If you are constantly facing low iPhone storage issues and thinking of buying a new iPhone
then I would say, don’t do that.
Instead, watch this video until the end.
Because there are certainly some better ways to free iPhone storage.
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Rahul here from TechReviewPro, and welcome back to the channel.
Today, we are going to learn 10 easy ways to Free Up Lots of Storage Space on an iPhone.
So without any further delay, let’s get started!
1. Uninstall Unused Apps
The most effective thing you can do to
free up storage space on your iPhone is simply uninstall apps that you are not using anymore.
Alternatively, you can offload the app to reinstall it later without losing any data,
more on that later.
So make sure you watch this video until the end.
2. Save Content On The Cloud
Another effective way of freeing up storage space on your iPhone is
instead of saving your photos, videos and documents on your device,
simply use a cloud storage service such as iCloud, OneDrive or Google Drive,
and upload your files to the cloud.
3. Delete Old Photos and Videos
Another simple hack to free iPhone storage is
to delete old photos and videos that you don’t need anymore.
And this will save a lot of space on your iPhone.
4. Disable My Photo Stream
Did you know? iOS has a nifty feature called “My Photo Stream”,
which shows you all the photos and videos
that you have taken on your iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices.
If you head over to Settings and scroll down a bit until you see Photos, and then tap on that,
it’ll open Photos Settings.
Here, you’ll find the option to enable or disable Photo Stream.
If your Photo Stream is enabled on your iPhone, this will automatically make photos from
other devices available on your iPhone.
Even though it doesn't show you the photo in full-resolution version,
the photos still take up space in your storage.
So, it is best to disable it when you are running low on storage space.
5. Clear Safari Browser Cache
If you use Safari to browse the web on your iPhone
then the browser must have built a lot of cache data.
This eats up your storage space on your iPhone without you knowing. So, it's best to clear it on a regular interval.
To get started, head over to the “Settings” menu, and scroll down to Safari.
Tap on that and this will take you to the Safari Settings.
Here, you just need to scroll down and tap on the “Clear History and Website Data” option
and then confirm it, and this will clear the cache data of the Safari browser on your iPhone.
6. Use “Optimize iPhone Storage” Feature
I don't know whether you know this or not,
but iOS offers you an easy way of optimizing your photos and videos that are saved on your iPhone.
To enable it, simply go to “Settings”, then scroll down until you see Photos.
Once you find that, simply tap on that to open Photos settings.
And here, you simply need to tap on the “Optimize iPhone Storage” option to enable it.
The Optimize iPhone Storage will simply optimise your iPhone storage
and free up space on your iPhone.
And it does so by saving the lower-resolution versions
of your photos and videos on the device,
while the original full-resolution versions are stored on iCloud.
7.Delete old e-books and music stored on your device
When you download or purchase music
or e-books on your iPhone, this takes up space on your iPhone.
If you are frequently using them, no problem, but
what about old files that you are no longer using?
You can simply delete such old e-books and music files that you no longer read or listen to.
And by doing so, you can recover a lot of storage space that would be otherwise lost
due to piling up old content.
8. Use iPhone’s In-built Storage Tool
I’m not sure whether you know this or not,
but your iPhone has a handy feature to analyse which apps
or files are using how much storage space on your iPhone.
To access it, simply go to “Settings”, then tap on “General”,
and it’ll take you to the General Settings.
Here, tap on “iPhone Storage”.
Now, it’ll show you a visual with the storage usage trends, depicting how much space
apps and files are taking.
You can use this iPhone feature to see the storage use pattern of your apps and files,
and then you can decide what needs to be deleted or moved to the cloud.
9. Delete Old Messages
If you are using iMessage for conversation for at least a couple of weeks,
then the Old messages must have taken up a lot of space
on your iPhone.
The text messages are fine because they only consume a few kilobytes, but what about the
attachment files?
Attachments may take up several hundred Megabytes.
So if those attachments are not so important for you,
you may delete them as well to free up storage space on your iPhone.
You can use the same iPhone Storage Tool to delete old messages and their attachments.
You simply need to slide left to each attachment and tap the
delete option.
You may also tap the Edit button and select multiple files to delete at once.
10. Use the “Offload App” feature
Last but not least, in fact, this is my personal favourite option
to instantly free up a lot of space on my iPhone within a few seconds.
If you are using iOS 11 or later, your iPhone has a nifty feature named “Offload App”
which basically uninstalls unused apps while retaining any
documents and data associated with them.
When you offload an app,
you can reinstall the app later and continue from where you left OFF.
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