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Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

sundrops — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:26:29 GMT

I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

jaxs mom — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:32:43 GMT

It will just give you cloud storage. If that's what you need then sign up. If you need more capacity on your device, you can't add it after the fact. Now you can move all of your photos to cloud storage though and just view them in the cloud. But to run apps they have to be installed on the ipad itself.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

Shawnie — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:49:47 GMT

What version ipad and what is the size? Do you have an apple computer? You could move your photos to your Mac using Airdrop, one at a time. Or back up to your laptop and then afterwards just delete what you need to from your ipad. Do you have videos on your ipad? They are space hogs. You can move them to your computer too. Same if you have a lot of music files, you could pare back there too.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

MKR14 — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:50:26 GMT

@sundrops You only get what comes on your iPad so it is important to get a GB large enough when purchased. Did you clean out the cache in the Safari under Settings? Also do the Advanced under the Clean History and cache?

Then double click the Home button and CLOSE any apps still open. I had a friend having a space problem on her iPad and it had hundreds of open Apps

that I closed. Try that. I have 1,000's of photos on mine. Hope this helps.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

sundrops — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:11:00 GMT

Thanks for the replies. I have already cleared cookies, history etc. I doubled clicked the home button and nothing happened. I'm sure I don't have any apps open. My iPhone and iPad are synced together and I just read that the free 5 GB that we get is for my IPad and iPhone together! They share that 5 GB of space because they are synced. I didn't know that. I also just read more info on purchasing storage and since the price has really dropped I think I'll go that route. I'll probably do it tomorrow. I'll discuss it with my husband and then sleep on it. This kind of stuff gets me so stressed. LOL. Thanks again. I will check back for more replies before I do anything.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

atsrm — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:14:59 GMT

There are now flash drive type storage devices made for iphones, ipads that have the lightening connection. It doesn't actually add storage to the device. I don't believe you can add storage to them. But you could move pics to this device then when you want to see them, connect it to your phone.

Also be sure you have the latest iOS installed. That freed up alot of space on my iPad

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

glb613 — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:58:43 GMT

@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.

Check your usage and I bet most is used up by "other". It's a category I have yet to figure out and you can't get rid of it unless you reset your iPad. Backup your iPad to your computer or cloud, do a facotry reset, then restore from your backup. I did this with my Macbook and gain 100 GB of space.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

Nuttmeg — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:04:41 GMT

@glb613 wrote:
@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.
Check your usage and I bet most is used up by "other". It's a category I have yet to figure out and you can't get rid of it unless you reset your iPad. Backup your iPad to your computer or cloud, do a facotry reset, then restore from your backup. I did this with my Macbook and gain 100 GB of space.

@sundropsI use an Apple App CCleaner for iPad or iPhone to clean the other area of my iPad4 and iPod Touch.

You should backup you tablet first.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

Moonchilde — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 04:56:37 GMT

@sundrops, I have purchased the extra space for the 99 cents/month and it's an easy solution in the shorter term. However, there are now at least three companies that I know of that make flash drives for iPads in different MB sizes, as long as your iPad has a lightning connector. Google (or go to Amazon and search for) "iPad flash drive."

If your iPad is so old that you have the 30-pin connector, you can use the Cloud storage for now and buy the flash drive when you buy a new iPad.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

glb613 — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:20:46 GMT

@Nuttmeg wrote:
@glb613 wrote:
@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.
Check your usage and I bet most is used up by "other". It's a category I have yet to figure out and you can't get rid of it unless you reset your iPad. Backup your iPad to your computer or cloud, do a facotry reset, then restore from your backup. I did this with my Macbook and gain 100 GB of space.
@sundropsI use an Apple App CCleaner for iPad or iPhone to clean the other area of my iPad4 and iPod Touch.
You should backup you tablet first.

How did you do that? I have CCleaner on my Macbook and iMac and it has never gotten rid of the "other" files.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

Nuttmeg — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:54:15 GMT

@glb613 wrote:
@Nuttmeg wrote:
@glb613 wrote:
@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.
Check your usage and I bet most is used up by "other". It's a category I have yet to figure out and you can't get rid of it unless you reset your iPad. Backup your iPad to your computer or cloud, do a facotry reset, then restore from your backup. I did this with my Macbook and gain 100 GB of space.
@sundropsI use an Apple App CCleaner for iPad or iPhone to clean the other area of my iPad4 and iPod Touch.
You should backup you tablet first.
How did you do that? I have CCleaner on my Macbook and iMac and it has never gotten rid of the "other" files.

