How to Free Up Space on iPad Air/Air 2 and iPad mini 2/mini 3 Easily

If you try to download some wonderful movies you want to watch on iPad Air/mini, but you get a message that says "Cannot Download – There is not enough available storage to download these items", you should know that your iPad Air/mini has run out of space. Unlike Android or Symbian phones, Apple doesn't allow you to add a SD card to have more space on iPad Air/mini. Thus, you may want to figure out how to free up space on iPad Air/mini.

We are here to help you free up space on iPad Air/mini. In this guide, we will introduce you three ways to free up your limited space on iPad Air/mini.

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Part 1. Remove Apps on iPad Air/Air 2 and iPad mini 2/mini 3 to Free Up Space

Sometimes, we may have downloaded many apps on our iPad Air/mini to play games, watch videos & movies, and shop online. These apps could eat up the limited storage space and slow down the running speed of iPad Air/mini. It is a good way to free up space on iPad Air/mini by removing the apps you don't use for a long time. Go to Settings > General > Usage, wait for a moment, and you can see which apps are occupying the most space. Now tap on the apps you don't use and hit the "Delete App" button on the next screen. If you want to free up more extra space, you can continue reading to find a good solution for you.

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Part 2. Clear Photos & Videos on iPad Air/Air 2 and iPad mini 2/mini 3 to Free Up Enough Space

If you have stored many high quality photos and videos on your iPad Air/mini, there is no doubt that iPad Air/mini has run out of space. A 720P HD video takes up nearly 2 or 2.5 GB for every hour of footage and a photo could ask for 2 or 3 MB on device. Photos and videos on your iPad Air/mini could consume a lot of space, thus, deleting them could increase storage on device. Before deleting these photos or videos, you can create backup for these files on computer.

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Part 3. Remove Junk Files on iPad Air/Air 2 and iPad mini 2/mini 3 to Free Up Space

You may not know that a lot of junk files like caches, cookies, temp files, and crash logs have stored on your device and are eating up the limited space on iPad Air/mini with time. It is not easy for people to notice and clear out these files. If you want to clear these junk files to free up space, you had better use a good tool to give you a hand. PhoneClean is a professional cleaner to clean up your iPad Air/mini. It could remove the junk files on device with a few clicks to free up storage space and boost up the running speed of your iPad Air/mini. Now download PhoneClean before reading the step-by-step tutorial below.

Step 1. Launch PhoneClean > Connect your iPad Air/mini to computer via a USB cable > Click on Quick Clean on the homepage > Tap Scan button.

Step 2. Select the items you want to clean > Click on Clean button.

The Bottom Line

If you want to clear your private information like messages, call history, Safari history and more, you can use PhoneClean to remove them from iPad Air/mini permanently. For any question you have, you can contact our support team , they will reply to you within 24 hours. If this guide is very useful, please share it with your friends. Have a try on PhoneClean now.