How to free up space on your iPhone
Is the storage full on your iOS device? Here’s how to figure out what’s taking up the most space on your iPhone and iPad so you can decide what to delete.
You might not think of how much space you have left on your iOS device until you hit a wall when you try to update your OS or download new apps. Suddenly everything on your phone seems precious and you’re looking up how much it would cost to buy a phone with more memory.
Before you do that, we have some advice on the best way to move files you want to keep in order to free up space, and how can you make smart decisions about what to keep and what to delete.
Follow these few simple steps, and you’ll be on your way to a less overloaded, more organized iPhone or iPad.
How to Check Available Storage on Your iPhone
This is the first and foremost step you should follow if you are looking to save storage space on your iPhone. Determining what data is eating the most space and how much storage remains is crucial to optimizing your iPhone storage. Here’s how:
- Go to the General in the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Locate and tap the iPhone Storage option.
- Now wait while your iPhone calculates the available storage.
How to Free Up Storage Space on iPhone
Managing your iPhone storage is a big task regardless of whether it is a normal or pro model, as nowadays, it is easy to accumulate many photos, files, and apps that easily fill up your iPhone storage. And if you have encountered a “There is not enough available storage” pop-up message like me, here are some tips to free up space on your iPhone:
- Delete or Offload Unused App
On the device storage, you can see the complete list of all the apps installed on your iPhone. While you use many apps regularly, there may be certain apps that you have not used for a long time or there are apps that you use rarely. In that case, you can completely delete those apps or offload them from your iPhone.
While deleting the app will wipe all its settings from your iPhone, offloading an app will only remove the app from your device without deleting its settings, like when you have to free up space to install an iOS update, Apple lets you offload them. The offloaded apps will remain on your home screen, but you will need to re-download them to use them.
- Upload Photos and Videos to a Cloud Storage
In today’s world, most of us use our iPhones to capture breathtaking photos and videos to cherish those moments later. And as a result of this, the Photos app ends up using much of the iPhone’s storage. So, removing those large photos and videos is the ideal solution to free up space on your iPhone, but before deleting them from your iPhone, it is important to upload them to cloud storage so you don’t lose access to them.
- Delete Unnecessary Photos and Large Video Files
Once you upload all your important photos and videos to the cloud storage, you can delete them from your iPhone to save storage.
- Clear Browser’s Cache
Another pile of junk that you should regularly wipe off your iPhone is the browser cache. And this may feel insignificant; all these temporary internet files eat up a lot of storage on your iPhone. But before you clear your browser’s cache, remember that you will be logged out of every website you are signed into, and all your cookies will be deleted.
- Delete Unwanted Message Conversations
Let’s be honest, we often forget about unnecessary texts or promotional messages in the Messages app and leave them unchecked, only to let them pile up as junk eating the iPhone’s storage space. So, if you are not holding onto older conversations for sentimental or legal reasons, I would highly suggest getting rid of those messages, and you will free up a lot of space on your iPhone.
