Free for apple instal Hell is Others2/25/2024 ![]() Well then maybe the logic is opposite? Maybe Messages is using MORE space by enabling iCloud. Well, if I enable iCloud on Messages, that should offload the media and less-recently-used messages to the Cloud, freeing up space on my device, right? Oh shoot, I have Messages already enabled in iCloud! Oh shoot, it won’t let me delete the app! It’s one of those non-removable apps. So I really have to toss Messages in order to get the most conservative use of my iPad? Fine, I’ll do it. So now what? The biggest hitter now is Messages, at 6GB. I did the iCloud Backup because I was out of space, and my recollection was that the only way to recover the “System Data” space was to backup > erase > restore, which I did. ![]() But that just rewinded me to where I was 2 weeks back when I was in the same situation. ![]() And an iCloud Backup also failed, no doubt due to lack of local space, ironic as that is.Īfter jettisoning a bunch of apps, I got just enough functionality to do an iCloud Backup. These lousy photos of my glary, smeary screen are because I can’t even perform a screen shot. And yet even those I’ve been slashing to try to recover functionality of my iPad, since everything is broken with space being full. You can see the paltry yellow segment used by my apps which are, ostensibly, the ENTIRE reason I own this device. I don’t even bother to try to keep my Photos or Music on here. Note that this is distinct from the ~20% burned by “iPadOS”. ![]()
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