The iPad is a device in which many applications are usually installed to consume multimedia content, applications for notes for university and games, many games. For this reason, it is important that you always take into account the storage that your iPad has left so that it works perfectly, well, in this post we give you several tips to save space on your device.
Use cloud storage
The first advice we want to convey to you is to use the cloud, use the different services that are available in the cloud to save all your documents and files. Our recommendation is that you use iCloud since the integration with the entire Apple ecosystem is perfect and, as you will read a few lines below, everything will be easier to store in the cloud through your iPad if the service you choose is iCloud .
Acquiring iCloud can be really cheap and for the price of one or two coffees per month you will have, first, the peace of mind of having all your files and documents in the cloud accessible at any time not only from your iPad, and second, everything you save in iCloud is space that you are freeing up on your device and that will come in handy for you.
Photos to iCloud
We continue with iCloud. Initially, Apple gives all users of an apple device 5 GB of free cloud storage. As we said, our recommendation is that the chosen cloud is iCloud since in this way, not only will you be able to save all your files and documents in the cloud, but you can also store the photographs there and they will always be available from the Photos app.
Do you really need to download the music?
If you use Apple Music, Spotify or any music service in its paid version, you will have the possibility of downloading your favorite playlists, albums or songs, but we asked you, is it really necessary? Focusing on the iPad, analyze if you really need to have the music downloaded on the device. Usually when using the iPad you will always be connected to the internet and thus you will have access to all the music you want. On the contrary, if during several moments of your day you use the iPad and you do not have access to the internet to listen to music, then yes, download your favorite music.
Check installed applications
Something that will come in handy to know which applications are consuming more storage space than others is to check just this. To do this, you just have to go to the Settings app, click on General and then on iPad Storage. In this way, you will be able to check which applications are consuming the most space in order to carry out the corrective actions that you deem appropriate.
On many occasions you may have downloaded certain contents to consume them during a trip or a period of time and later you have forgotten to delete them, in this way you will be able to realize this type of situation to free up storage space that is being occupied in a way. Useless.
Leave only the apps you use
We keep talking about applications. Something that we recommend that you do with some frequency is to review all the applications that you have installed to be aware of whether you really use each of the apps that you have on your iPad. Many users begin to install nonsense applications and the time comes when they find that, of all the applications they have installed, they only use 20 or 30% of them. This way you can identify those that you don’t use and delete them to leave more free space.
Games take up a lot of space
There is a type of application that consumes especially more storage than the rest, and they are games, therefore, in the same way that we invite you to review all the apps, we invite you to review with more intensity the games that you have installed in the iPad since they are applications that usually take up a lot of space on devices.
Review large files
In the same way that we invite you to review the installed apps, we advise you to do the same with the files that you have saved locally on the iPad. For this, iPadOS makes it very easy because the operating system will tell you which are the largest files that you have saved on the device. To do this, you just have to go to Settings, click General then iPad Storage and finally, Review large files.
Your iPad free of cache
The cache is one of the points that users least often take into account when optimizing the storage of devices, and on the iPad, a device in which many searches are made in browsers and where so many applications are used. so many different types, it tends to accumulate a lot of cache that it is convenient to clean if you have enough space.
Clear Safari cache
Clearing the Safari cache is really simple, for this you just have to go to Settings, Safari and click on Clear history and website data. This is an exercise that we recommend you carry out from time to time, since the space it will occupy will increase over time.
Clear the application cache
In the same way that you can delete the cache generated by Safari, you can do the same with all the applications that you use daily and that will be the ones that will have accumulated the most cache. To do this, go to the Settings, General and Storage app on the iPad, now you can see what space each of the applications you have installed on your iPad is occupying, to clear the cache of each of them you have to click in the selected app and click on Delete app. Once the application is removed, you just have to reinstall it.
This is a somewhat uncomfortable process, since you have to delete the app and reinstall it, which entails logging into it again, however, it is a very effective action to save and free up storage space on the iPad and that we We recommend doing it every so often.
Clean your iPad inside
With the use of the device, a series of junk files are generated that from time to time it is convenient to delete, and the only way to do it is by restoring the device. Also, if you usually install iPadOS updates directly from the iPad this will also generate files that are useless but are taking up space on your device. Therefore, we recommend that you perform a restoration of your iPad at least twice a year, it will help you improve its operation and fluidity while freeing up a lot of space on the device.
Restore with backup
When restoring the device you can do it in two different ways, through backup or from scratch. If you do not want to lose the apps you have installed and other relevant data, the option to restore with backup is the most suitable.
However, if you choose this option, the cleaning will not be as thorough as if you decide to leave your iPad as it came out of the box the day you bought it.
Leave your iPad as fresh out of the box
If what you are looking for is to leave the iPad as new inside, this is the type of restoration that we recommend doing at least twice a year. It is true that you will have to invest time in installing each and every one of the applications that you had previously, but even this can help you to make a smarter and more optimized selection of the applications to install on your device.