{"id":71992,"date":"2026-02-06T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=71992"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:37:59","slug":"upgrade-to-ios-diskspace-issue-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/upgrade-to-ios-diskspace-issue-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to iOS Diskspace Issue Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPad\/ipad_ios_upgrade_not_enough_disk_space.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Upgrade to iOS Diskspace Issue Tutorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPad\/ipad_ios_upgrade_not_enough_disk_space.gif\" title=\"Upgrade to iOS Diskspace Issue Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upgrade to iOS Diskspace Issue Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For those of us <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Apple\" href='\/\/apple.com' rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a> iOS users not so keen on <a target=\"_blank\" title='Apple iCloud' href='https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/' rel=\"noopener\">iCloud<\/a> to store data, when it comes to iOS upgrades on your iPhone or iPad, it could be that you run into the issue <font size=1>(like us, twice now, on two different iOS devices)<\/font>, that no matter how many files you cull you cannot come in over the requirement for free disk space that the default iOS Upgrade workflow asks for.<\/p>\n<p>End of story &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSo sad\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; unless &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>If you have access to an Apple MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with some diskspace on it, and you have the necessary Apple white lead<sup>age<\/sup>s, and you have a good power supply, and you are allowed to wrestle the Apple MacBook Air or MacBook Pro away from it&#8217;s gatekeeper\/user\/lord\/lady\/mn\u00e1\/fir <font size=1>(and please, if you are a male foreigner at a hurling match needing the loo, do not head for the ablution block labelled &#8220;mn\u00e1&#8221; &#8230; that being said &#8230; if you are a female foreigner at a hurling match needing the loo, do not head for the ablution block labelled &#8220;fir&#8221;)<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>We will give you <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Useful\" href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-au\/108905' rel=\"noopener\">this useful link<\/a> from Apple for formal guidance here, and\/or you could view our experience with today&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" title='Tutorial animated GIF' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/iPad\/ipad_ios_upgrade_not_enough_disk_space.gif' rel=\"noopener\">tutorial animated GIF &#8220;stream of consciousness&#8221; iPad iOS Upgrade presentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d71992' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d71992\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/apple\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d71992' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us Apple iOS users not so keen on iCloud to store data, when it comes to iOS upgrades on your iPhone or iPad, it could be that you run into the issue (like us, twice now, on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/upgrade-to-ios-diskspace-issue-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19,20,25,29,33,37],"tags":[91,4964,249,2346,611,626,630,1795,3810,2178,885,1127,1166,1319,1504,2649],"class_list":["post-71992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-hardware","category-installers","category-ios","category-networking","category-operating-system","category-software","category-tutorials","tag-apple","tag-apple-white-lead","tag-configuration","tag-diskspace","tag-install","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-lead","tag-macbook-air","tag-macos","tag-operating-system-2","tag-settings","tag-software-2","tag-tutorial","tag-upgrade","tag-white-lead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71998,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71992\/revisions\/71998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}