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How To Get More Storage On iPhone Without Having To Pay For It?

Shortage of storage space is an issue that is commonly faced by iPhone owners and they are often on the lookout for ways to optimize storage space and find out how to get more storage on iPhone. Whether it’s the apps that are consuming most of your storage space or the music, photos and videos that eat up your iPhone’s storage, something has to be done about it. Remember, you cannot upgrade the internal storage of your iPhone unless you buy a new one.

However, even if you don’t know how to get more storage on iPhone, there is some help available. Even though you can’t expand internal storage of your iPhone, you can still do little things to preserve it.

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How To Get More Storage On iPhone

So, let’s just don’t waste any time and get on with determining how your iPhone storage can be optimized.

  1. Delete Apps That Aren’t Needed Anymore

That goes without saying and it’s probably the most straightforward thing you can do to expand your iPhone storage. It’s inevitable for iPhone users to have downloaded various apps that they used once only and then found a better replacement. So, all you need to do is to ditch those unused apps and remove them from your iPhone storage. Deleting only a few of these unused apps might help you free up ample storage space without much of an effort.

If you want to delete apps right from your iPhone’s Home Screen, just tap their icon and hold until it starts jiggling. Once it does, you have entered the Edit Mode. Now, tap on X button available towards top left side of the screen for deleting the app.

  1. Delete Games You Don’t Play Anymore

Gaming apps can be small or large and you have to be very careful about installing games that eat up significant amount of storage space on your iOS device. Some of them may even consume 1 GB storage space or even more due to 3-D graphics. So, if you do not play some of these games anymore, for whatever reason, you should better get rid of them and free up some precious storage space on your device.

  1. What To Do About Game Center, Stocks And Other Such Apps

It’s sometimes hard to delete a few apps because they’re the stock apps that are shipped pre-installed with the new iPhones. Some of these apps include Game Center, Stocks, Calendar, Notes, and others like these. However, even though Apple restricted iPhone users from being able to delete any such apps in the past, the restriction has been lifted since the introduction of iOS 10 and a few of such apps can now be deleted if you want to. These include FaceTime, Mail and Stocks. Still, remember that these apps are essentially hidden rather than getting permanently deleted from your device. Any data related to the app is deleted and helps you regain space. However, it won’t be too much as the app still exists on your device.

  1. Find Out The Apps Consuming Most Of Space

A cool option you have for finding out apps and deleting them if they’re consuming a lot of space is to browse to Settings and then select the iPhone Storage option in General settings. If you’re running one of the older iOS versions, you should be looking for Storage & iCloud Usage in General and then tap on Manage Storage.

With a delay of few seconds, a list will appear containing all the apps arranged according to the space they are taking on your device’s storage and the major space busters will be right there at the top.

Just scroll down the list and get rid of the apps brutally. If some app that you don’t use too often is consuming a major chunk of storage space on your device, you should better get rid of it. Obviously, you can get it back when you need it in future. When you have bought an app, it is tied to the Apple ID registered to you and Apple will know who the owner is.

Also, as your iOS shows when the app was used last, you can easily find out the apps that are taking up too much of space and actually don’t justify it.

  1. Optimize Storage On Your iPhone

If you’re running iOS 8 or later on your device, you can be able to keep storage optimized, lower resolution photos/videos on your device. Wondering what happens to the full resolution versions? Well, they go to your iCloud. For utilizing this storage optimization feature, you’ll have to open Settings on your device, go to Photos & Camera, then turn on iCloud Photo Library and finally select the Optimize iPhone Storage option. It simply will ensure that you never panic-delete your photos again.

  1. Delete Any App Data That You Do Not Need

If you want to take a deeper look at the storage space that is being consumed by different apps, you should again go to Settings and check iPhone Storage in General Settings and then click that arrow in front of each app on the list. It will allow you to find out exactly how much of data is being used by an app itself, and what’s the amount of additional space being consumed by data and documents of that app.

For instance, the Kindle app usually is 111.7 MB in size but it consumes additional space for keeping all your data and documents. And, even that could go in MBs.

When you tap the arrow in front of each app, it also shows you the option of ‘offloading’ it which means any and all data and documents of the app will be deleted. As a result, more storage space is created on your iPhone.

  1. Delete Messages To Create Space

 Getting rid of your app data can be helpful in reclaiming ample storage space but another quick fix would be to delete any and all of your old messages that are lying there on your iPhone needlessly. It may not take more than a minute to clear GBs of space.

You may be thing that it would take too long to delete messages one by one, however, it shouldn’t go like that. It’s easy to kill messages together simply by telling your device to purge the ones that have stayed longer than a specified time period. For instance, you can mention anything older than a month or a year should be deleted.

For specifying this, you will have to go to Settings and then Messages. In Message History option, tap on Keep Messages and specify your desired parameter and then click on Delete. It is recommended, however, that anything precious shouldn’t be deleted.

  1. Delete Images From iMessage

If you’re not interested in mass-deleting your Messages from iPhone, you can still save space by deleting any space-heavy images as well as other media stored on your device from iMessage.

For deleting images from iMessage, you just have to open a particular conversation containing the image, tap & hold the image in the thread to reveal reaction icons above that particular image. However, you can see another menu at bottom of that image. Tapping More from that menu will reveal small tick-circles in front of every message as well as image. Just select all the images that you want to delete and tap on bin icon towards bottom left for deleting them all. You can also find an option labeled ‘Delete All’ towards top left side of the screen; you can use this for deleting entire conversation, including images and texts.

To do it even more quickly, you can tap I button towards top right side of the conversation and select either Attachments or Images. Next, you can tap desired image and hold before selecting More option. Now, you can select all the images you like and tap bin icon for getting rid of them.

  1. Remove Any Old Videos And Podcasts

As it often happens, we download videos and podcasts to our device, enjoy them for a short period, and then just forget about them altogether. Remember, however, that a podcast spanning over 30 minutes only would eat up around 25 MB space on your iPhone and it’s always advisable to delete such stuff as soon as you are done with it.

To keep things simpler, the podcasts app from Apple even assists you by sorting the played items towards bottom of the list. All you have to do is to swipe left and your individual podcasts will be deleted.

  1. Record Your Videos At Lower Resolution

With latest iPhone models, you get the option of reducing your video quality as you record videos. Quite often, one minute videos can consume around 400 MB space on the iPhone’s internal storage when recorded at 4K video quality. And, you’d probably not like to do that.

The default setting on iPhone must be 1080p at 60 fps. However, you can make it even more economical by setting it at 720p and 30fps. The new setting would probably reduce the video size to 40 MB a minute instead of 90 MB a minute.

This new video setting can be made by going to Settings and then Camera and finally tapping on Record Video. Here you’ll have the options available and you can select the desired one to keep storage consumption to minimum.

So, that’s how to get more storage on iPhone without having to pay for it. All the options available are just the workarounds that you can try out and save on existing storage space and free it up to accommodate more stuff. Just try a few and keep your iPhone ready to accommodate more..

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