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It doesn’t matter how much memory your iPhone has, it always runs out, right?\u00a0 Photos, games, videos, apps… they just seem to burn through all that free space faster than ever. And it can be such a heartache to clear space, because you really do get attached to everything on your phone don’t you?\u00a0 Well, perhaps it’s time to make the firm decision to free up space and help give your phone a new lease of life.\u00a0 Let’s run through the list…<\/p>\n
Apps can take up a surprising amount of space.\u00a0 Okay, it may have been quick to download in the first place, but over time it can end up taking huge amounts of space.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because updates and other content get downloaded in the background.\u00a0 Plus, as you use the app and save data (for example taking and editing photos), that too takes up more and more space.<\/p>\n
And one particular culprit is games.\u00a0 These can easily come to hundreds of megabytes, as they get ever more complicated.\u00a0 So really, when was the last time you played Clash of Clans or Boom Beach, and are you really ever planning to play again?<\/p>\n
Photos accumulatively take up tons of space, but you generally need lots of them.\u00a0 Whereas videos can easily eat through all your available space if you let them, and surprisingly quickly! Whether it’s videos you’ve recorded, TV shows you’re watching, or other videos you’ve transferred to your phone, be merciless about deleting what you don’t watch.\u00a0 You can always add it back later if you really miss it, right?\u00a0 Because you’ll always have at least one backup on your computer, or in the cloud.<\/p>\n
Did you know that often when you take a new photo, it actually gets saved as two images rather than just one?\u00a0 If that sounds crazy, well, there is method in the madness: The iPhone can allow you to take HDR images.\u00a0 This stands for High Dynamic Range. What an HDR image is, is a photo taken at multiple exposures and then turned into one single image so that the final photo looks as good as it can.\u00a0 However, the original photo (non-HDR) is also stored at the same time.<\/p>\n
So if you prefer, you can turn off the option to keep the standard image by going to the Settings screen and then choosing Photos & Cameras. Then, simply choose Keep Normal Photo and decide whether you’d like that to be on or not.\u00a0 Dead easy.<\/p>\n
Text messages by themselves don’t take up much space.\u00a0 Where the space really starts getting eaten up is if you’re sending and receiving images.\u00a0 Those images just sit in your messages taking up more and more space. I understand how you get attached to text conversations, but maybe at least prune some of the messages?\u00a0 Or even entire conversation threads if you can face doing that. And don’t forget about voice mails. If you have a habit of saving these messages, perhaps it’s time to clear those out.<\/p>\n
So just these simple tactics can clear out a ton of space, help your phone run more smoothly, and at least then you can save the images, videos and apps you really want.<\/p>\n
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