BY: Gordon Kinlaw
Revision to 9.3 is Out
Most of you haven’t downloaded 9.3 yet and now iOS 9.3.1 is out to fix a small bug. Go ahead and download it because it’s taking up 1 gig of storage on your phone. I wish there was an option to keep it from waiting on your phone. As usual, back up your phone on iCloud or iTunes.
Notes in 9.3
Password protection of notes in 9.3 bears a lot more explanation after seeing it cause Apple didn’t make it easy.
First, you must go to Settings/Messages and turn passwords on. Click on “Password”. then click on ?Change Password”. Add your password and a hint. If you want to use your fingerprint, turn on “Touch ID”.
Go to Notes and you will see that there are folders. If you sync your notes to an email account, you will see that listed at the top. You can’t password protect these notes. Notes that are “On My Phone” can be protected. If you have notes that need to be protected, copy the text to a new note in the protected area.
Next, set up a new note in “On My Phone” area and when you are ready to protect it, click on the action menu button at the top right corner of the note. Scroll to the right and find the lock icon and turn on passwords for this note.
One more step!! You have assigned a password to the note and the note is still visible. At the top of the note you just protected, there is a “lock” icon that shows an unlock state. Click on the lock icon to hide the note from view.
Text Messages and Space
Your text messages, and more importantly your text images and videos, are taking up a LOT of space. Go to Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage/Manage Storage. As soon as the list populates, you will see that messages is high on the list of storage hogs. You may have over 1 gig of storage used by Messages. You can improve on this problem by changing the message retention limit from “Never” to some time period.
Before you change the limit, go to messages and scroll all the way down to see how many years of messages are on your phone. If you need to save some text, do screen shot saves to your Camera Roll and print them out or send to your cloud storage.
To change the storage limit, go to Settings/Messages/Keep Messages. If you can change “Never” to “30 Days” you will save a lot of room. I now have nearly 900Mbytes in Messages and my Messages have a lot of entries from 2015. There are only 3 choices of limits: 30 Days, 1 Year and Never. Remember that every photo and video that were sent to you in text are stored in “other” and are in addition to your camera roll.
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