how do you manage the space on your ios device?

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  1. Blackharon

    Blackharon Well-Known Member

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    I don't know about you... but I'm still in 2010
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  2. JamesDean69

    JamesDean69 Well-Known Member

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    Space and Time are the biggest problems for me. I feel like ive become more of an app collector. Dont want that, but it just happens to be the case. Between my consoles and ios games i have a ton of games i want to play but just never get to. Then i get mad when i see them go on sale for .99 2 weeks later when i bought them for 9.99. or in the case of NFS Hot Pursuit not even a week later it went from 9.99 to .99. Talk about being mad at yourself. I have a 32Gig iphone 4 and a 64Gig iphone. I use my ipad mostly for games now since most games come out on both. but even with 64 gigs im still running out of space. Each new game now are all half a gig to a gig each. Its frustrating when u have 8 great RPGs that u havent even started yet and Dungeon Hunter 2, Infinity Blade, Aralon, Eternal Legacy etc all get released. A normal person with a life just doesnt have the time to play all these games. I try to load one of these games ata time that im playing to save space. But there are games like Tony Hawk, Slugfest, Doodle Jump etc that u always want on your device cause u never know when u might get a fix to play them.
     
  3. LBG

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    I have 20 GB of apps :eek: I should probably delete some to make some more room, but it's hard to choose which apps to delete.
     
  4. skidbubble

    skidbubble Active Member

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    I'm going to go out on a limb and call B.S. you do not have a 64 gig iPhone. Nice try.
     
  5. hkiphone

    hkiphone Well-Known Member

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    Maybe it was an autocorrect that changed iPad to iPhone, as he was referencing the 64 GB iPad in the next sentence.

    I've got a problem with free space too. Can't download any of the latest titles because of their huge size and no space left. My fault for using AutoFill for music! But I don't want to delete some games I haven't finished yet, because I've got like 50% done, and as far as I know, reinstalling them via iTunes does not restore the last game saves. That's quite poor form from Apple. Does anyone have any workaround this?
     
  6. porkchop

    porkchop Well-Known Member

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    I have a 3rd gen touch 32gb with 20g free I have alot of game but scares to keep them in device cuz of fear it will slow it down will I have problems with slowdowns if my device is full?
     
  7. JamesDean69

    JamesDean69 Well-Known Member

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    yes thanks thats what i meant. a 64 gig ipad not iphone.
     
  8. Sainter

    Sainter Well-Known Member

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    I own basically every Gameloft and EA game on the App Store.

    In early 2010 when my 16gb iPod crashed and I had to restore everything from my (lack of) backups I organised my collection. I had 4gb of music, 2gb of movies and 8gb of apps. My collection consisted on 2 pages of applications, one page dedicated to Gameloft, one to EA, one to Chillingo and the other 6 had other games.

    Coming to the end of 2010 I have the same iPod and have 4gb of music, 0.1 gb of movies and 10gb of games. Only thing is it is now 3 pages of applications, one page to EA, one to Chillingo and 3 for other games (Including only 4 Gameloft games that still fit and are constantly rotated).

    I need more space :(
     
  9. gospel9

    gospel9 Well-Known Member

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    Apple NEEDS to have a native API for storing app save data. Hopefully it'd be in iOS 5...
     
  10. selidor

    selidor Member

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    I have a measly little 8GB 2G Touch, and over the last couple of months it's become really difficult to manage space.

    I generally sort things out by removing any music that I'm not likely to listen to regularly, as opposed to just keeping my whole library on there like I initially did, and just by being really ruthless with which games and apps stay installed. Anything I'm not playing really regularly gets cut, unless for example it's an RPG with a save file that would take a long time to build up again. Even then I sometimes have to just delete them (I had to delete Chaos Rings a few weeks ago because it was just taking up too much space relative to how much time I was putting into it).

    I generally don't keep more than one or two 'big' games like Aralon that are 200MB+ on it any more. I can't wait until I can afford to upgrade to something larger because so many of my games are just wasted because I don't have the space for them, and without a way to save the game data there's no point taking them on and off the iPod all the time.
     
  11. Sambo110

    Sambo110 Well-Known Member

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    Got a 32 gig two years ago, never delete paid apps and only delete crappy free apps (but not so much now they all appear off the page), and I still have like 10+ gigs left, so I don't have to worry about space :D
     
  12. Paradiso

    Paradiso Well-Known Member

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    64gb iPad

    Well worth the $998 :)

    After I restored I only redownloaded my favorite apps, and they're neatly tucked away in folders. The only music I have on here are the songs that I listen to while gaming, cause everything else goes on an iPod
     
  13. Qordobo

    Qordobo Well-Known Member

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    Just got on my ipad a drive capacity overloaded shown on iTunes, lol, yes the iPad stored more than it is supposed to do.

    One or two days after to have installed ios4 I quote I was too close to max and had to make a clean and forget it. And now again, another big cleaning to do, and I didn't buy yet much of the recent pack of big releases, iPad 64Gb but it's not that much with games going more and more fat.
     
  14. g-unit-14

    g-unit-14 Well-Known Member

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    i got 3GS and yestrday i had about 400mb left from 16GB 11GB in my iphone are all games other photos and music ... so i deleted few games yestrday and got 3GB space btw when u end up like me with 400mb left your iphone/ipod will be sooooooooooooo SLowww i mean slow in the way when u hold on your app icon it will take 5 sec to get them shake then press the home button again 5 sec to come to nroaml hehe
     

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