Tuesday, December 2, 2014

How to Free Up Storage Space on iPhone for iOS 8 Update

The update cannot be installed unless you have enough storage space at least 5.8GB on your iPhone. According to the record, there are 200000 Apple user choose to upgrade their idevice to iOS 8. A Large amounts of problems caused during the process of upgrading, the most common one is the problem of data loss and failed upgrade. Lots of iPhone user lost their data due to shortage of iPhone storage space. Before upgrading to iOS 8, many things you should consider. Freeing up storage space on iPhone is the first step.

Before freeing up storage space, you should identify storage usage at first. Find out by clicking Setting>General> Usage. In the Usage Settings menu, you can see how much space your apps use and delete the ones you don't need. You can always re-download your purchased apps or other content later. Follow the steps below to save and free up storage space on iPhone for iOS 8 upgrade.

1.Update using iTunes

It takes up at least 4.6GB (or more) for OTA updating. Using iTunes for updating is a simple and common way, which takes up only around 2GB. In some degree, using iTunes is the good way to save storage space.

To download the latest version of iOS using iTunes, follow these steps:
Install the latest version of iTunes on your computer.
Plug your device into your computer.
In iTunes, select your device.
In the Summary pane, click Check for Update.
Click Download and Update.

2.Delete useless Apps and completed games.

For old iPhone user, needless to say, there are a great slews of useless Apps and games on your iPhone if you didn’t clean up your iPhone regularly. Simply tap and hold the icon of the useless Apps/games for a few second until it juggles. Then click “X” in the corner. Or, you can delete useless Apps by: Go to “Manage Storage”>”App(choose App you want to delete)”> view details>tap “Delete App” to uninstall it.

3.Offload music, photos, and videos.

If app removal isn't making a dent, it's time to look at the other space hogs: music, photos, and videos -- especially iTunes videos, the stuff you've rented or purchased and downloaded for offline viewing. These kind of stuffs take too much space, just hit “Videos”and swipe left to bring up the delete button.

Also, you can keep these videos, photos, and music files before deleting them. As anything you’ve not backed up like photos, messages will be lost forever if you don’t have any backups. You can use a free iTunes Backup Extractor to transfer the big file (photos, videos, messages) that you don’t want to delete from iTunes backup to computer. Even you fail to complete the upgrading, at least the valuable stuffs you want to keep is saved on computer.