{"id":37256,"date":"2022-10-07T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37256"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T20:21:44","slug":"showing-the-amount-of-free-space-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/showing-the-amount-of-free-space-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing the Amount of Free Space on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Got tired of iOS lying about the free space so finally just built a 1 screen app to show the real free space available. Probably no way I can actually get this in the AppStore though.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He makes the code available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I really wish this info was actually exposed in the settings app.<\/p>\n

I’m so tired of explaining to friends and family why their phone is telling them they don’t have enough free space to accept an airdrop of some photos and videos; while also saying they have 200+GB of free space.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Kyle Howells<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple doesn’t count anything “purge-able” as actually existing. So local iCloud Photo Library caches don’t count, iCloud document caches don’t count.<\/p>

So Settings will say 200GB free, but if I AirDrop you a 2GB file it might fail saying you don’t have enough free space.<\/p>

Same with copying a file via the Files app from a USB stick. It’ll fail unless your true free space is enough for it, despite Settings app saying you have “up to 200GB we could clear if we need it”.<\/p>

So you might actually benefit from more space than you think, even with iCloud.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The only way to get more “real free space” I found to copy files onto my device was to run the camera to record video at max settings for 10mins. Then Delete and Delete from Recently Deleted.\nThat would free a chunk of “real free space”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n