When you begin running short on space on your iPhone, you can start offloading photos, deleting apps and videos to free up space or you can extend your storage. You can also try to fool your iPhone into freeing up some space.
Because no one likes to be made delete apps or deal with photo storage, let’s look at a couple of ways you can recover some space on your iPhone without taking such extreme measures.
1. STOP SAVING TEXTS FOREVER
By default, your iPhone saves all of the text messages you receive and send forever. This is helpful if you need to look up a 12-month-old conversation; not so useful if you need that storage space back. To stop your iPhone from saving texts forever, open up the Settings app and tap Messages. Scroll down till you find Message History and tap Keep Messages. Transfer Forever to 30 Days or 1 Year. A pop-up will request you if you want to delete earlier messages; tap Delete to proceed.
2. DO NOT DOUBLE-SAVE PHOTOS
If you utilize your iPhone’s HDR mode or Instagram a lot, you have probably noticed that your phone automatically stores two photos: the HDR version and the normal version (or, in the case of Instagram, cropped, the filtered Instagram version and the normal version).
To stop double-saving HDR photos, go to the Settings app and tap to Photos & Camera. Scroll down to the bottom and untap the toggle next to Keep Normal Photo. If you have an iPhone 7 Plus, you will see a similar toggle for Portrait mode that you can also disable.
For stopping double-saving Instagram photos, go the Instagram app, click your profile tab and then click the Settings (gear) icon in the upper right corner. Under Settings, untick the switch next to Save Original Photos.
3. STOP THE PHOTO STREAM
The items in your Photo Stream take up space – though not as much as original photos because they are uploaded to your device at a “device-optimized resolution,” according to Apple. You probably do not need these photos, since they are probably just copies of photos that are already on your device.
For turning Photo Stream off, open the Settings app and go to Photos & Camera and toggle off Upload to My Photo Stream. The items in your Photo Stream will be deleted from your iPhone, but they’ll remain on any other devices (such as your computer or iPad) for which you have Photo Stream turned on. They will also remain on your iCloud account for thirty days from the date they were uploaded.
4. CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE
If you use Safari very frequently, your iPhone may be storing data and web history that you don’t need. To clear Safari’s browser cache, open up the Settings app and click Safari. Scroll down and tap Clear History and Website Data.
If you work with Chrome instead of Safari, open up the Chrome app and click the triple-dot button in the top right. Next, click History and at the bottom of the screen click Clear Browsing Data.
5. DELETE DOWNLOADED MUSIC
Those albums and playlists you downloaded to listen to on the subway can start to add up. If you use Apple Music, it is easy to find your downloaded songs to delete them. Go to Settings then tap General, afterward click on Storage & iCloud Usage then on Manage Storage and find Apple Music on the list. You can scroll to delete individual songs, or you can tap on All Songs at the top to delete all.
That makes it a little bit harder to track down your downloads. You’ll need to open the app, click Your Library and then choose to view by Playlist or Album. Scroll down to reveal the Filter option and add the Downloads filter, which shows only the playlists or albums you have downloaded. Then open any playlists or albums listed and click to turn off the toggle switch for Downloaded.
6. REMOVE DOWNLOADED PODCASTS
Same as music, you might also have a sheer number of podcasts downloaded to your iPhone. Unlike music, it is doubtful you will return to a podcast for repeated listening. If you use the stock Podcasts app, it is easy to remove your downloads. Head back to Settings then to General, afterward click to Storage & iCloud Usage, finally tap to band click Podcasts. There is no way to delete all at once, so you will need to go down the list, swiping to remove the podcasts for each show.
7. REMOVE YOUR READING LIST
Safari’s offline reading list can take up additional space saving web pages for you to read when you have not got an internet connection. To clear Safari’s offline reading list, open up the Settings app and go to General, tap to Storage & iCloud Usage. Under Storage, click to Manage Storage, then go to Safari. Swipe left over the words Offline Reading List and click Delete to clear the cache. Doing this won’t remove individual items from your reading list: For doing that, go to the Safari app, then to your Reading List and swipe leftover pages you want to delete.
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