The notification “iPhone Storage Full” appears out of the blue. This is how to remove it.
Apps, movies, and photos quickly fill up an iPhone’s storage capacity. There are still a few ways to make room on your iPhone even if using an SD card won’t allow you to expand its internal storage.
1. Offload or Delete Unused iPhone Apps
To quickly examine the amount of storage space used on your iPhone, navigate to Settings > General > iPhone Storage. A list of apps arranged according to how much storage they take up will appear.
To obtain comprehensive information about an app’s storage consumption, tap on it in the list. You have two options at the bottom: Delete App and Offload App.
Delete App gets rid of the entire app’s data. It is equivalent to removing the application from the Home Screen.
The Offload App retains your personal information while deleting the app’s essential files. If you need the capacity now but expect to utilise the heavier apps or games (like PUBG Mobile) shortly, this is helpful. You can use it to delete the programme, and when you reinstall it later, all of your crucial data will be preserved.
Three tactics that you can use are as follows:
- Eliminate infrequently used apps: To find the lowest-hanging fruit, work your way down the list. Choose the apps, for example, that you almost ever use and may safely remove or offload.
- Delete unneeded files: You can go to each programme individually and delete the unnecessary files they save if you don’t want to do either of these things. For example, you might uninstall certain Spotify songs that you downloaded or delete big iMessage attachments.
- Remove finished games: After finishing a game, delete the file because it takes up a lot of space. They can occasionally take up more room than images and movies, which we will remove next.
2. Delete Old Photos and Videos on Your iPhone
On most people’s iPhones, there are a lot of images and videos. Using a photo deletion programme, you can begin by removing bad and duplicate photos to free up some space.
Remember to clear the Recently Deleted album after using the Photos app to purge your photo collection. The problem where your iPhone images take up space even after they are erased can arise if you don’t clean this album.
Thus, select Recently Deleted > Select from the Albums menu, hit the ellipsis icon, and select Delete All.
To preserve space on your smartphone and upload your images and movies to the cloud, we also advise turning on iCloud Photos. To free up even more space on your iPhone, it’s recommended to navigate to Settings > Photos and choose Optimise iPhone Storage.
Alternatively, you may just utilise your computer as a primary backup drive by just copying them from your iPhone. After that, remove the media from your gadget.
3. Avoid Taking HDR Photos and Videos With Your iPhone’s Camera
The iPhone’s High Dynamic Range (HDR) setting produces tack-sharp images and movies, but at a cost: they take up more storage than regular photos and videos.
You can disable HDR for videos, but not for photographs, on iPhone 13 and subsequent devices. Turn off HDR video by navigating to Settings > Camera > Record Video.
You can turn off HDR for images, but not for videos, as the iPhone 11 and previous generations do not support HDR video recording. Turn off Smart HDR by navigating to Settings > Camera. Additionally, you should refrain from pressing the Camera app’s HDR icon.
4. Optimize Your iPhone’s Messaging Apps
Over time, the amount of SMS, iMessages, and unread spam messages can mount up. You can set a limit on how many texts you store in the texts app by setting it to delete automatically after a certain amount of time.
Instead of selecting “Forever,” select “30 days” or “1 year” under Settings > Messages > Keep Messages. When the prompt for confirmation appears, tap Delete.
By making the most of the capacity on third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp, you may free up space on your iPhone. First, go to WhatsApp > Settings > Storage and Data > Manage Storage to see how much storage each message thread is using.
Next, tap on each contact to see all of the media (arranged according to file size) that is occupying space in your conversation and remove individual items from there.
In the Chats tab, you may also tap into a chat conversation, tap the name of the person you want to contact to get their contact details, and then scroll down to pick Clear Chat to get rid of all of your previous texts with them.
5. Use External Storage for Your iPhone
iPhone users may also use a flash drive with the updated Files app, albeit this is more beneficial for your workflow on an iPad. It’s one method for increasing your iPhone’s storage capacity.
The majority of memory card readers and thumb drives with integrated Lightning ports ought to function properly. With the drive’s extra storage, you can use the extra room to store images, videos, and music. Next, use the Files application as a media player.
Apple claims that while Microsoft’s NTFS format is not supported, exFAT, FAT32, FAT, HSF+, and APFS formats are.
6. Clear System Data and Other Storage on Your iPhone
The iPhone Storage screen’s System Data and Other storage serves as a holding location for several types of cache data, including those from streaming services, Siri voice commands, and log files.
We can assist you remove the system data and other storage on your iPhone if this takes up too much space (about over 20GB).
After you uninstall unwanted apps and tidy up your Photos app, the aforementioned techniques should help you make a large amount of space on your iPhone.
Nevertheless, here’s one more piece of advice: clear the browser caches on your iPhone if you’re running extremely short on storage or need to free up a little space to quickly store a few images or install an app.
Go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data to empty the cache in Safari. After choosing All History, press Clear History. For additional iPhone browser apps, follow identical instructions.
Naturally, you always have the option to factory reset your iPhone to start over. Make sure your iPhone data is backed up before reorganising your device from scratch using a better plan.
If you intend to take a lot of pictures and movies, play games, or save music on your iPhone for offline listening, we strongly advise purchasing an iPhone with additional storage space in the future.