How to Make Enough Room for iOS 9 Update

Apple has reduced the package size of iOS 9 to 1.3GB, which is a good news for most iDevice users compared to the 4.58GB of iOS 8 package. However, it still can be a tough task to download iOS 9 for those 8GB or 16 GB iDevice users. This article will tell you how to safely make more room for iOS 9 update.

Part 1. Delete the Unwanted/Unused Apps

Deleting apps from iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is the quickest way to free up space on iDevices.

Firstly, go to Settings > General > Usage and then select the option of Manage Storage. Here you will see how much space is taken by particular app. Choose the app you want to delete, and tap its name, then tap the "Delete App" button on the next screen.

Or you can: Tap and hold the app icon and waiting for it to wiggle. Then tap the "X" that appears in the upper right corner.

Part 2. Disable Photo Stream

The Photo Stream automatically syncs up to 1,000 photos across your iOS devices. Sometimes, we may don’t want to see all photos on our iPhone appear in our iPad camera roll. So stop using Photo Stream unless you need to share your photos across all your iDevices all the time.

Go to Settings > Photos & Camera and deselect My Photo Stream. You should know this will delete all photos from your iPhone Photo Stream Album.

Part 3. Backup Photos/Videos/Songs and Delete Them from iDevices

Besides apps, photos, videos, and songs often take most part of our iOS storage space. It’s not surprising that you have at least 1 GB of photos on your iPhone, which can be a great deal to a 8 GB iPhone 5C. You will not need to always keep those media files on iDevices, just backup them to your home compute, and remove them from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

To back up photos, videos, music on computer in a viewable and playable format, you can try AnyTrans, an ALL Around iOS data manager that allows you to transfer almost all media files, personal info, and app from iDevice to computer including images, movies, songs, ringtones, voice memos, audiobooks, messages, notes, contacts, books, apps, etc.

Also Read: How to Backup iPhone to Computer >

Part 4. Clean Your Messaging Apps

Messages including text messages and iMessage messages can eat up a large part of your iPhone storage space. iMessage service allows users to send plain texts, and kinds of attachments like documents, photos, videos, which can waste a lot of space on iPhone. Check your Messaging app, and you will find there are a bunch of old conversations that you don’t need anymore. So just remove these messages to free up space for your iOS 9 update.

Resource: 5 Ways to Free up Space on iOS 9 Devices >

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