How to identify unnecessary applications on the iPhone and get rid of them

Volume drives iOS-devices is growing every year, but a shortage of free space still remains. The easiest way to clean up a couple of gigabytes of free, removing unused applications. Fortunately, through them manually by browsing folders on the desktop, it is not necessary. There are more simple and convenient way.

Starting with iOS 11 under System Settings "Storage" is now displayed not only occupied the application memory space, but also the last date of use. Unfortunately, there is no sorting by date, but due to the fact that the programs are displayed in descending order of weight, it turns out even better.

To determine the unused programs, simply go to "Settings» → «Basic» → «Storage iPhone» and wait a few seconds until the Index Data. Then only will carefully review the list of installed applications and remove unnecessary.

There are two ways: the actual removal and unloading. In the first case, the source of the application and all of its data is completely removed from the device memory. If the program is needed again, it will need to re-download from the App Store.

From the usual removal of discharge is different in that only the application itself is deleted from memory. In this case, all his documents and data are stored until such time as the program is again required. icon application in this case is not removed from the desktop, and marked cloud icon. This means that the program can be restored tapnuv icon.

If you remove an application temporarily to clear space, it is more convenient to use the upload. But when the program is simply no longer needed, it is right for removal.

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