Note that after you have removed media files, either manually or via the Phone Cleaner for Media Files application, you have to open the Recently Deleted folder in the Photo Library and delete those files (or recover occasionally removed files). Select files you want to delete and tap on Remove Selected to confirm removal. Or tap on Gallery, so the biggest videos appear first, and scroll down to skim the biggest photos. Or, use an application called Phone Cleaner for Media Files, that can quickly scan the camera roll and find the largest photos and videos on your iPad and similar photos.Ĭomplete these simple steps to clear iPad storage with this iPad cleaner: You can look through the Photo Library and reminisce about each photo and video for a while, and finally delete them. In case, you want to remove large photos and videos that you don’t need anymore to clear your iPad storage, there are two ways of doing that. These operations take some time, but after transferring data, you can freely delete photos and videos to clear storage on an iPad.

An alternative to the iPad’s external storage, like a thumb drive or external hard drive, will keep your photos and videos in safe.

iCloud can’t help in that case, because items you want to delete on iPad are automatically removed from the iCloud as well, and vise versa.

Use cloud-based storage, like Dropbox and so on, to keep your media files.

Use iTunes to sync your photos and videos with your Mac manually. Use AirDrop to wirelessly send items from your iPad to your Mac.

Transfer photos and videos from your iPad to your Mac.

In case you decided to clean up your iPad’s storage from photos and videos but you don’t want to delete them forever, move them to another storage space. If you had synchronized all your Apple devices, you can find duplicates of items as well. One can assume that they take more than a half of an iPad’s storage space. Most users would agree that the most capacious items on your iPad are photos and videos. Open Settings → General → Storage and iCloud → Manage Storage → Music → Edit → Tap minus symbol on the red circle to remove unneeded songs. You can also remove some songs that you downloaded earlier to free up space on an iPad. For this, go to Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data → Remove All Website Data → Remove. You have to do one more step to remove Safari cache fully. Here is how to clear the Safari cache on an iPad: go to Settings → Safari → Clear History and Website Data → Clear. Some applications like Safari allow you to clear cache in the app’s settings without deleting the software. Apple controls apps you’ve purchased in the past to avoid double-paying, so you can download them anew at no extra charge. Go to Settings → General → Storage and iCloud Usage → Manage Storage → Tap on the app → Delete App. For this, you need to remove and reinstall the applications in order to clear the iPad’s storage. If an app’s documents and data take up more than 500BM, it’s worth clearing it. These temporary files are better to remove from time to time.

So, while you are using an app or surfing the net, your app’s and browser’s caches are being stored on your iPad. In other words, it is the application’s cache. You may have noticed that the app itself may not take up much space, but its’ data can take up hundreds of megabytes. Skim through the list of applications and look for the apps you don’t use anymore. So you can see how much space each app takes. Tap on Manage Storage and you’ll see a list of the applications on your iPad, arranged by size. There is data of Used and Available space and a Manage Storage option in the Storage section. So, pay your attention to the local storage.

Your iCloud storage is sharing between all your Apple devices. There are two sections: Storage and iCloud. For this, go to Settings → General → Storage and iCloud Usage. First, let’s check your iPad’s total usage.

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