When you delete an app in the normal way, you delete both the app binary – the code of the app itself – and any documents and settings saved within the app. Removing an app in this manner takes with it your configuration settings delete a game and you’ll likely delete all your progress, too.įortunately, Apple offers another way: app offloading. On this blog, we’ve outlined how to free up storage space on a device by deleting apps and games. And although you can make use of cloud storage for documents, you’re stuck when apps and games are taking up precious space. With Macs, this can be an inconvenience, but it’s usually possible to offload data to external drives.
Increasingly, Apple devices have fixed internal storage you cannot expand. Software & Apps Free up space on your iPhone or iPad by offloading apps
