Today I learned.
I should have remembered because I have a friend who uses it occasionally. He works with kids and thinks he’s cool. Haha
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I should have remembered because I have a friend who uses it occasionally. He works with kids and thinks he’s cool. Haha
The words 'Maintenance' and 'iPhone' in the same sentence: something I thought I'd never see.
Turns out it didn't mean what 'Maintenance' means to me anyway.
I'd call this housekeeping.
Turns out it didn't mean what 'Maintenance' means to me anyway.
I'd call this housekeeping.
I do all of this every month, across my devices. Every quarter then I wipe them clean and reinstall everything to clear the detritus that is left in my System Data folder. It may be my imagination but I fancy everything works quicker as a result and it does free up around 1-2gb of storage for me every time.
I don't know if there's a way, but it would be cool to be able to lock certain contacts, and then delete all, but the locked ones would be safe.
Doesn’t reinstalling everything take a lot of time? Do you have a proven method?
On my iPhone with a limited number of apps, this is easy to accomplish...but on the MacBook with lots of settings and programs?
Regarding the effectiveness, I am sure this is the way to go. Nothing beats a clean install.
My bad I meant to say my iDevices, as in my iPads and iPhones. I don’t touch my MacBookPro (I’m planning a clean install on a yearly basis but only had it 6 months so far).
As far as my method. I do a clean fresh backup on each of my devices. Then once I am done with that I’ll reset as far as reinstalling from backup whilst charging to full. I start the restore on my phone right away and pair to my watches one that is done. Once that is done on the iPads I will leave it until about 10 - 15 minutes before I go to bed. That way I have a nice fresh install waiting for me when I wake up the following morning.
Yeah, but I'll virtually never actually scroll through all my contacts looking for someone. People I call/msg most frequently will be in my favourites, or the automatic Siri suggestions, or near the top of my chats in WhatsApp. And for anyone else I'll use the search feature.
I know. i am the say way. I know as soon as I delete something, I will be looking for it the next day. I rather pay extra for a larger storage iPhone than delete anything!
I have my complete text history since my first iPhone (3G) in 2008. I never delete text unless they are spam. With Messages in the Cloud, it luckily doesn't take as much space as it used to. The iCloud 2TB plan has let me stay with a 256GB iPhone while having a 600 GB photo library and a 40 GB messages archive. You never know what you might need to find on an old text, whether from a memory of someone who passed, or for a legal matter
I don't get people storing their txt's and even emails for decades in some instances.
Literally when will you ever go through them?
It's the electronic equivalent of hoarding junk that your descendents will throw in a skip the week after you die.
Literally when will you ever go through them?
It's the electronic equivalent of hoarding junk that your descendents will throw in a skip the week after you die.