Worried that you might be filling up your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and wondering how to check to see how much storage you have left? Take a picture, download an app, and come up with a message that tells you there is not enough space on your device to install or save? Checking your available storage can save you a lot of time and headache, and let you know when you need to free up space before you run into any problems. Hit the jump to find out how.
To check available storage on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad:
- Launch the Settings app
- Choose the General tab
- Finally, choose the About tab and scroll until you see the Available option.
That's it, now you know! If you have any other device management tips, let us know in the comments!
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Daily Tip: How to check available storage on your iPhone or iPad
For some reason either the app store or my iPhone is lying to me. I was attempting to download Dream:Scape the other day and it said it was 400mb or something and my iPhone said I had 1.2gb available. However, when I tried to install it my phone said not enough space available.
Strange.
Often apps I download are like 200mb when you look at the ipa on the computer but when you go to install it in iTunes they show as sometimes double that.
Let's Golf 2 is 305mb but iTunes shows it as 555.6mb so I can only assume it is because they are essentialy zip files so iTunes shows them uncompressed.
If you've jailbroken your phone - this number will be off by roughly 1-2GB - Cydia partitions your iOS device to store the information, programs and other stuff, and iOS doesn't see this as "used" space, rather as "empty" space..