Trying to clear space on my iPad to allow upgrading to iOS version 7, which requires a minimum of 5 GB, but only 1.2 remains available. What do I do?
I want to upgrade to version ios 7, but that requires at least 5 gb of available space and my device says I've only got 1.2 gb available. My music, photos and apps add up to about 6.5 gb, so I presume the operating system and other pre installed software consumes the balance of the +/- 13gb of space the device says it has.
I bought 25 gb of iCloud storage and backed everything I have on the device onto iCloud, hoping I can later retrieve anything I need to delete to make space for the iOS v 7 upgrade. Am I correct about this? Is this how to clear space for the upgrade it hour losing any valuable pictures or music of favorite pps?
Upgrading the iPad thru iTunes and a computer will reduce the space requirements on the iPad, since the download of the iOS upgrade installer and its preprocessing will occur in the computer. Also, the backup stored on the computer will be a mirror copy of all the docs and settings of the iPad, which is not exactly true of an iCloud backup. Plus restoring from it will be much quicker since no network access will be needed to access the data.
As for where the storage space went, we had a similar issue a few days back with a colleague who wanted to upgrade his 16GB iPad3 to iOS 7.1 from iOS 5.1.1. After we removed all visible extra apps and documents, still could not get more than 3-4GB freed. But he recalled having stored two long videos that did not show up in the Videos app. Finally found them for some strange reason in the Photos app! With both backed up and gone, got almost 8GB back. Everybody happy now.
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