10 Ways to Free Memory When Your iPhone Storage is Full and each year a new iPhone launches and we hope that Apple replaces the 16 GB version with the 32 GB version as the base version. but that hasn’t occurred yet, which means buyers on a budget have to make do with the 16 GB model, which does no longer make logic in an age of 4K videos and extensive apps & games. If you are an iPhone owner dealing with low storage problems on your device.
[ad type=”banner”]1. Delete Photo Stream photos
Photo Stream on iOS automatically uploads new photos and sends them across all your iCloud account connected devices which results in your iPhone storing pictures from your other devices. It isn’t necessary.
There’s a way to delete all Photo Stream photos from the iPhone.
All we need to do is disable “My Photo Stream” in Settings->Photos & Camera. When we turn it off, we will get the prompt saying that it will delete all Photo Stream photos, press “Delete“.
2. Disable duplicate photos in HDR
When we take HDR photos in an iPhone, it saves up the HDR photo as well as a normal picture, which results in duplicate photos. While this will be available on an older iPhone, considering they did not have such powerful cameras and their HDR performance was patchy. However, on an iPhone 6s, we can expect the HDR photos to be suitable, so there’s no need to keep the normal photo. iOS includes an option to disable this setting.
To do this, go to General->Photos & Camera and scroll down and disable “Keep Normal Photo”.
3. Turn Off automatic downloads
The automatic downloads feature on iOS is pretty accessible, as it downloads all your new iTunes purchases made from other devices to your iPhone. However, it also takes up a variety of storage space. So, if you don’t want your purchases on multiple Apple devices, you can turn off the feature. You can do by going to Settings->iTunes & App Stores and disabling auto downloads for Music, Apps, Books & Audiobooks and updates.
4. Backup your photos to a cloud storage
If you plan on deleting your photos and videos to free up storage on your iPhone, it should be a good way to backup your media in a cloud storage. This will ensure that you don’t lose your photos and you even free up storage. You can either use iOS’ built-in iCloud integration or use third party services like Dropbox. You can turn on iCloud sync in Settings->Photos & Camera->iCloud Photo Library.
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5. Delete Photos and Videos the right way
When you would have deleted photos & videos on your iPhone to free up storage, only to find out that there’s no change in the free memory. That’s because when you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS moves them over to the “Recently Deleted” album for a period of 30 days.
So, if we need to free up storage immediately by deleting some videos and pictures, first you’ll have to delete them from the Camera Roll and then , go to “Albums” and delete them once again in the “Recently Deleted” album. You can either permanently delete or recover photos & videos from this album.
6. Enable Message Expiration and Delete Older Messages
Messages don’t take up much storage space, the attachments do and therefore, you can delete your older messages and attachments to free up some space on your iPhone. In addition, you can enable message expiration, which deletes your message history after a specific period of time. To enable it, go to Settings->Messages and scroll down to find the “Keep Messages” option set to forever. You can then change it to 30 days or a year. Additionally, ensure to delete your voicemails to free up even more storage.
7. Clear Browser cache
The Reading list on Safari saves up webpages for offline reading and it does take up storage space. So, another way to clear storage on an iPhone would be clear browser cache. To clear cache on Safari, go to Settings->Safari and press the “Clear History and Website Data” option. If you are using Chrome on the iPhone, go to Chrome Settings->Privacy and clear cache, history and cookies or you could do it all with the “Clear All” option.
8. Capture video at 1080p
Capturing in 4K does satisfy the inner geek in us but it also takes up huge amounts of storage space. For instance, a 20-second 1080p video recorded on the iPhone 6s is 40 MB in size while a 20-second 4K video is 126 MB. So, that’s a attractive notable difference and if you ask us, 1080p is still the most commonly used standard for videos. To toggle between video resolutions, go to Settings->Photos & Camera->Record video and select 1080p at 30 fps or 60 fps.
9. Use iTunes Match
If you need to free some storage on your iPhone, you may want to consider moving your music collection to the cloud. The $24.99/year subscription stores all your music to iCloud, even the music that you haven’t got from iTunes or Apple Music. You can then access all your music across your iPhone, Mac or PC. If there’s a song you want to have offline, you can easily download them from iTunes.
[ad type=”banner”]10. Delete YouTube offline videos
The new YouTube download feature is pretty cool but chances are, you download videos and forget about to delete them, since they are not able to visible in iTunes or Photos. These videos do take up your iPhone’s storage, so you should be removing them. To do it, go to the YouTube app and go to the fourth tab, that is “Account”. Then, tap “Saved Videos” and hit the three-dot buttons beside the videos you want to remove and select “Remove from Offline”.
