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It's why I never use my 32GB base iPad; install more than a few apps and you run out of space. Turn iCloud Photos on? Even with "Optimize storage", that'll kee
by concinds 5y ago
It's why I never use my 32GB base iPad; install more than a few apps and you run out of space.
Turn iCloud Photos on? Even with "Optimize storage", that'll keep about 3-5GB of local thumbnails on your device, wasting space.
iCloud Notes on? Your 5+GB of notes will all be stored locally; no storage optimization there.
Use Apple Music? It'll use about 7-8GB of local storage, not for any downloaded songs (I haven't downloaded any) but purely for album artwork, cache, and other junk. There is no way to ever delete that Apple Music cache; not even cancelling Apple Music, turning off Cloud Library, or deleting the Apple Music app. The only way, is to reset the iPad completely, and delete the Music app before it can start syncing anything from the cloud. i.e.: you have to switch to Spotify.
These are all Apple apps.
When an iPad has low free storage, it'll delete user data from 3rd-party apps, and those apps have to redownload user data from the cloud every time you open the app. Notability is a good example. Everything's gone, wait 5min for it to resync.
The iPad might be my main device if Apple fixed this, and it would lock me much deeper into Apple's ecosystem, but they don't seem to understand the value of minimizing storage use.