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If you have an iPad or iPhone, you often have problem with the storage space.
If you check the iPad/iPhone storage from 'setting' then 'general', you
Then you will find the storage used and the space left.
The top right shows you that my iPad has total 32GB storage, but 27GB has been used.
The light gray colour (on the right handside) shows 'other' which occupy almost 30-40% of my storage space.
If you scroll to the end of this screen, you can see 'Other'
the 'Other' occupies 12.45GB space (40% of my total storage).
This 'Other' are often the data when the iPad/iPhone run APPs. We would be unable to remove them.
The best way to solve this problem is to reset your iPad/iPhone to factory setting.
Today, I am going to show you how to do so.
First, we need to backup the iPad to a computer via iTune.
Then you can backup your iPad/iPhone's data onto the computer. Late on, you can reinstall the backuped data back to your iPad/iPhone.
Now, I will move to my computer to show you how to backup my iPad.
Start the iTune software and connect iPad with the computer via lighting cable.
On the iPad screen, it will ask if you could want to connect to the computer. Click 'Yes' and you may need to inter your apple password t allow the connection.
You can see that my iPad has connected to this PC now.
Click my iPad, it shows my iPad information and the option for 'Backups'.
At the bottom of this screen, you can see the spaces for different data in my iPad.
Click 'this computer', then click 'Backup Now'.
The backup will take some time depend on the size of your storage and how many data and APPs you got in the iPad.
Please see the animation which shows the backup is in progress.
On the top, it also show the progress of the backup.
Now, the backup has completed.
Now, I can go to my iPad to reset it to the factory setting.
On the iPad, please go to 'setting', 'general', 'reset'
On the top, there are two options 'reset all the settings' or 'delete all the data and setting'.
Please select the second option 'delete all the data and setting'.
As this will delete all the data in the iPad, it will ask many time for confirmation. Once the data are deleted, it is irreversible (in case the iPad has not been backuped).
Enter you apple password to allow the reset.
iPad is now restoring to the factory setting.
The reset has completed and you will see the welcome screen.
You can set the language.
Select the country you are based so that Apple could provide necessary support.
If you have both iPad and iPhone, you can place the two device together so that you could use 'quick start' to set up you iPad.
Connect the iPad with computer and click 'restore from this back up'.
After restore the data, we can check the iPad storage from teh setting.
From here, you can see that the 'Other' become very narrow (small size)(the light gray colour).
At the bottom of this screen, you can see the size of 'Other'. It is 2.98GB now (It was 12.45GB)
I have now release 10GB in my iPad.
Therefore, I have more space to run other APPs or store my data on the iPad/iPhone now.
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