One of my readers recently wrote me concerning an iPad error message. She received it while trying to install a new app on her iPad. She was sure she had enough room left to install the app. But she told me the message “says it can’t download because there isn’t enough room.”
Or if having managed to download Big Sur you are confronted with the message: 'There is not enough free space on the selected volume to upgrade the OS!' , we are here to help.
The error message was actually about not enough “free space” to install the app. An app install generally requires twice the size of the app in free space on your iPad. The download uses a temp file for the installer, so the space needed can be much more than the size of the app. This is especially true of large app files such as complex games and detailed map programs.
- Google Play Store is solid. Android OS is flexible. App standards are getting better all the time and it mostly just works, until it doesn’t. Here are some things you can try if your Android device won’t download or install apps. Check your free space. Whenever you’re troubleshooting a device, it pays to never forget the basics.
- Did you encounter the problem that not enough free space on the mac disk to install Catalina update package? We often use mac until macOS prompts that the Mac disk has run out of the storage space, then we we realize that need to clean up the Mac's storage space.
- Then I do not understand the purpose of using iCloud Drive as a cloud storage, when it stores files in both locations. Second problem is, I want to import photos (100+GB) to Photos app, but again, Mac OS says I do not have enough space to do it (because iCloud Drive is taking up all the local space).
By the way, you may have noticed that many popular apps have increased dramatically in size during the last year. This is largely because of the Retina Display on newer models of the iPad. It takes many more pixels to generate those sharp graphics on the iPad screen. Screens on these new models have four times as many pixels as older models, so apps contain new images that require more space. These high quality images generate larger files in terms of megabytes.
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You can find which apps are taking up the most memory on your iPad. See this article for directions.