How to free up space on iPhone and iPad
If you have a iPhone or iPad with a few Gb, surely you have found yourself in the position of not being able to take more photos or downloading an app due to the low storage space available on your device. Today you are in luck because we share with you one of our most interesting tutorials for iPhone.
Normally it is the photos and videos that consume the most megabytes. This means that we must make a backup copy of them and delete them from our device to free up space.
If you have a version of iOS that is older than the latest version available, you may have downloaded the latest version iOS without your knowledge and you can increase megabytes of storage by deleting that version.
There are many ways to free up space but few know that within the applications most used by all of us, we have options that allow us to free up storage space. Next we tell you how to do it.
To find out what each app is dealing with on the device, go to Settings/General/Storage of the iPhone.
How to free up space on iPhone from apps:
Here we will talk about how to increase the storage space available on your devices, in the applications that we all use the most in our day to day. If there is one that you use a lot and it is not in the following list, we recommend that you investigate its settings to find the option that allows you to release the cache, if there is one.
Free up space on WhatsApp:
Before doing what we are telling you below, it is a good idea to review all the photos and videos that you want to save, since they will be lost. In the following video we show you how to proceed to free up space on WhatsApp:
Clear Spotify Cache:
Enter the app and from the lower menu «Start», click on the cogwheel that appears in the upper right part. Within the configuration menu, click on the Storage option and then press the "Clear cache" button.
If you have downloaded music you can delete it too, to get more free storage, by clicking on “Remove all downloads” .
Telegram allows you to clear cache:
Within the application we access Settings / Data and storage / Storage use and select "Clear Telegram cache".Just like in WhatsApp , you can delete chats to free up even more space. These appear at the bottom and by clicking on them you can delete them to get more storage space.
It also has some options that allow you to manage multimedia content and the size of the cache in Telegram. This is ideal to prevent storage consumption in the app from skyrocketing.
Free up space by deleting downloaded content on Twitter:
Access the settings by clicking on your profile image and then on the “Settings and privacy” option. Now look for the “Accessibility, screen and languages” section and within it click on “Data use”. We go down to the end of the list of options and in “Storage” click on both “Multimedia storage” and “Web storage” to delete data.
On Snapchat you can free up a lot of space on your iPhone:
Click on the upper left image where our profile image or our last uploaded snap appears. Within the menu that appears, click on the gear wheel that we will see in the upper right part of the screen and select the option “Clear cache” (it is almost at the end).
You can also increase space by deleting conversations and search history that you will see under the "Clear cache" button .
Delete downloads on Netflix to free up space on iPhone:
Click on the “Downloads” menu that appears at the bottom of the screen characterized by a down arrow. From there we can delete those that we have already seen or that we do not want to have stored on our device. Swipe left on the series, movie, or documentary you want to delete.
If you want to delete all downloads at once, click on your profile image, at the top right of the screen. Then choose the “Application settings” option and click on “Delete all downloads” .
Free up space by deleting Prime Video movies and series:
To do this, click on the "Downloads" option that appears in the bottom menu of the screen, and slide to the left all the downloads that we want to delete.
If we want to delete them all, click on "Select" and we will see that an option called "Select all" appears that we must mark and then click on "Delete" which will appear in red at the bottom of the screen.
Free up space by deleting content from the HBO MAX app:
Click on the "Downloads" option that appears in the bottom menu of the screen with a downward arrow, and slide to the left all the downloads that we want to delete.
If we want to delete all of them, click on the button marked with a pencil, under our profile image, we will see that an option called “Delete all” appears that we must click to delete all the downloads.
Delete the maps and data that you accumulate in Google Maps:
Access the menu by clicking on your profile, which appears at the top right of the screen. Once the menu appears, click on the "Settings" option and go down to "Information, terms and privacy". There we click on "Clear application data" .
If you have Youtube Premium, delete downloaded videos:
If you are Youtube Premium users you can free up space by deleting videos you have downloaded. To do this, access your profile by clicking on its image. Then go into settings and select “Background playback and downloads” and then tap on “Delete downloads” .
In the dialog box titled “Delete all downloads?” , tap the Delete button below. and after that, look for “Delete downloads”. If you have a lot of videos, you will surely free up a lot of storage space.
Delete photos and videos you've deleted from your camera roll:
When you delete photos or videos from your camera roll, you don't delete them completely as they end up in an album called “Deleted” . In it we have them available for 30 days in case we regret having deleted any. From there we have the possibility of recovering them.
Well, deleting all those images and videos will free up a lot of space. To do this, access the reel of your device and from the "Albums" menu, which appears at the bottom of the screen, go down to the bottom. There you will find the album “Deleted”. Once inside it, clicking on "Select" , which appears in the upper right part of the screen, the option "Delete all" will appear, in the lower left part of the screen.
Free up space on iPhone by deleting songs from Apple Music:
Enter the device settings and follow the following path Settings/Music/Downloaded music. From there we can delete downloads, sliding to the left the one we want to delete to increase our free space on the iPhone and iPad.
Clear cache and saved data in Safari:
Accessing the settings of your iPhone or iPad and go to Settings/Safari . Once in the settings, click on the option “Clear history and website data” which will appear in blue.
Delete Podcast from native iOS app:
If you use the native Podcast app, enter it and click on the “Library” menu and then on the “Downloaded” option we can access the “folders” that They appear to delete the ones we want to delete, moving them to the left.
TikTok delete the cache generated in your profile:
By clicking on the option of your profile, the button that appears on the far right in the lower menu, and then by clicking on the 3 horizontal and parallel lines that appear in the upper right part of the screen, you will access the app settings by clicking on the “Settings and privacy” option.From there, we will access the "free up space" option and deleting both the cache and the downloads will free up part of all the space that this app occupies.
Also, from "Settings and privacy" accessing the "History of watched videos" option, we can delete all of them by clicking on "Select" and then clicking on "Select all video history" that appears on the bottom bottom of the screen. This way we will also free space.
Free up storage space in Chrome:
By clicking on the three dots that appear at the bottom right of the screen, the option to “Clear browsing data” will appear. There we click on "Clear browsing data" that appears in red, to free up all the space consumed by the app.
Delete iMessages:
Delete all the conversations you have to free up space, especially those in which you have shared photos, videos, audios .
To free up space on iPhone uninstall apps like Instagram, Facebook :
Apps like Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Facebook do not have options to free up storage.
To reduce the space they occupy in our terminals, it is best to uninstall them and reinstall them. In this way we will delete browsing data, cache, histories that have accumulated over the time of use.
This method is somewhat rudimentary, but it is the only thing we can do to reduce the "weight" of these applications.
Without further ado, we hope you found this tutorial helpful and now you have more Gb available on your iPhone and iPad.
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