Besides battery life, Storage space is usually another common problem with mobile phones. Although the main manufacturers of smart phones As they integrate more and more storage capacity, it is easy to find yourself without free space given how much we use our devices. However, there are many ways to free up space on your mobile.
One of the culprits of this problem is the weight of the photos and videos we take with our mobile. Fortunately, we can save a lot of storage space on our phone by changing simple settings so that our photos and videos take up less space without losing too much quality. Read on to find out how to do this.
Save storage space by enabling this feature
We talk about the function Storage Savings available on the Google Pixel, a functionality that is responsible for modifying a series of parameters to Optimize mobile storage space. Of course, the quality of images and videos will be affected, but it can be a nice option if you don’t have a lot of storage space. More precisely, the function Storage Savings
- Photos will only be saved in JPEG format and not RAW.
- Videos will be efficiently stored in H.265/HEVC format.
- Photos will be saved as still images.
- Photos will be saved at half resolution (instead of full resolution).
- Social media depth features are disabled.
- Videos will be recorded in Full HD (1080p) format at 30 frames per second.
If you want to enable this option and optimize storage space on your Android, You just need to follow the following steps:
- Open the app Camera.
- Tap the option More settings.
- Inside the section General you will find the option Device storage.
- Enable the option Storage Savings.
If instead of having this option always active you want to use it only when necessary, Android has a function that allows us to do just that. Specific, Storage Savings It is disabled if we have more than 1 GB available on our device.
This way we don’t have to worry about activating the option manually every time we need it, but the device will activate it automatically if necessary. Of course, it is possible to always leave it activated if we do not activate the option Disable it when space is available.
Enable High Efficiency Format
The feature we’re talking about isn’t available on all layers of Android, so if your device isn’t compatible, there are other ways to Save space every time you take a photo.
One of the most interesting is the use of HEIF or High Efficiency Image File Format. By enabling this option you can save space when capturing images, although it is important to keep in mind that Some apps and websites do not support HEIF images.
In addition to One UI and HyperOS, this feature is available on other Android phones, so we recommend searching for it on your device to see if it’s available.
To activate this format you will need to open the application Camera > and click on Settings > Advanced settings (depending on the mobile) and Locate the HEIF or High Efficiency Image File Format option. In addition to the above, there is a similar option to enable video recording in H.265/HEVC format, although in many cases it is enabled by default.
Use one of the many image compression applications available
The settings we’ve talked about so far allow you to start saving space today, but they won’t help you if you want to compress images you already have on your device.
In this case you can use one of the many image compression tools available in the Google app store. One of the most popular alternatives is Photo compressor and resizerwhich allows us to easily compress and change the size of our photos.
Photo compressor and resizer
Photo Compressor and Resizer is a tool to compress images on Android
Save space in Google Photos
Finally, remember that if you are a Google Photos user, you have the possibility of modifying a simple parameter to modify the quality of the images that you already have stored in the service.
To do this, you just need to start using the option Storage Savings instead of original quality in the Google Photos configuration settings. In this way, the service will change the quality of all the photos you have uploaded to Google Photos since you started using it.
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