How to Offload Apps on iPhone or iPad to Free Up Storage Space

How to Offload Apps on iPhone or iPad to Free Up Storage Space

The ability to offload apps from an iPhone or iPad offers an alternative method to save storage space on an iOS device, as offloading apps removes the app from the device while still preserving that apps related data. Preserving the apps data is what makes offloading apps unique and different from , because typically if you delete an app from an iOS device that apps data and documents are deleted with it. Offloading apps instead removes just the application, but by saving the app data it allows the app to be reinstalled again in the future and immediately be where it was left off, without any loss of related that were in the app. Offloading apps from an iPhone or iPad is particularly helpful when you encounter the annoying storage issues and Storage Full error messages that routinely appear on many iOS devices, since you can simply offload an app without having to worry if youre going to lose data with that process. You can offload apps from an iPhone or iPad directly, even if you have already . Heres how to do this: The key thing to remember is that by offloading an app, the app is removed from the device but all data and documents that pertain to that app are maintained on the iPhone or iPad. This allows you to re-download the app again in the future to easily resume whatever it was you were using the app for, with all of your in that app intact. Effectively this helps to free up storage space on iOS without having to worry about recovering your data or documents, since those are maintained on the device and will continue to be backed up. * You may notice under the iOS Storage Recommendations section a recommendation to , a setting that handles this process automatically in the background when storage is running low. For many users, this is a good idea to enable if they find themselves routinely low on storage and removing apps as a result. Its worth mentioning that only modern iOS versions have this feature, so if youre not running a later release you wont find the Offload Apps capability on an iPhone or iPad. If you want the feature, youd need to update iOS to anything beyond 11.0 release. You can re-download and re-install offloaded apps at any time in one of two ways; either by finding the app in the App Store and downloading it again, or by locating it in the Settings Storage section and choosing to Reinstall App when you select it. Either method works the same and downloads the app again back to the device, while maintaining the documents and data which were originally related to it. Of course offloading apps and restoring them while preserving app data is sometimes not what users want to do, and its not too usual for iOS users to want to outright delete an app so that they can to free up storage from a bloated app cache. Running out of storage and various storage issues are the bane of many iPhone and iPad users, as there are few things more annoying on an iOS device than trying to take a picture but finding the , or being , or an inability to download an app since there is no free room on the device, or the other various Storage Full error messages. Fortunately with Offload Apps and the ability to , you should be able to have better control over your device storage. And if youre always low on storage, perhaps next time around opt for a larger storage sized model of iPhone or iPad.