Free up space on iPhone It is a task that many users have been forced to do at some point due to Apple's stinginess. The Cupertino-based company has never been characterized by offering, in the entry model, enough storage space to not be forced to delete applications or data.
If you are periodically forced to check the free space on your device to see what you can delete, because your iPhone has no storage space generous, in this article we are going to show you a series of tips to be able to free up space on the iPhone and not have to worry.
What type of content takes up the most space?
The first thing we must do is analyze what are the applications that more space occupy in our device. Games, depending on what type they are, are usually the applications that take up the most space.
But, the section that far exceeds it in the Photos app. Within the Photos application is where all the photos and videos that we take with our iPhone are stored, being the videos (depending on the resolution at which they are recorded) the files that consume the most space on the iPhone
In order not to ramble about what are the applications that take up the most space on our device, from the iOS settings we can know it exactly.
If you want to know so much the space occupied on your device, such as the one occupied by the applications and data stored on your device, you must perform the steps that I show you below.
- First, we access the Settings of our device.
- Next, click on General.
- In the General menu, click on iPhone storage.
- In the next menu, the space occupied by all the applications that we have installed on our computer will be displayed.
How to prevent our iPhone from running out of space
Automatically uninstall apps
Apple introduced a functionality, which very few users use, intended for the most careless users. This application automatically takes care of removing all the applications installed on our computer that They haven't been opened for a while.
This function is found in the same section where the space occupied by all applications that we have installed on our device. To activate it, we must perform the steps that I show you below.
- First, we access the Settings of our device.
- Next, click on App Store.
- Within the App Store menu, we activate the switch Uninstall unused apps.
This feature removes files from applications and games, but preserves application data and documents. By reinstalling the app, the app data will be reset.
Modify the video recording resolution
Another method we have available for reduce storage space that the applications of our device occupy, we find it in modifying the resolution in which we record the videos.
The higher the resolution of the videos, more storage space will occupy in our device. To give us an idea, Apple shows us a guide to the storage space that a minute of video recording occupies depending on the resolution used:
| Size | Decision |
|---|---|
| 40 MB | 720p HD at 30fps |
| 60 MB | 1080p HD at 30fps |
| 90 MB | 1080p HD at 60fps |
| 120 MB | 1080p is 120 fps |
| 480 MB | at 1080p at 240 fps |
| 135 MB | 4K is 24 fps |
| 170 MB | 4K is 30 fps |
| 400 MB | 4K is 60 fps |
The higher the number of frames, the image will be smoother which affects the space it occupies on our device.
For check what video resolution we are using and modify it in your case, we must perform the steps that I show you below:
- We access the Settings of our iPhone.
- Within Settings, click on Camera.
- In the Camera section, click on Record a video.
- Then select the video format in which we want to record taking into account the space it occupies every minute.
Don't install any app
Although it goes without saying, the first advice we can give you to prevent your iPhone from filling up completely and not having free space available is apply knowledge.
If we like to test applications, we must assess whether it is really worth keeping it installed on our device. If not, we must delete it as soon as we try it. In this way, we will prevent our device from being filled with digital garbage.
How to free up space on the iPhone
iCloud
If we do not want to be aware of the space that we have free on our device and if our economy allows it, it is contract storage space in iCloud.
As I have mentioned, photographs and especially videos are the elements that take up the most space on the device. If we hire iCloud, our device automatically takes care of uploading all that content to the Apple cloud and download a lower quality version to our device, a version that takes up much less space than the original.
Copy the photos and videos to the computer
If the possibility of contracting space in iCloud it's out of your budget or you do not have the means to do it, the simplest solution is to periodically move all the content from the Photos app to a computer, either Windows or macOS.
For copy the contents of an iPhone to Windows, we must perform the following steps:
- Pre-install iTunes on our computer from the Windows Store (although we are not going to use it, it is necessary).
- Then we connect our iPhone to the computer and we go to the unit that is shown in My computer of the file explorer.
- We just have to access each directory, select the content, cut it and paste it in the directory where we want to store it.
For copy the contents of an iPhone or iPad from a Mac, there are several methods. The application Photos of Mac, allows us, once our iPhone is connected to the Mac, to extract all the images and delete them from the device to free up space.
WhatsApp is an application, which, silently, fills up storage space of our device. The application stores all the multimedia content that it receives in the application cache, forcing you to periodically delete the space it occupies.