Reduce your iPhone space in just a simple way
Wow! Apple’s 2015 iPhone lineup has more available storage space than ever before. Then why Apple lovers still opt for 16GB when buying their iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus? There’s certainly nothing wrong with that, but having only 16GB of onboard storage can quickly become an issue on Smartphones that don’t have expandable memory. But here is some simple trick that will free up a surprising amount of space in your iPhone.
This simple trick can give you a surprise!
1. Check what you’re working with
The first step to freeing up space is to see exactly what is hogging up storage. You will having to go into Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage. You will see the amount of space you have available and how much space is being used up. After taking time to load, a list of your apps will pop up in the order in which they take up the most GBs.
The numbers seen when in Manage Storage includes how much space the app uses itself and how much data is inside. While some apps appear to take up less storage than others, once you tap on the app icon, you will be able to see the full app size.
2. Store Your Photos Elsewhere
Yeah, we love having all our selfles on our phones, but if they are already on Instagram then maybe it's time to delete them to free up space. If you don't want them deleted, than your best bet is to store them elsewhere. You can connect your iPhone to your Mac and back up photos to iPhoto, or to iCloud. When you sign up for iCloud, you get 5 GB of free storage to store photos, music, apps and books and can upgrade for more.
You may also store your photos to Dropbox or Google+, which gives you unlimited storage for photos taken with an iPhone. Download the app and select Auto-Back Up in the Settings.
3. Delete What You Don't Need
When backing up your photos, you may notice that your iPhone saves two of the same image. Your photo saves a second copy using High Dynamic Range (HDR) if your phone has this feature selected on. You can either delete the less quality image, or if you take your photos in HDR, deselect Keep Normal Photo under Settings > Photo & Camera.
lso delete unused games. If you don't use the app all the time, delete it. Some games take up more than 1 GB because of graphics. Common offenders of this are Angry Birds and Oregon Trail. You can delete apps in Settings > General > Manage Storage and tap on apps to see the "Delete App" option.
4. Don't Keep Messages
Okay, we all love to reminisce about that time that person we were into texted us something sweet, but it's time to get rid of old messages that are taking up space. Part of the iOS 8 upgrade is a feature that lets you automatically delete old messages. Go To Settings > Messages > Keep Messages. You can choose to keep messages for 30 days or one year.
Have you freed some space?
This simple trick will clear up an astounding storage space on your phone. It’s unlikely that you can download as many videos as you can.
