Jul 03, 2017 RELATED: How to Free Up Space on an iPhone or iPad. You can see how much space your iPhone or iPad’s Mail app is using in the same way you’d see how much space any other app is using. Open the Settings app on your device, and head to General Storage & iCloud Usage Manage Storage. Scroll down in the list and look for the Mail app. Sep 11, 2020 While applications may take up the majority of storage space on your PC, most iPad apps are relatively small in comparison. For example, the Netflix app only takes up 75 megabytes of space, which means you could store 400 copies of the app on that 32 GB iPad. 5 tricks to free up space on your iPhone With one of these drives, you can stock up on songs, podcasts, videos and whatnot, while still leaving space on your iDevice for apps and other stuff. This weird trick can free up gigabytes of space on your iPhone. This unusual (and risk-free) hack can free up hundreds of megabytes, or maybe even a couple gigabytes.
You can clear an iCloud account's storage in several ways to free up space and avoid having to pay for extra storage.
Apple gives you 5 GB of iCloud storage with the purchase of one of its devices, and that can fill up fast.
Most often, your iCloud storage goes towards backing up your photos, files, voice memos, apps, and text messages.
Unless you pay for an iCloud subscription, Apple gives you 5GB of storage with any device's purchase. That's not a lot of space, and you can quickly find that you don't have enough room for your photos, iCloud Drive files, and other data from your phone or tablet.
You can upgrade your iCloud subscription, but it's cheaper to clear out space in your iCloud account. You can delete files, photos, app backups, voice memos, and more from your iCloud Drive directly on your Apple device or through the iCloud website.
Typically, these things and all their associated data get backed up to iCloud by default. This can be both a blessing and a curse, particularly if the things you want to be backed up take up a lot of storage space. But you can save a substantial amount of space by disabling automatic backups, especially when it comes to your largest apps.
You can also delete text messages and any of the videos or images attached to them. While deleting individual texts won't save much space, you can remove entire conversations and the media associated with them, which can help significantly.
Here's how to clear your iCloud storage and free up more space.
How to clear iCloud storage
Delete photos from iCloud storage
By default, iCloud backs up all your photos and videos to the cloud. Over time, that adds up to a lot of pictures. You can save space by deleting any images you no longer want. It's possible to do this from your iPhone, iPad, or the iCloud website. As long as Google Photos is enabled, any pictures you delete in one location are automatically deleted everywhere. Here's how to delete photos from iCloud.
Reader Tony Moon has been having occasional problems with the Netflix app on his iPad. He writes:
I get inconsistent performance from the Netflix app on my iPad. Sometimes it works great, other times I try to launch a movie, the Netflix play screen appears for a second, and then the video window disappears. I have a strong Wi-Fi connection so I don’t think that’s it. Any ideas?
I’ve experienced the same thing and you’re right, it’s not a Wi-Fi issue—I’ve had Netflix play perfectly when I have just a couple of bars and quit when I have a full complement of bars.
I threw the question out to Twitter and the general consensus is that this is a memory issue. If you clear out the inactive cruft in the iPad’s memory, Netflix should perform as expected.
There are a couple of ways to do this. One is to simply restart the iPad. Doing so flushes the iPad’s memory and cleans things up nicely. How to clean my ram memory.
Optionally, you can use an app to free up memory. That app is XZone Software’s $2 XSysInfo. Launch it and you see a lot of information about your device arranged in categories including Usage, Processes, Estimated Work Time, Network, Device Identity, and Tech Specs. We’re interested in the Usage pane where you tap an arrow icon to clear out memory. If you tap the Settings icon you have the option to clean memory when you launch the app.
Iphone Free Up Memory
If Netflix is misbehaving and you don’t care to restart your iPad to flush its memory, it’s worth a shot.