Five ways to free up space on your iPhone

Mumbai: Apple iPhones have been infamous for how it limits you from expanding its internal storage. For someone using a 16GB model, only 11.9GB is available for use. To add to that, the models with larger storage space are priced higher and higher. Therefore, you either go with an exorbitantly priced 128GB or just do with the tiny 11.9GB that you have at hand.

But for people who love Apple and the iPhones regardless of this tiny hitch, we have some tips and tricks to help you free up some space on your iPhone. These little things take up a lot of space when put together, and when kept a check on them, they can make a respectable amount of difference in your available storage space.

Clear cache
Users do not even realize but cached files can take up a lot of space, sometimes up to a couple of Gigs. To do that, a user can go to Safari in Settings and scroll down to choose ‘Clear History and Website Data’, that will do the job.

Auto-delete old SMS
By default, an iPhone saves all your sent and received messages in its memory. Therefore, unless you have conversations in your Message inbox that you ought to save, you can limit a time till inactive conversations lie in your phone. Go to Messages in Settings and choose Message History and tap on Keep Messages. Under that, unselect the option of ‘Forever’and change it to 30 days or 1 year.

This will ensure that all inactive conversation are automatically deleted, and don’t take up unnecessary space in your iPhone.

Delete all unwanted apps
If you haven’t used an app in months, you probably don’t even need it. Get rid of all the apps you don’t really require.

Turn off Photo Stream
Essentially Photo Stream makes all images on your other synced iOS devices visible to your even through your iPhone. Even though these images aren’t high resolution, they still take up a lot of space. Go to Settings, Photos and cameras, and toggle off My Photo Stream.

Stop double-saving images
If you click an image on HDR, you will notice that your pictures get saved twice, one in HDR and one in a normal mode. Just choose between the two! Go to Photos & Cameras in Settings, scroll down and toggle off the Keep Normal Photo option.

Also, images and videos uploaded on other apps like Instagram, Dubsmash, VSCO cam, also get saved back with the changes back in to your iPhone, leaving you with two picture – the original one and the edited one. Make sure to disable that from the app settings.