I have a 16GB 4S. I've read a couple of articles online saying I will need to "free up quite a bit of space" on my phone if I want to try and update to iOS 7 via OTA. Is this true? And if so, just how much space do I need to make available? I think I have 1.3GB free at the moment. Will this suffice?
- C
iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.3
IOS 7 has not been released.
Until it is, no one can know the answer to your question.
We won't know until Apple releases iOS 7.0, whether it will even be available as an OTA update or not. In any case, 1.3GB's of free space will most likely be insufficient. If you don't have enough free space, you'll get an error message & "Download & Install" will be greyed out.
I highly doubt that 1.3GB free will be enough, as that would not be enough to download, uncompress, and install, iOS 6.
OTA updates take more space then doing the update through your computer's iTunes, since your iPhone must have space for the downloaded file, for the uncompressed installer of that download, and then some temp space as it actually installs the updated firmware. As near as I remember, iOS 6 took up something like 600MB of space, but required something closer to 2.5GB of free space for the OTA update download/installation process.
I'd guess you will either need to free up some space (how much we won't know until it is released) or you could try downloading in iTunes and updating from there, instead of an OTA update.
Thanks Michael,
The question was asked more for my wife, as she likes to do everything wirelessly if possible. I, on the other hand, have no issues hooking up to iTunes to upgrade if I need to. She has more free space available than I do (3.5 GB, I think) so she shouldn't have an issue.
Are there iPhone 4/4s space requirements for ios 7 update?
