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iPad out of room

Settings –> General –> About

Look for the line Available.

Anything less than about 400 MB means you need to clean out your unused stuff.

To see what is using up your storage space, go to

Settings –> General –> Storage and iCloud Usage –> in the Storage section, click “Manage Storage”

You will see a list of the apps after a minute or so, with the apps taking up the most room at the top of the list.

Some general advice:

Assuming you have setup Google Drive correctly to automatically upload your photos and videos, you’ll still have a copy of them in Drive, even if you delete them from your iPad. [They’ll be the Google Photos folder on Drive].
To ACTUALLY delete photos/videos from your iPad, open up Photos –> Camera Roll.
Click SELECT.
Click on the photos/videos you want to delete.
Click the Trash icon, top left.
Click the message “Delete these x photos?”
Click “Albums”, top left
Open up “Recently Deleted”
Click “Select”, top right
Click “Delete All”, top left.
If you don’t clear out the Recently Deleted folder manually, it will empty itself in about a month.

The Google apps all have an option to store your document “locally” on the iPad. If you no longer need docs available when you don’t have an internet connection, then check the Docs part of this article: iPads –> what’s taking up all my storage?

Messages – those messages with pictures and videos take up ROOM. Delete them.
Mail – sometimes the Mail app takes up a ton of room. Actually, it’s all those emails that you never deleted. Delete them.
–> If deleting the mails sound like too much, then delete the account
[Settings –>Mail–> Accounts–>Select the account–>”Delete Account”
–> This does NOT actually delete your account from the Mail server – it just deletes your “window” into your mail account.
–> Then re-create it. For the MDS email, it’s a Google account type.
iMovie – delete your projects. You can export them into your Google drive if you’d like a copy of your final project.
Notability – anything deleted in Notability goes into a trash can which is emptied after about a month [similar to the way Photos works]. Click on the trash can to empty it manually.
Remember that deleting a note in Notability does NOT delete it from Drive.

Not everyone can update. Check Settings —> Software Update to see if you can.
Students cannot update at school, only at home. It’s a network thing.
It’s a ONE WAY street. Once you move your iPad to IOS11, there’s no going back.
It’s going to take a while – I’ve seen reports that say it will take anywhere from a half-hour to several hours. It all depends!
Some Apps will no longer work. For MDS the core standard apps will all work under IOS 11. To check the apps that won’t BEFORE you upgrade go to
Settings —> About —> Applications,
and look at the list.
If you need some nonworking apps removed from your iPad, send an email to Mr. Rule with the list.

Sometimes when app are installing while you are at school, then you go home, then come back to school the next day, the app install process hangs.

To jumpstart the process so the rest of your apps come in:

Doubleclick the Home button
Swipe up out of all the running apps
Press and hold the top power button until the slider “Swipe to Power Down” appears.
Swipe it.
Once the screen goes black, count SLOWLY to 30.
Press and hold the power button until the Apple Logo appears. Then let go.
Wait a long while – apps should start installing again.