I Phone full

J_B

Mrs B has an I Phone SE running IOS 14.6

It's trying to upgrade to the latest IOS (14.7.1), but is telling her there isn't enough room

Can anyone offer advice as to what to do to get this update done

Neil_Jones

Free up some space?  Remove apps, pictures, photos, videos...  That's all you can do realistically.

GDB2222

Does she have 'offload unused apps' enabled in settings?

JJC1956

Maybe transfer, Photos and Videos into Cloud. Check all of her apps in settings it will tell her how much of her storage allowance she is using per app.

J_B

She pays the 59p (?) per month for I Cloud storage, so can she just delete them off her phone and they will still be on the I Cloud?

CKhalvashi

J_B said:

She pays the 59p (?) per month for I Cloud storage, so can she just delete them off her phone and they will still be on the I Cloud?

This definitely is the case with Yandex Disk, so I'd assume similar with iCloud, but check the terms and conditions before doing anything.

Not an iPhone user here and I use a phone that was never available in the UK in the specs it has, but videos take up a lot of storage space in general, as do certain apps.

mrochester

J_B said:

She pays the 59p (?) per month for I Cloud storage, so can she just delete them off her phone and they will still be on the I Cloud?

You absolutely cannot delete them from your iPhone and have them remain on iCloud, that's not how iCloud Photos works.

What she needs to do is go to Settings, Photos and make sure Optimise iPhone Storage is turned on.

J_B

Neil_Jones said:

Free up some space?  Remove apps, pictures, photos, videos...  That's all you can do realistically.

I've removed several Whatsapp Videos

GDB2222 said:

Does she have 'offload unused apps' enabled in settings?

Yup, done that too

CKhalvashi said:

This definitely is the case with Yandex Disk, so I'd assume similar with iCloud, but check the terms and conditions before doing anything.

I've long since learned not to assume that anything aPpLe works the same as any other 'system'!

I *think* we have enough room now - will leave it to update overnight ....

CKhalvashi

J_B said:

CKhalvashi said:

This definitely is the case with Yandex Disk, so I'd assume similar with iCloud, but check the terms and conditions before doing anything.

I've long since learned not to assume that anything aPpLe works the same as any other 'system'!

I *think* we have enough room now - will leave it to update overnight ....

True.

If you're looking for additional storage space for free, I definitely can recommend the above for photo/video storage, up to 10gb IIRC.

See what happens and go from there will be my advice.

J_B

Update finally done this morning - think it was mainly the WhatsApp videos

Onwards and upwards and thanks all

chrisw

WhatsApp by default saves all the photos and videos to the phone. It it's anything 
like mine, 99% of the videos and photos are junk anyway.

Go on 'settings', 'chats' and turn off 'Save to camera roll'. You can still press on any picture you do want to save and select save to camera roll.