[nfbcs] Emptying Trash Folders on iDevices

[Deborah Armstrong]

One other tip: Under the list in storage, showing all the apps and how much space they, and their data consume, I use a two-finger flick down to read all the data in to a digital recorder. I just pres record and use the two-finger flick. This gives me a record of the apps so I don't have to go through the list again and again. 

In this list, you can double-tap on the app, and see a detail screen showing how much storage the app consumes and how much storage its data consumes. You can also delete the app from that screen, which makes it disappear; then the list takes a while to refresh.

So there are actually two ways to remove apps.

Unlike Android, in iOS, the only way to remove the data in a batch is to remove the app. Sometimes that's quicker; remove Bard, Read2Go or Kindle, re-install them from your app store and you get the app without the data.

--Debee


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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Cannon via nfbcs
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2016 5:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Emptying Trash Folders on iDevices

You can remove an app by doing the following:

Find the app on your home screen or inside a folder.

Double tap and hold on the app you want gone until you hear a series of rising clicks (about 2 seconds).

This will put you in an edit mode where you can remove apps, create folders, etc.

While in this mode, double tap on any app. Instead of opening it, the device will prompt you if you want to delete it or not.

There is no trash for deleted apps. Once they're gone they're gone, and all their data will be gone with them:

To find out what is eating up all your space, simply go to settings, general, STORAGE and ICloud Usage, Manage Storage. Inside there you will find a list, organized by size, of all your apps and the amount of storage they are using.

It is pretty unlikely that email messages are taking up a segnificant amount of your storage, even if you have tons.

Good luck.

Aaron

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> On Sep 11, 2016, at 17:33, Peter Donahue via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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