I am curious what I may had accidentally removed during the update. Before the update I had 1.9 GB left out of my 64GB 5S. I now have 19.4 GB. All my songs appear to be in, and as far as I see, the photos are in tact, my apps didn't delete, how did IOS 8 free up that much more space?
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19.4 GB more space from 1.9 GB before update?
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Just a theory but if you had a lot of audio/video messages in iMessage conversations iOS 8 removes them after a period by default.
I'm unsure if this would retroactively apply to old messages sent under iOS 7 upon upgrade or not though.
I'm unsure if this would retroactively apply to old messages sent under iOS 7 upon upgrade or not though.
still not sure what got deletedThis is interesting... I'll have to keep an eye on this as well when I update my phone. My 16gb 5 is jammed with junk from imessage group convos. Hopefully it will clean all those up for me.
I just started the update with 1.1gb free storage. I will report back with the iOS8 free storage after the update finishes.
Welp, that didn't help me at all. Went from 1.1gb free to 597mb.
I just started the update with 1.1gb free storage. I will report back with the iOS8 free storage after the update finishes.
Welp, that didn't help me at all. Went from 1.1gb free to 597mb.
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Did you guys turn on icloud photo storage? I think that's why my storage went way up. It uploads all your pics to icloud but keeps a smaller copy of the photos in the device.
They can now be found under the Photo tab. I went from 356MB to 3.5GB available space. I only had 40 or so pictures. Not enough to justify the huge jump in available space.
This didn't happen to me, but my best guess would be that it deleted your old Messages. The new option to delete them after a certain time defaults to after 1 year, so it might've gotten rid of messages older than that automatically.
That seems like a lot of space for messages though, so maybe not.
That seems like a lot of space for messages though, so maybe not.