I am a absolute beginner not just using UE4 but to the entire digital media scene and want to practice creating my own IOS game app i have been looking at all the youtube tutorials and feel like i am missing something ? currently im just looking at designing a basic 2d top down level and a character do i need to download sample content to work with or something ? any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hey pay2play
If you run up the engine and go to the new project menu - there is probably a template which will atleast get you up and running with the starter content and third person character.
I think there is actually a top down one, if not, just use the third person one and modify the camera position.
I would provide menu screenshots but I am currently located about 2 hours from my game dev machine 
You can either start from scratch (With a blank project) or choose one of the template like Leam suggested -> for 2d I would recommend you to choose the paper 2d (sidescroller) template 
Thanks guy for the quick replies ill give it a go : )