How to clear your app cache on an iPad. Open the Settings app. Tap 'General,' and then tap 'iPad Storage.' The iPad Storage page will show you how much space is used on your iPad. This happened to me with my older iPad Mini recently after upgrading to iOS 11. When opening Settings, you can see the iPad Storage Full warning and to free up space you need to tap Manage Storage. There are several ways to free up storage space on an iPad. Start out by checking the current status, which is located on the main iPad Settings page. Next select General from the list of options on the left, and then select the iPad Storage option midway down the screen.
How much space do you have left on your iPhone or iPad? Have you ever looked? Is your iPhone or iPad out of space? Do you know what apps are the guilty ones?
As time goes on, our devices grow in terms of size to accommodate all the memory-hungry files and data we continually pack into them. Pictures and videos are generally the biggest culprits. But sometimes your device will throw you a curveball. Maybe apps like Pinterest or Facebook are taking the space. Before you go deleting pins or friends, you’ll be surprised to know the reason.
In two occasions in less than a week, two members of my family called to say their iPads were almost out of space. They were able to pinpoint Pinterest as one of the guilty apps. That seemed strange to me since Pinterest stores all of your preferences, images, pins, etc. on their website/server so you would never store any of that on your iPhone. I found the reason why.
Find out why it’s so full
Before I explain why Pinterest was taking up so much space, determine for yourself why you’re out of space and what you can do to free up additional. Here’s how on iOS:
- Click on SETTINGS. Then click on GENERAL.
- Tap on USAGE and wait. This takes some time on some devices. Patiencccce. It’s loading.
- You’ll see Storage Available and Storage Used
- Take action (below)
Almost instantly you’ll see images, music and videos are near the top. Videos take up way more space than images by default. So if you can delete any videos, that’s a great start. If they’re backed up to the iCloud and you don’t watch them, just dump them. You’ll have instant space. Images will take longer to remove. But same deal.
The hidden culprit
If you’re like my family members and an app like Pinterest is at the top, it’s because of the cache. A cache is a collection of files that you don’t see or access. The cache remember your habits, links to pages, searches, etc. and they store them so the next time you use the app, things happen faster. It’ll remember you visited a page so it may load it quicker because it has a blueprint already store of that page.
This makes it faster because you’re not asking Pinterest’s server to send you the images, text, etc. for the first time. That takes longer. You may not notice a difference, but when you have a lot going on on that little iPad, speed can start to tank with so many processes running.
So how much cache data has built up? One family member had 1 GIGABYTE! Think about it, if you have a 16GB iPad, you’ll free up 1/16th of that in seconds. That’s a big deal. For an iPad out of space, this is a savior.
How do I delete the cache?
The bottom line is, you don’t necessarily need the cache data. It will build again. So if you’re out of space and you need space NOW, there’s a simple trick to deleting the cache data…
Delete the app.
Yes, that’s right. Just press on the Pinterest or the offending app until it starts to shake, then click on the X. It will ask if you want to delete it. Click yes. Then go to the app store and download it again. Go back through the steps above and voila! You just freed up a crapload of space.
Warning – this isn’t always the case for all apps. Some apps DO save data to your device (some games, utility apps like word processors, etc.) but they generally won’t be one of those at the top of the list because they’re basic, small files. A good way to think about it is that if you have to log into the app and it’s a social site like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, etc. Then chances are it’s the cache that’s the culprit.
Example: If you look at this image of my iPad, you’ll see that videos, music and images are the top apps taking the most space. But look at Google+. 1 GB of space is taken up by that app. Since I log into Google+, most likely this is cache data. So I will delete the app and add it again to free up a gig.
But what about Spotify!? That’s a site I log into to stream music. Yes. But what about when you are offline and want to listen to music? Spotify has an option to take music ‘offline’ so you don’t need a signal to listen. Well, what it’s doing is DOWNLOADING the tune to my iPad so it’s accessible all the time.
But if I cancel Spotify’s subscription, the program is smart and just removes the music automatically from my iPad. If I were to delete the app and re-add it, I would lose the songs I took ‘offline’. But I could easily just have them added again.
When in doubt, go to your iCloud in settings and go to backups and click Back Up Now to save before you try it. You can always load a backup.
But clearing the cache on memory-hungry apps will fix the iPad out of space problem and get you back to surfing in now time. Good luck!
How to clean up your iPad for more storage The iPad is one of the most popular devices which comes with a wide variety of functions and features. This exotic functions and features of iPad allow users to do almost everything that they actually want. But the problem arises when you receive some notifications that you never wanted like that storage is full and you have not sufficient space to install more files. You quickly checked in settings, general and usage and you see there is only 0 MB free and now you are searching for a solution what to do. Don’t worry, this is one of the most irritating conditions that many of iPad users face. Just follow the below steps to get quickly rid of this problem.
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How to clean up your iPad for more storage
Use your iOS device or iTunes to check what exactly is using up your storage space
If you have exceeded your average storage plan, the general and tech news, videos, and photos won’t be getting saved to your iPad device. In addition, to this, you are also not able to receive messages with the help of your cloud email address. To check what is using your iPad device storage just follow these below simple steps to get a quick answer.
Use your iOS device to check storage
- Tap on the setting, then general and the iCoud usage and click on the manage storage option.
- Then you will able to see a list of the apps and as well as the total space that each of one is using. Tap on the app to get more detailed usage.
- It depends on the app that you are able to delete its some content or not. If your iPad device is full and you’re getting full storage alert, then you must remove some less used content on your iPad.
Use iTunes to check the total storage
- First, open the iTunes on your PC or laptop. Then, connect it to your device.
- In the iTunes just select your iPad device. You will easily able to see a bar where it shows that how much total storage your iOS content actually uses. It is simply divided by the content type.
- Just hover your mouse on a content type, like Apps or other to find a relevant information about storage.
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