Watch: Free up iPhone and iPad storage with Offloading Unused Apps in iOS 11

Apple's iOS 11 is introducing a new feature that is capable of freeing up iPhone and iPad storage by deleting apps, but keeping your data & document files, and AppleInsider takes a look at the addition.

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4 Comments

dipdog3

said about 6 years ago

Delete apps to free up space so you can never use the apps again until you delete something.

GeorgeBMac

said about 6 years ago

dipdog3 said:

Delete apps to free up space so you can never use the apps again until you delete something.

That could be very useful if you are renting one or more movies. My grandson has a 32gb iPad Mini which is nearly always full. But, when he travels he likes to download rented movies to watch during his trip. This will help him clean-up the iPad so he has enough room for the movie -- but then reinstall the apps without losing anything after he watches the movie and it disapears from his iPad.

GeorgeBMac

said about 6 years ago

Very nice!

For all those who say Apple is driven by profit rather than product -- this is an example where this will actually lower their profit (by making it less necessary to buy new in order to get more storage) but is a very nice improvement to their product.