[nfbcs] Emptying Trash Folders on iDevices

[Peter Donahue]

Hello everyone,

 

                Although we've had our iDevices for just over a year there
are still tasks we're unsure of how to perform such as completely  removing
unwanted phone and e-mail messages from these devices. My iPhone
occasionally throws a message saying "Storage is nearly full" leading me to
believe that the storage is almost used up. Oneway to alieviate this and to
free up storage on a desktop or a laptop is to regularly empty the "Deleted
Items" or "Trash"folders within certain programs or on a device such as a
NAS drive. How does one do this on an iPhone or iPad? I know for a fact that
the "Mail" App on my iPhone has loads of messages deleted from my inbox. I
want to completely remove them from the device. The same is true within the
"Phone" App. There are old voicemail and other phone messages I simply want
gone from the device so they no longer hog up storage freeing it to handle
other tasks and run other Apps. I'm also looking for apps I'm no longer
using and removing them too. There's no sense in keeping something around if
you're not using it and all it's doing is taking up storage. Any assistance
in removing unwanted data and unused apps will help out a lot.

 

                If someone could explain how to remove unwanted apps
directly on the iDevice or via iTunes will also assist us in making better
use of storage on these devices. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Peter Donahue