You all know the holidays are almost upon us. That means lots of parties, family gatherings and of course photos. So the last thing you want to see after you have waited in the mall for an hour to have little Wyatt sit on Santa’s knee, then it took forever for him to warm up to the Big Guy in Red….Wait for it….Now he has the most adorable grin on his face so you have to get a picture of this…………………
But your phone says….. “NO STORAGE AVAILABLE” What!! Are you kidding me?
See this is why today we are going to be proactive and prepare for all those adorable or sometimes embarrassing photo opportunities. We are going to delete some unused and unnecessary stuff from your phone or tablet.
- MOVIES- I know you downloaded them to watch but you have watched them and you know the lines by heart. “Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner” or “I’ll be your huckleberry” Delete them. Unless, Finding Dory is the only thing that will keep your kid happy then you need that for self-preservation. But Momma’ movies and Dad’s movies they can go.
- MUSIC- This is a tough one for some of you. But if you went through a head banger stage and now you listen to only country. You can probably delete the stuff you don’t listen to.
- PODCASTS- Yes they were great. They were informative and enlightening, but now you have absorbed their content so delete them.
- GAMES – I realize that last summer Pokémon go was the hottest thing on the planet but you have not played it since August. Or you are the King of Candy Crush but then you got to the levels that are really hard – I mean that dang chocolate just keeps coming back. So now you have moved on to another game. Delete the ones you don’t play.
- APPS – Oh my goodness did you download the bubble wrap popping app when you first got your phone and then promptly decide it was annoying. Do you have 6 screens of apps? Do you have so many apps you can’t find the Key Ring that holds your discount cards when you are in the store? It might be time to evaluate what you really use and delete the rest.
- Last but not least go in and clear your app cache. Heck while you are at it clear your Internet cache also. You will be surprised how much space that takes up.
So there you have it six painless ways to make more space on your phone or tablet. Regardless of if you have an IPhone, Samsung, LG, Kyocera or a Motorola, if you use Apple, Google or Microsoft they all have limits at to the amount of storage space available.
Organize it and make the most of what you have.
Now go out there and be merry and bright. Enjoy all the feasting, fun and take some photos. I can’t wait to see them.
Mom and others who still have flip phone’s none of this applies. But I love that you stayed with me and read the entire thing. We will FaceTime later.
Thanks Pamela
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Hahaha I’m forever running out of space 🙂
I love your post.
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Thanks so much.
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Wonderful advice!
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Thanks
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Your welcome.
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Pamela you are an inspiration.
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Thanks so much. I appreciate your comments
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I have scheduled a post for this evening on “My Top Ten Tips for Healing Insomnia” It includes clearing clutter from the bedroom. I have added a link to your blog if that is OK by you?
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Of course. Anytime. Thanks for sharing.
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I went ahead and shared as I realised the time of day with you was perhaps not ideal.
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I’m glad you did. Thanks again.
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Thanks for the tips. I recently became an app collector. I have no idea why, but I have a tendency not to delete the ones I’m very fond of… Because I am positive, at some point in time I’ll need it.
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the good news is they are so easy to load that if you ever do need it you can download the latest version. That will save you some time too. It’s frustrating to have to do an update when you remember that you need that app. You are welcome!
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You are right about that…hmmm…which should be the first to go?
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Look at your settings and see which ones use the most space that you don’t use.
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I have over 6000 photos…that’s probably the biggest issue. Lol.
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You need to move those to another device ~ maybe an external hard drive, burn to a CD or a large flash drive. What would happen to them if you lost your phone or your computer suffered a fatal crash.
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I haven’t fully download them to my computer. A lot of them I’m reworking for blogs and other things. And, to be quite honest, I have quite a few that are crappy and just need to be deleted.
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there you go.
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A very cool and useful post! Thank you!
I also check the downloads in files and get rid of any pdf’s I downloaded but don’t need now such as bus timetables etc. Then there is erasing the data of any apps you don’t use (you have mentioned the cache which is a different beast as you know). You can also put things on your SD card such as photos and transfer over certain apps too.
The space the system itself uses is ridiculous on some phones too, my current one being a case in point…takes just over half the available storage before I started using it!
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Thanks. You are right about those other space grabbers. Mine too. My wordpress app is a space hog. So I only put it on my phone when I am out of pocket for an extended period of time.
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I never had this issue but since blogging i do.. the wp and twitter apps omg the space they take… and i only have twi songs down loaded no video. Instagram pic ..eeek. but whats app. Omg. I have to clear out so much ..and regularily
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Agreed. They do.
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I love this – any kind of clutter of mine makes me nervous. (am gratefully immune to caring about clutter of others)
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Thanks!
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You can also buy more data space but that wouldn’t cut the clutter.
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True.
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My space stealing culprit is Audible! Of course, to say this, I ignore that I have 6,000+ pics and therefore have to store them all in the cloud.
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ouch!
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I never realized that you could not complete updates for existing apps if your data storage was too full the IPad..
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