How To Delete Garageband From Ipad

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If you’re not a regular user of Apple’s star Digital audio workstation – GarageBand, or if you have simply moved your audio editing headquarters to another software want some free space, you might be looking for ways to get delete/uninstall GarageBand from your Mac, whatever the reason is, we are here to help.

In order to empty up some precious memory space, while you can simply get rid of the app by dragging and dropping it to your trash bin, there might be a number of separate folders with executable and associated resources for the app.

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If these are small files it will hardly make a difference but these could also be a bundle of large useless files that take up space in your system. If you really wish to get rid of GarageBand, you must delete these extra folders too, in this article we shall discuss how you can uninstall GarageBand and get rid of its associated resources:

Before Uninstalling

Before uninstalling the app, you have to make sure that it is not currently running in your system. To do that, log in your laptop with an administrator account and shut down GarageBand if it is running:

  1. Look for the GarageBand icon in the dock.
  2. Right-click over the icon.
  3. Tap on QUIT, done.

Further, you can go to the Applications folder, select Utilities and access the Activity Monitor from there to close any background process related to GarageBand.

Uninstalling GarageBand – The Process

Method 1-

  • Open Finder.
  • Select Applications from the window on the left side
  • Find GarageBand and then drag it to the Trash icon at the bottom of the screen
  • Alternatively, you can right-click on the GarageBand icon and tap on ‘Move to Trash’
  • Empty the trash folder (right-click on its icon and select ‘Empty Trash’ option)

Method 2-

  • Open Launchpad
  • Type and search for GarageBand in the search bar.
  • Click and hold on the GarageBand icon, a small cross should appear at the top left of the icon
  • Tap on that X and select Delete on the window that pops up

How to Delete accompanying files:

While deleting the main app on Mac takes care of major part, there may be some accompanying files that may be leftover even from applications like GarageBand. Most of these will be found in folders named Library. Additionally, some files like login items or kernel extensions may be scattered around the system. To get rid of these :

  • Open the Finder.
  • Select Go from the Menu bar and click on the ‘Go to folder’ option.
  • Type in /Library/ and hit ENTER.

Now open each of the following folders and search for GarageBand files. For each GarageBand file, right-click on the file and ‘Move to trash:

/Library

/Library/Caches

/Library/Preferences

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/Library/Application Support

/Library/LaunchAgents

/Library/LaunchDaemons

/Library/PreferencePanes

/Library/StartupItems

Deleting these extra files can be a long and tedious procedure, and they don’t do your system any harm if you let them be, so you can skip this procedure if you don’t want to clear up all space possible. Only for desperate times!

How to delete GarageBand from iPhone and iPad:

  • Locate the GarageBand app on your device.
  • Tap and hold the GarageBand icon until a small cross appears at the top left of the icon.
  • Now tap on the X.
  • A confirmation window will pop up. Select Delete and the app will be uninstalled from your iPhone/ iPad!

Hope this helped, for any doubts and queries, hit us in the comment section or send us an email!

GarageBand User Guide for iPad

You can upload your GarageBand songs to iCloud Drive and access them from another app or other devices. You can open your songs directly from iCloud Drive in the sidebar in the My Songs browser, or download them to your iPad.

When you close a song or close GarageBand, the song is updated with your latest changes in iCloud. If changes made on multiple devices are out of sync, a copy of the song with the newest changes is saved to the same location as the original in iCloud Drive.

Before you can use iCloud Drive with GarageBand, you must set up iCloud in the Settings app on your iPad. More information is available online at the iCloud Support website.

Turn on iCloud for GarageBand

You turn on iCloud for GarageBand in the Settings app on your iPad.

  1. Close GarageBand.

  2. On the Home screen, tap Settings, then tap your name at the top of Settings.

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  3. Tap iCloud, then tap the switch next to GarageBand in the list of iCloud apps.

    You might have to scroll down to see the GarageBand icon.

Upload a song to iCloud Drive

  1. In the My Songs browser, tap Select.

  2. Tap the song you want to upload, then tap Move.

  3. Locate where you want to save your song on iCloud Drive, then tap Copy.

Copy a song in iCloud Drive to your iPad

  1. In the My Songs browser, tap iCloud Drive in the sidebar and locate the song you want to copy.

  2. Tap Select, tap the song you want to copy, then tap Move.

  3. Locate where you want to save your song on your iPad and tap Copy.

Open a song in iCloud Drive

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Songs available to download from iCloud Drive appear with an iCloud download badge .

  • In the My Songs browser, tap iCloud Drive in the sidebar, then locate and tap the GarageBand song you want to open.

The song is downloaded. If there is a newer version in iCloud, the newer version is downloaded to your iPad. If the version on your iPad is newer, that version is uploaded to iCloud.

Create a song in iCloud Drive

  1. In the My Songs browser, tap iCloud Drive in the sidebar, locate and tap the GarageBand for iOS folder, then do one of the following:

    • Tap the Add Song button at the top-right of the screen.

    • Tap Create Document in the My Songs browser.

    The Sound browser opens, where you can choose a Touch Instrument to use in the song. When you close the song, the latest changes are saved to the original location in iCloud Drive.

Delete a song in iCloud Drive

When you delete a song in iCloud Drive, the song is deleted on all your devices.

  1. In the My Songs browser, tap iCloud Drive in the sidebar, then locate the song you want to delete.

  2. Tap Select, tap the song you want to delete, then tap Delete.

If you turn off iCloud for GarageBand, your songs stored in iCloud Drive will be deleted from your iPad, but will remain stored in iCloud Drive. If you want to turn off iCloud and keep your songs on your iPad, you need to duplicate the songs you want to keep before you turn off iCloud.