Using old iPhone 5 as iPod

[AronDraws]

Hi!

So I was originally going to try to trade in my old iPhone 5 when they were offering $200 towards the purchase of an SE with it, but when they cut that down to $100 I said screw it, and decided to keep it and use it as an iPod (I have an iPod video - hardware errors, dead battery, an original iPod touch (which is pretty much dead, a 3rd generation touch with an issue that causes songs to play halfway and then cut to next song, and a shuffle which holds noooooothing).

I figure using it as an iPod would be fine. When delivery day came and I got my SE, I backed up old 5, transferred everything and sim to SE and got that going no problem.

I went through on the 5 and deleted most the apps, and junk so I would have room for music-- but when I charged it up and turned it on at work to try to buy some music, it connected to wifi and re-installed pretty much everything I had uninstalled.

I love being able to buy and download music from the speedy wifi at work but is there a setting or something I can use to keep it from re-installing apps? I'd hate to have to wipe the whole thing and start from scratch since I'd like a few games on there but I'll do what I need

Thank you kindly!

 

[dave006]

Blame iTunes, the App Store, and iCloud. Since you only erased items from the iPhone 5 and did not set it up as a new device, it stayed synced to iCloud, iTunes, and even the App Store if you had used it to sync your iPhone 5.

You should log out of iCloud on the iPhone 5. Update your Settings > iTunes & App store settings to not "Automatically Download Apps" or other things that you don't want to have sent to your iPhone 5 every time it is connected to Wi-Fi before deleting the apps from the old iPhone 5.

Dave

 

[AronDraws]

Blame iTunes, the App Store, and iCloud. Since you only erased items from the iPhone 5 and did not set it up as a new device, it stayed synced to iCloud, iTunes, and even the App Store if you had used it to sync your iPhone 5.

You should log out of iCloud on the iPhone 5. Update your Settings > iTunes & App store settings to not "Automatically Download Apps" or other things that you don't want to have sent to your iPhone 5 every time it is connected to Wi-Fi before deleting the apps from the old iPhone 5.

Dave

Awesome thanks!

 

[got556]

I would love to find a slate iP5 for cheap. I got a 4 for free a while back and my son was using that as an iPod. It was getting a bit long in the tooth, especially jailbroken on 7.1.2 so I found a lady selling a mint gold 5S....paid $60 for it with a Spigen case . So now my son has a 5S he uses as a Touch and I downgraded the 4 to 6.1.2 and will be using it as an iPod for my car.