iOS 10 is coming tomorrow! How to prepare iPhone, iPad for update

Tomorrow
September 13,around 7 p.m.if Apple's habits
are respected,iOS 10will be put to
available to all.

After more than 3 months of waiting, it will finally be possible to take advantage of
new features of this latest version of Apple's mobile operating system,
and in view of the added, retouched and simplified functions, the change
should delight more than one!

Those in a hurry can eveninstall it
(legally) today, as we saw yesterday in this article.

Whatever happens, you'll have to be ready at the right time with an iPhone in full swing.
shape.To be sure that everything goes well, it is better to take your
precautions, here's how to prepare for the arrival of iOS 10

Make room on the machine

During wireless updates (via WiFi and therefore without iTunes), you must have
enough space available on the machine to be able to download the
files of the new OS. Since iOS 9, Apple hasoptimized the system for
limit the size of files to recover, even if it is always
of several GB. Better, this year, the system even offers to remove apps
for us and to put it back afterwards. But a little manual message can't
do harm, with everything that accumulates!

For 16 GB iPhones in particular, it is therefore better to do a little
cleaning in its applications, in its data and overall, finding a
machine with as few unnecessary files as possible in order to recover some
precious MB, see GB. In addition, it will save time during backups
later!

For this, don’t miss this tutorial:Detect and
clean the memory occupied unnecessarily on your iPhone, iPad

The backup

In general, iOS updates are very simple to install, whether
either wirelessly or via iTunes, and do not pose any particular problems.
However, no one is safe from a little glitch, which is why you should always
remember to back up the device before installing a new iOS.

To save, two solutions:

iTunes

Start by plugging the iPhone, iPad, or iPod into your computer, then
Launch iTunes if the app doesn't launch automatically.

In the content selection tab at the top left of the window
iTunes, click the iPhone icon, then click the button
Back up now. All that remains then is to wait for the
backup procedure is carried out.

iCloud

Anyone with an Apple account also gets 5GB of storage
on iCloud which can, for example, be used to carefully store the
backups of our devices.

To activate these iCloud backups, nothing could be simpler. It is enough to
go to theSettingsof the device and then go to the
sectioniCloud. Click onBackupand activate
the switchiCloud Backupif you haven't already. He doesn't
All that remains then is to click onBack up now.

Either way, once the backup is done, you can
launch yourself into the update with peace of mind. From now on and whatever happens, he
will always be possible to go back and find all your
data. Phew.

With each major update, the question is whether your machine will be
compatible. So here is the answer in pictures:

Are released compared to iOS 9, iPhone 4s, iPad 2, 3, iPad mini
1 and the iPod 5th generation.

The complete list of Apple devices
compatible with iOS 10:

iPhone: 5, 5c, 5s, SE, 6, 6 Plus, 6s and 6s Plus
iPad: iPad 4, iPad mini 2, 3 and 4, iPad Air and Air
2, iPad Pro 9.7 and 12.9 inches
iPod: iPod touch 6th generation

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