of iCloud storage with 864 MB left!
As I said:
Even if the Photos are less than 20GB, There's other stuff on the iPhone that is likely getting backed up to iCloud and using space. Basically your Phone has more space to spare than iCloud.
You can check in Settings->iCloud->Storage->Manage Storage to see what is using up the space in iCloud.
Anyway, turning off Photo stream will remove all photos from iCloud, it will not remove them from the iPad if they were taken with it, or copied to it.
Again I suggest you check in:Settings->iCloud->Storage->Manage Storage to see what else is using your iCloud space. -
Why can't I load any new video on my Ipad? It shows that I have used 27.2GB and have 609MB remaining even though everything listed including photos and camera only adds up to 7GB. I purchased additonal storage on Icloud and have 24GB left. I am getting "There is not enough available storage" message. "YOu can manage storage in setting".The only thing I can do in Settings is buy more ICloud space or delete.
How much space is used by your Other? You may be able to reduce.
How Do I Get Rid Of The “Other” Data Stored On My iPad Or iPhone?
http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
How to Remove “Other” Data from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-remove-other-data-from-iphone/
With an iOS device, the “Other” space in iTunes is used to store things like documents, settings, caches, and a few other important items. If you sync lots of documents to apps like GoodReader, DropCopy, or anything else that reads external files, your storage use can skyrocket. With iOS 5/6/7, you can see exactly which applications are taking up the most space. Just head to Settings > General > Usage, and tap the button labeled Show All Apps. The storage section will show you the app and how much storage space it is taking up. Tap on the app name to get a description of the additional storage space being used by the app’s documents and data. You can remove the storage-hogging application and all of its data directly from this screen, or manually remove the data by opening the app. Some applications, especially those designed by Apple, will allow you to remove stored data by swiping from left to right on the item to reveal a Delete button.
What is “Other” and What Can I Do About It?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-5142
iPhone or iPad Ran Out of Storage Space? Here’s How to Make Space Available Quickly
http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/02/iphone-ipad-ran-out-of-available-storage-space-ho w-to-fix-quick/
6 Tips to Free Up Tons of Storage Space on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/24/6-tips-free-up-storage-space-ipad-iphone-ipod-tou ch/
Also,
How to Clear Message/iMessage Cache on iPhone & iPad And Reclaim Lots of Free Space
http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-clear-message-imessage-cache-on-iphone-ipad/
Cheers, Tom -
Help managing storage on ipad2 with iphoto
I recently travelled overseas and uploaded all my photos from my digital camera to the ipad. Edited and made journals.
I have now saved all the journals as web pages via itunes, thanks to good advice by leonie and have exported all my edited photos to the camera roll and then synced them to my mac iphoto.
The mac now says there are no photos on the ipad. That is true, the camera roll on the ipad is empty. However in ios iphoto there is still 19.gb of data. It seems to have retained information about all 2000 photos i edited, created tags for etc. all the albums and events are now gone, but how do I clear out this information. By exporting all the edited photos I think they are now new images from iphotos point of view so shouldn't it be Ok to delete it all? I have the originals of all photos on an sd card if I need them.
I need all the space on the ipad for my next trip and the space it is using is now bigger than my ipad icloud storage limit of 15gb, so back ups to the icloud wont work either.
Any ideas? I couldn't find any previous discussion on the site about issues managing storage?
Thanks
VeronicaDeleting photos in iPhoto on the iPad is not so easy. If you want all photos gone, the quick-and-dirty way would be to uninstall iPhoto and download it again. That would delete all photos at once, but also your journals.
iPhot does not really store photos, other than for journals, and also it will keep copies of edited photos, if you delete the original from the camera roll.
See: What are albums?
iPhoto creates the following albums as needed:
Camera Roll: Photos you take with this device or save to the Camera Roll.
Recent: Photos most recently viewed in iPhoto.
Edited: Photos you edit using iPhoto. This includes photos you add captions to.
Flagged: Photos you flag.
Favorites: Photos you tag as favorites.
[Custom]: Photos you add a custom tag to. For every custom tag you create, iPhoto creates a new album in which all photos with that tag appear.
iTunes: Photos imported from iTunes using file sharing.
[App]: Photos sent directly from other apps to iPhoto.
Beamed: Photos beamed from another device.
AirDrop: Photos transferred from another device using AirDrop.
Photo Box: If a photo appears in an album (Edited, Favorites, Journals, or custom) and you delete the photo from your device, the photo remains in the album. If you remove the photo’s edits and tags, or delete the photo from the journal, iPhoto moves the photo to the Photo Box album (and removes it from the album it was in). If you edit or tag a photo in the Photo Box album, or add it to a journal, the photo is removed from the Photo Box album (and added to the appropriate album).
Look at the albums "Edited" and "Photo Box". These are iPhoto's safety copies. To be able to delete these Photos, you will have to undo the edits, tags, captions. Otherwise will iPhoto not delete the photos.
It might be easier after all, to back up your iPad to iCloud and simply to uninstall iPhoto and reinstall it todelete all photos at once, if you are really sure, that you saved all photos to your Mac. -
Icloud storage full - manage storage
Hi,
So my ipad is saying that my icloud storage is almost full and it is preventing me from doing a lot of things.
I go to settings > icloud > storage and backup > manage storage
It says my ipad is using 63.2MB and Mail is using 113.8MB - this obviously does not add up to 5GB, yet my storage is saying I have used 4.8GB of 5GB on icloud.
I have tried deleting the back ups and even turning off back up to icloud. Then I turned the icloud back up on again and did a fresh back up and the result was still 4.8GB of usage wit the above statistics for ipad and Mail.
I am so confused. I am obviously not using 5GB of storage and don't want to purchase anymore, does anyone have any ideas of what is wrong!?
Thanks,
SiCloud: Backup and restore overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859
Check iCloud storage & backup space on iPad
http://www.urltips.net/check-icloud-storage-backup-space-on-ipad/336/
iCloud: Troubleshooting creating backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3992
Cheers, Tom
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