12 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Iphone

You can follow the recommendations on your phone or continue to the next step. [1] X Research source

This will enable your photos to save in full quality on iCloud as well as a lower-resolution version on your phone. You can download the full-quality photos from iCloud as often as you’d like.

If you run out of space in your cloud storage, delete old backups. Every time you backup your phone to the cloud, it takes a lot of storage space. If you see you’re almost out of cloud storage and you don’t know what’s using it, go through and delete old backups of your device that you don’t need anymore. To use iCloud with your photos and videos, go to Settings > Photos and tap the switch next to “iCloud Photos” to enable it (turn it green). [2] X Research source

If you’d like to see a list of your apps and when you last used them, go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage. You’ll be able to see your apps and when you last used them.

If the app has a significant amount of data stored on your iPhone, your phone will ask if you want to keep the app’s data here as well.

If there are apps that you don’t use often but don’t want to uninstall completely, you can offload it instead.

You’ll want to offload apps that you don’t use frequently but you don’t want to uninstall. These apps are temporarily removed from your iPhone, but you still have the documents and data associated with them.

You can also tell the App Store to automatically offload apps. To do this, go to Settings > App Store and tap the switch next to “Offload Unused Apps” to turn it on.

Tap “Albums” in the bottom right of your screen. Select the “Camera Roll” option. Tap “Select” in the top right corner of your screen. Tap each picture/video that you want to delete. You’ll notice that social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat tend to save duplicates of existing photos on your phone. Deleting these will clear up a fair amount of space without actually detracting from your iPhone’s library.

Tap “Albums” in the top left corner. Tap the “Recently Deleted” folder. Tap “Select” in the top right corner. Tap “Delete All” in the lower left corner. Tap “Delete [X number of] Items”.

Open the Apple Music app. Find a song you would like to delete. Tap and hold the song’s name. Tap the “Remove Download” button.

Remember to repeat this process for downloaded Podcasts if you have any. If you’re done listening to an episode, remember to delete it! If you don’t use the iOS default app, Apple Music, you can also remove downloaded songs using other music services like Spotify and YouTube Music. Alternatively, you can delete your music from Settings > General > iPhone Storage > Music and swipe left on any downloaded media to delete it. [4] X Research source

Tap the “Edit” option in the top left corner of your screen. Tap each conversation you wish to delete. Tap “Delete” in the bottom right corner of your screen.

Clear the calls log or single items from it. Open your calls log. Your calls log can be found under the Recents tab. Ensure you have attended to all the calls you’ll need to attend to from the calls log, as once these items are deleted, they can’t be restored from their grave. Peruse through the list. You can delete single items from it. Place your finger mid-center of the item’s line and swipe to the left. You’ll open a “Delete” button. Tap the Delete button. If you have it set up to give you a secondary warning, tap “Delete”. Red contact named lines indicate that you’ve missed these calls. Clear the entire list in one shot for maximum savings of space. Tap the “Edit” button on the screen: this can be found near the top of the screen. Tap the “Clear all” button.

Tap the “Voicemail” tab in the bottom right corner of your screen. Tap the “Edit” option in the top right corner. Tap each voicemail you wish to delete. Tap “Delete” in the bottom right corner.

If you have Safari open while doing this, be sure to close and re-open the app for optimal performance.

Open your Settings app and select “Notifications”. Find the app that is no longer interesting to you and tap the name of it. Look for the “Show in Notification Center” slider bar that should be greenish in color. If it’s another color (such as blue), you can safely assume it is turned on (as older iOS versions had a difference in color for this type of setting). Slide this slider to the left until the slider doesn’t produce a color on the slider bar. Check the settings for this app to ensure it is showing you the notifications correctly. In iOS 9 and below, there were two types of alerts that could be displayed when notifications came in when the device was unlocked: Banner Style and Alert Style. “Alert” would flash in from the top and flash back out while “Banner” would display a box at the center of the screen. However, in iOS 10, “Alerts” now can flash in/flash out but there is a way for the alerts to come in static and stay put until you clear them each manually. Make the adjustments; this can be found directly under the line called “Show on Lock Screen”. However, it can also be turned completely off (for when notifications come in when the device is unlocked).

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