If we talk about Android , it is easy to find dozens of applications that clean the storage, as well as several ways to access the root of the phone and be intrusive with the files. iOS works in another way, although we can also use the broom to clean the phone thoroughly .
We are going to teach you how to free up space on your iPhone , not only so that you eliminate everything you do not need, but also to optimize the use of the terminal itself, so that you can live to spare with memory capacities that are not the maximum.
Delete apps and let them delete them for you
Installing dozens of applications and forgetting about them is a basic point, but we must comment. Delete all the apps you don’t use. If you don’t remember when you used an application, in the Storage section of the iPhone you will find the date on which you used each of your apps .
The option to delete unused applications is more than useful to keep the iPhone clean automatically
With high probability, you will be surprised that there are applications that you may never have opened, and that take up space without any need. For the iPhone to do this automatically, in this same section, you can activate the option to remove unused apps , a tool that will automatically delete those applications that you do not use in a long time. This option saves the documents and data of these apps , so if you need them again, you will not lose these contents.
Beware of WhatsApp
Messaging applications are one of the main causes of us running out of internal memory. Audios, photos, videos, GIFs, etc. In the case of WhatsApp, we can control how much space the files of each conversation occupy , to eliminate those data that are not relevant to us.
- Go to WhatsApp settings
- Data and storage
- Storage usage
- Click on the conversation
- Manage
- Delete the data you consider
Time to go to the cloud and delete local files
Using the cloud or sticking with local storage is a personal decision, no doubt. However, our recommendation, given that we have free alternatives with minimal compression, as well as fairly inexpensive iCloud plans, is to upload our multimedia content to the cloud.
Going to the cloud allows us, on the one hand, to have all our files available on the different devices. In the same way, it saves us space in the internal memory
Why? First of all, because it serves as a backup . If your phone is lost, stolen, broken, or otherwise inaccessible, you won’t lose your precious memories. On the other hand, in the case of Google Photos, for example, if you change your mobile, whether it is iPhone or Android, all your photos will still be there , just by downloading the application.
From this house we already tell that Google Photos is one of our main alternatives, but betting on iCloud plans is not a bad idea either. Automatically, a copy of your photos will be made, so you can enjoy them on all your Apple devices. Betting on the cloud allows us to minimize the storage that the gallery consumes , and it is that on many occasions we can run out of space if we have many photos and videos.
Delete Live Photos
Live Photos are a rather eye-catching feature of the iPhone, in which the phone takes several photos instead of one to achieve short video clips. As expected, this takes up more space than a single photograph , so if we do not use this function too much, we can deactivate it when we go to take the photos.
The Live Photos icon is in the upper right of the camera interface. We just have to click on that icon for Live Photos to deactivate .
Delete the ‘Others’ data
Some iPhone owners have suffered from the ‘others has exploded’ section , practically filling up the internal memory. In this section of ‘Others’ you will find the file history, cookies, temporary files, system data, Siri voices and others.
If we want to erase the space occupied by ‘Others’, we have no choice but to individually erase the data of the applications whose stored data is excessive, since being a section in which iOS stores data automatically, we cannot delete it per se
