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With bigger screen than iPhone and less weight than Mac, iPad is perfect for entertainment to many iOS users.

However iPad is always easy to gather tons of melodies and videos, let alone various games. No wonder why lots of people ask “why is my iPad storage full” We should know more about iPad storage issues, and learn how to fix iPad storage almost full error.

5 Tips to Fix iPad Storage Full When It's Not

First of all, you should get an idea of what is eating up your iPad storage, so as to identify what should be managed to get back space on iPad. Go to Setting > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage to check your iPad storage. And the following tips are provided to deal with the most common iPad storage full problems.

Tip 1 Delete Old Emails and Messages

When your iPad storage full, you should come to emails and messages,most of which may not be necessary to store. If you have every email and message stored on your iPhone, those can really add up. For those important mails and messages which need to be stored, you need to manage them well.

Here we take deleting messages for example:

Step 1: Open "Messages" app on your iPad.

Step 2: Hit "Edit" button at the upper left corner.

Step 3: Select unwanted messages and hit "Delete" at the bottom.

To delete emails:

You can tap the Mail app icon, and trash them away. Or you can log out your email account and all the emails will be removed from your iPad.

Tip 2 Uninstall Seldom Used Apps

iPad storage full but no Apps installed? Not possible! Quite a few apps are downloaded for following and one-off use, and then forgotten in the corner on iPad. Some of these apps can take up hundreds of MBs in your iPhone with big size of downloaded files and cache data.

You can uninstall apps in: "Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage".

Then tap the unwanted app and hit "Delete App".

Tip 3 Remove "Other" Data Stored on iPad

If you check your iPad’s memory usage through iTunes, usually there is a section called “Other” which eats up a huge storage space. Mainly, any file that doesn’t fit into the default categories goes into “Other.” This includes corrupted files, Safari bookmarks and history, text messages, calendar entries, Siri cache, contact photos etc. If you totally remove all the other data, your iPad storage full must be fixed.

It’s easy to remove iPad “Other” storage, the FREE trial version of iMyFone iPad Cleaner is the perfect solution, the program provides the free function of removing junk. After having removed all these useless files, the "Other" storage on iTunes will be gone too.

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Another way to remove “Other” from app, it's to uninstall and reinstall all Apps, and all these files will be deleted.

Tip 4 Disable Automatic Download & Background Apps Refresh Service

Apps with new features are more eye-catching and convenient while not every app needs constant auto-updating. Downloading apps not only occupy iPad storage, but also slow down your iPad when many apps are running at the same time.

Turn Off Automatic Downloads

To fix the problem of iPad storage almost full, you can go to Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads. Turn the items like Apps, Updates off to disable automatic downloads.

Turn Off Background App Refresh

Background apps refresh service should be closed for the same reason. You can disable Background apps refresh service in Settings > General > Background App Refresh.

Tip 5 All-in-One Solution to Fix iPad Storage Full When It's Not

If you want to use a safe and quick way to resolve iPad storage full issue, then you can’t miss iMyFone iPad Cleaner . With unique and advanced technique, this space saver can release tremendous space by just one click.

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Erase iOS data : erase private files or the files deleted in the pass to make sure sensitive data is totally removed.

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How to Use iMyFone iPad Cleaner to Fix iPad Memory Full Problem

Step 1: Install iMyFone software on your PC/Mac and connect iPad to your computer. Pay attention that iTunes also must be installed.

Step 2: Click on “Quick Scan” to begin the iPad storage analyse.

Step 3: Select the files that you want to delete and click “Clean”.

The space saver is really helpful for the iPad storage full issues, with this powerful tool, clear iPad storage is no longer a trouble for you!

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