There is a lot of content that we store on our iPhone and that take up space on it. From the photos to the movies that we download to the very applications that we install. Some applications that, in some cases, can weigh several GB and that we can uninstall without completely deleting them to recover the space on our iPhone and prevent the storage from being saturated .
Uninstall does not affect app data
The grace of uninstalling applications is that we delete content that we can very easily recover . In other words, we delete, yes, but we do not lose your data. A simple download from the App Store and everything is back to normal.
Here it is important that we bear in mind that there are two things in an application that take up space . On the one hand, we have the application itself, the executable, while on the other there is all the data that the application saves. Uninstalling an app removes the app but not the data, while deleting it wipes everything out.
And this is the key difference of everything we are talking about. That we can keep all our data and recover space by deleting only the app, as long as we do not use it regularly. Uninstalling an application is very simple, these are the steps to follow:
- We open the Settingsapp on our iPhone or iPad.
- We enter General.
- We touch on iPhone Storage.
- We choose the app that we want to uninstall.
- We tap on Uninstall app.
A simple touch and we recover our app
Above all, we will not delete the app through the small x at the top left of the application, as this would also delete the data. Well done, following the steps that we have just discussed, we will see that the application will continue on the home screen and in the application library, but that it will show a small cloud just before its name.
This is the indicator that the app is not installed, so the space it would occupy is free. Recovering this app is as simple as touching it. The system detects that we want to run an app that it does not have and automatically goes to the App Store to download it again . We don’t have to do anything at all, just wait for the download to complete.
It is true that depending on the speed of our internet connection and the size of the application, the wait may be longer than we would like, but as long as it is about apps that we do not use regularly , this system is very interesting .