Wednesday, October 21, 2015

How to Manage Photos and Declutter your iPad

October iPad Club

Magic Video — 3D Printing 

Photos
Where to store photos
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8467289/cloud-photo-storage-comparison-dropbox-icloud-flickr-onedrive-free

Google Photos discussion
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-photos-is-the-best-way-to-store-photos-2015-7

What to do when you need more space on your iPad.
De cluttering iPad
To check your storage usage in Settings, go to General, scroll down a bit and check Usage

Delete all apps you were not using
If you're not sure about deleting an app you can open it on your home screen and delete it from that. 

Check on how much storage you saved after you do this

Delete photo doubles
Go to settings, iCloud photos and camera and turn off iCloud Photo Library

Also turn off my photo stream

If you have a lot of photos on your phone or iPad you can use cloud storage options either iCloud, dropbox,  Google photos, Flicker, MSOneDrive

You can also store them on the hard drive of your computer. Synch with Photos.

Check out Photo Transfer App in the App Store.  You can move photos to any computer with this app. 

You have back ups of all the photos you deleted in your photos app. If you're sure you do not want to use on your iPad you can go in and delete them. Your iPad or iPhone keeps them for 30 days before deleting.

Go back to check the storage.  

Now see what taking up most of the room.  
Podcasts?  No harm in deleting. You can get them later.

Some can't be deleted from settings. IBooks. Open app to delete books you do not want. 

Bring apps up to date. Go to App Store. Select updates. Update All or do it one at a time.

Back up to preserve settings.  Use iCloud backup or iTunes backup.  Some recommend a separate backup of images and videos. 

Interesting app — Companion