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Is Your iPhone Storage Full? These 5 Easy Tips Can Help you Fix It!
1. Clear out old photos and videos
For a good majority of folks, photos are the number one culprit when it comes to storage issues on iPhone and iPad. We carry photos over from one iPhone to another and so on. Over time, our Camera Rolls have grown to a massive size and before we know it, we’re out of space.
That’s before we’ve even talked about videos. As iPhone cameras get better and better, the amount of space required to store high-quality video becomes even more demanding. This is especially the case if you’re using features like slow motion, which record at up to 240 frames per second on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Ouch.
Luckily, you have several options.
Use iCloud Photo Library
By enabling iCloud Photo Library on your iPhone or iPad, you can instantly free up some much-needed space on your iPhone or iPad. Just keep in mind that for this to work, there are two caveats:
You must have enough iCloud storage space (for most of us, this means you have to purchase some)
Photos that are streamed can’t be viewed offline
In reference to point number two, you can view some photos offline. iCloud Photo Library will typically store recent photos and those that you access frequently in physical storage.
2. Delete unused apps
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This seems like an obvious storage tip but it’s something that often gets overlooked. Make a regular practice of going through all the folders and Home screens of your iPhone or iPad and purging apps you don’t find yourself using. Remember, anything you download (paid or free) can be re-downloaded whenever you’d like since all your purchases are automatically tied to your Apple ID.
If you aren’t using it and you don’t have app data inside that that you absolutely need, delete it.
A special note about deleting games: many games rely on data stored locally inside an app. Before deleting any games, make sure you can either back it up to an account you create with the game developer or with iCloud.
3. Uninstall and reinstall storage hungry apps
Over time, some apps can become bloated. This happens because they store data locally or cache things for faster performance. A huge example of this is the Facebook app. I’ve seen this app alone take up gigs and gigs of storage space on some people’s iPhones and iPads. Make a regular practice of checking your storage usage and see what apps are the biggest offenders. Uninstalling and reinstalling those apps will usually get rid of all the cached data, in turn freeing up storage space.
There’s an easy way to check what apps are taking up the most storage on your iPhone or iPad. Just follow these steps:
Tap on the Settings app.
Select General.
Select Storage & iCloud Usage.
Under the Storage section, tap on Manage Storage — don’t confuse this section with the iCloud section.
You’ll see an overview of how much storage each app is taking up. Tapping into any one of them will get you a delete option, or you can delete them off your Home screen like you’d normally delete apps.
Storage tips: How to free up space on your iPhone or iPad
Storage tips: How to free up space on your iPhone or iPad
After you delete the storage hungry apps in question, you can re-install them via the App Store like you normally would.
4. Delete old message threads
iMessage and regular text message threads can take up incredible amounts of space. If you never clear them out and they’ve come over from iPhone to iPhone over the years, you may have gigs of space ready for the taking. Keep in mind that the messages we send contain not only text but pictures and video as well.
Save only what you have to and get rid of the rest. If you haven’t looked at a thread in years, you probably don’t need it.
5. Keep iTunes music and video to a minimum
Music and video files take up a ton of space. If you’re looking to free up space quickly, this is the number one way to do it. If you purchased it from iTunes, you can always re-download it again later, thanks to iTunes in the Cloud.
iTunes in the Cloud lets you delete music and movies and re-download them on-demand at a later date — this is the same concept as what you can do with apps you’ve previously purchased. Mostly everything you’ve purchased directly from iTunes is fair game. I say mostly because some content has license restrictions. Even so, I’ve rarely run into instances where I couldn’t re-download a movie or song, as long as it was purchased directly from iTunes.
Delete what you aren’t using right now, download it again later when you need it.
If all else fails
You can buy an external storage files to save your photos and videos. Amazon offers a good number of them like this one for under $25 USD and provides 128 GB of storage.
Your storage tips?
If you’ve suffered from space constraints on your iPhone or iPad, how did you deal with the situation? Be sure to let us know your top storage tips in the comments!