Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Apple has forced the iOS7 update file onto my iPAD2 and this update is sitting in the "other" folder indicated by the yellow bar in iTunes. I never wanted to upgrade - how do I get rid of this 2.3 GB file that has eaten away my iPAD capacity? This is very frustrating as I had spent a lot of time cleaning my iPAD to free up some space and now this !
ggggggggg's method worked for me on iPhone 4S. The "Other" size shrank after 4-5 power downs.
ggggggggg wrote:
I have figured out a way to delete the pushed source file. Back up your device on iTunes so that the pushed source file is backed up. Reboot the iOS device - it may take 2-3 reboots for the source file to disappear from the yellow "other" folder. Delete the backup under iTunes and take a fresh backup.
One will have to ensure that your device is then never plugged into a power socket with the wifi / cellular network on otherwise it will attempt to download the file again.
This worked for me and I hope it works for others as well.
I agree with you totally Sir ggggggg.... Apple FORCES its products on people. If you do not really want to force the new OS on people, why remove its support on the old OS? Why hide gigabyte large files on the ipad so no one can DELIBERATELY remove them? I find the loss of controlling disk space in the ipad2 to be very controlling.
I only have 16 gb of space and uses iOS5 for now... To have some apps requiring iOS6 and above to work does seem to force me to upgrade...
You can just choose not to install it of course but Apple has already taken the 3 gigs of valuable space used for there forced download ( not to mention any bandwidth costs associated that may cost you additional monies ).
Wow. They do edit commentary here - heavily.
VP
Why don't you remove the download as I and others did? It's been two weeks since I removed it and it hasn't reloaded.
No apposing views allowed. Funny how Apple itself turned out to be the George Orwellian vision that Apple warned us all against so long ago. I'm sure half of what written gets deleted from this site.
Very sad indeed.
That's not quite true. I had IOS 6.0.3 on my iPad and decided to do a wipe to clean it up. When I did the initial setup, it automatically started downloading IOS 7. I did not tell it to do that. I shut it down and wiped it again to see what it would do and it started automatically downloading IOS 7 again. I didn't care for that as it should always ask first.
gggggggggggg,
Thank you very much for this splendid method. Just freed up 1.16 GB from my iPod in less than a minute.
The first restart did the trick already.
I very much dislike Apple's behaviour at this point. However I feel relieved that I'm not the only one feeling this way. Hopefully this helps convincing Apple to act otherwise.
CdB
Apple is doing this again with the new iOS 8, but these methods still work, at least on a 4S. I use iOS 6, and I want to keep iOS 6.
If you have a partial DL, you can fill up the phone with padding (i used big mp4 videos) and reboot a few times.
IPad 2, i was able to delete iOS 8.0 Which automatically downloaded when plugged into power and Wifi connected. But i didnt click Install.
no need for backup on a computer.
iPad - Settings, Genral, Usage, select iOS 8.0 (2.5GB), and then Delete Update. It was succesful, and now my Available Storage is back to 6.5 GB
I think that only works if you installed the previous iOS 7 update. iOS 6 doesn't even show the installer under Usage.
Oh, ok, my ipad2 already had ios 7 since i bought it early this year
Apple Forced iOS7 update on my iPad2 !