I used this software to clean the cache on my ipad4,and ipad Touch.

I noticed it gave me back some storage space.

I do not know anything about cleaning a Macbook or and iMac.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

jackthebear — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:12:02 GMT

@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.

how old is your ipad? if you have the current OS it takes a lot of space to run so that may be an issue.

read this link and see if you can transfer the photos to your laptop, I have done it, not too hard. transfer pix

then I would reset my iPad as new ipad and start fresh

also read about setting up your ipad to transfer new photos via photostream to your computer, that way you can delete them from your iPad. This method doesn't involve the cloud

you can do this, just read it and follow step by step

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

Shawnie — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:59:24 GMT

@glb613 wrote:
@Nuttmeg wrote:
@glb613 wrote:
@sundrops wrote:
I need some help please. Has anyone purchased storage to get more space on their iPad? I'm almost out of space. I've deleted all the photos that I want to. I now have 255 photos stored. I've deleted all the apps I don't need. I still can't print anything from my IPad because it still says that I don't have enough space. I don't want to import photos from the IPad to my laptop and I don't know how to do it. I tried once already. I gave up. It's only 99 cents a month to get 50 GB. Is this a good way to get space. It seems an easy thing to do and then I won't need to worry about it. I cannot afford a new IPad with a more space at this tim. Thanks a lot everyone for any suggestions.
Check your usage and I bet most is used up by "other". It's a category I have yet to figure out and you can't get rid of it unless you reset your iPad. Backup your iPad to your computer or cloud, do a facotry reset, then restore from your backup. I did this with my Macbook and gain 100 GB of space.
@sundropsI use an Apple App CCleaner for iPad or iPhone to clean the other area of my iPad4 and iPod Touch.
You should backup you tablet first.
How did you do that? I have CCleaner on my Macbook and iMac and it has never gotten rid of the "other" files.

Where do you find the Other files category. Mines says Used and Available, and then it lists the apps and how much space they are using. Dont see an Other category.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

sundrops — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:41:11 GMT

Hi everyone, I just now pulled the trigger and bought the storage for 99 cents a month. Now I can keep my photos on the iPad, keep my Kindle books on it, etc. and not worry about it anymore. I just have to make sure to keep money in the App Store account! My brother, who I go to for advice on tech things, told me to go ahead and do it. He knows I have trouble understanding these kinds of things. Thanks to all who replied.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

glb613 — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:00:29 GMT

They must have gotten rid of it with the latest update. You use to be able to see a bar graft under settings then storage.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

dooBdoo — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:04:38 GMT

Another way to recover space on your iPad or iPhone is to be sure to sync/backup the device on a regular basis. A big part of the "Other" category is the Diagnostics and Usage data and it can build up quickly. (To see it, go into "Settings," then "Privacy," then "Diagnostics & Usage.") The only way to remove it is by syncing/backing up the device or by completely resetting/erasing the device and restoring from your most recent backup. (Regarding CCleaner for any Apple devices, I would discourage its use. It's not needed and has been known to remove important files causing major problems -- please, if you decide to use it on Apple mobile devices or computers, be sure you have a recent, reliable backup in case you encounter problems.) By the way, an added bonus of regularly syncing/backing up the iPad or iPhone is that it can remove problems causing random glitches that seem to have no known cause.

I hope that helps!

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

jaxs mom — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:17:57 GMT

@Shawnie wrote:
What version ipad and what is the size? Do you have an apple computer? You could move your photos to your Mac using Airdrop, one at a time. Or back up to your laptop and then afterwards just delete what you need to from your ipad. Do you have videos on your ipad? They are space hogs. You can move them to your computer too. Same if you have a lot of music files, you could pare back there too.

You don't need airdrop to move them. Just turn on wifi and they automatically sync to your mac Photos app.

Re: Purchasing storage from Apple for my Ipad

jaxs mom — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:24:17 GMT

@sundrops wrote:
Hi everyone, I just now pulled the trigger and bought the storage for 99 cents a month. Now I can keep my photos on the iPad, keep my Kindle books on it, etc. and not worry about it anymore. I just have to make sure to keep money in the App Store account! My brother, who I go to for advice on tech things, told me to go ahead and do it. He knows I have trouble understanding these kinds of things. Thanks to all who replied.

Again, all that did was give you more cloud storage and has zero to do with you being able to store kindle books or photos on your device. It does not physically increase storage space on your ipad. To read kindle books you have to download them to your device. Although you can see all the kindle books you own by looking in the cloud inside the app. Photos, you can view in the cloud though. So you really don't need to keep them on your device.