En Actualidad iPhone We continue to test the first beta version of iOS 11 on our iPhone and iPad devices and, as the days go by, we discover many more news than Tim Cook and his people showed us at the conference last Monday. What's more, some of these undisclosed news are extremely useful and important, and the vast majority of users will like them very much. This is the case of what I am here to tell you today: who has not ever been concerned about the available storage space on their iDevice?
Little by little, Apple is including more storage space on the iPhone and iPad, however, applications, music, data, photos, videos, podcasts, etc., take up a lot of space and, sometimes, we are surprised. Well, the new "Storage" section of the Settings app in iOS 11 will help us free up local storage on our devices that we can use in things that interest us much more. Let's see what this is about.
iOS 11 offers us an efficient way to manage local storage on our devices
Last Monday, after two and a half hours of inaugural Keynote, we ended up a bit saturated. This is what the Worldwide Developer Conference has, which is an annual event full of news, however, this year, we attended one of the most complete WWDCs in recent years, with many new features in terms of hardware (something unusual at this event) and, of course, a huge shower of news in terms of software.
The greatest role was taken iOS 11, the next version of the operating system for mobile devices of the bitten apple, which now begins to differentiate itself much more with specific functions and characteristics depending on whether it is the iPhone or the iPad. In addition, there are so many news that a good part of them were not counted and even today, five days later, we continue to unravel them.
One aspect that matters to all of us, to a greater or lesser extent, on our devices is local storage. Apple has never stood out for being especially generous in this regard and, although it already offers more GB in our iPhone and iPad, sometimes we can still fall short. In order that we do not get last minute surprises, iOS 11 includes a renewed section "Storage" that will be of great help to free up local space that we are occupying with things that really do not interest us Or, at least, we are so interested in them.
To better illustrate what this is about, take a look at the following screenshot taken with my iPad:
Automatic processes
The best management of storage capacity in our devices is an extremely important enhancement introduced by iOS 11 (still in beta) and that, however, went unnoticed, for not mentioned, during WWDC.
From now on, to users It will be extremely easy for us to know how we are occupying the local storage of our iPhone or iPad but, what is more important, from there we can proceed to free storage where and when we deem it necessary. Fantastic! True?
This new section offers us a very graphic visual image of what takes up the most storage on our device, Photos, Messages, Media or Applications, just like in iTunes. And then we find a series of options to automate the process of freeing up local space, based on the preferences that we have as users, with which we will no longer have to investigate and free up space manually.
Helpful Recommendations
The new system will also offer us useful tips for us to free up local spaceFor example, if the conversations in the Messages app are taking up too much space, iOS 11 may recommend that we automatically delete all conversations that are more than a year old. And even eliminate applications that we have not used for a long time while maintaining the data and document so that we do not lose them, and as our colleague Ignacio explained to us here.
Thus, it is really interesting to see how Apple not only offers devices with greater internal storage capacity, but also simultaneously renews and upgrade your iCloud storage plans and offers a better way for users to manage the storage of our iPhone and iPad.
