Put yourself in a situation: today is the big day. Today you are going to the concert of your favorite band. You have been buying tickets for months and you are thinking only and exclusively about this day. And it has finally arrived. you prepare, make sure your iPhone is fully chargedand you even take a powerbank just in case, and go to the place of the event.
You arrive, go through security and are already inside. You are looking for the best place possible and you are preparing to have an unforgettable time. Your favorite artist takes the stage and starts singing. You pull out your iPhone, open the camera, select the video option, put it in 4K to make it look better, and “your iPhone storage is almost full”. you can’t save anything
There is no standard way to do this, but everything helps
“But I have 128GB and I’ve downloaded almost nothing,” you say as you stare at your iPhone screen in disbelief. you are going to settings, iPhone Storage and you discover the worst of your nightmares: it’s called “the others” and it’s one of the worst experiences you can have with a Cupertino device.
“Others” is like some kind of entity, who doesn’t quite know what it is, but wanders remorselessly through your iPhone’s memory. It will run out and consume until you only have a few free GB left to install WhatsApp (but forget to download the 24 daily videos that your brother-in-law sends you).
“Others” is something that many dread, but with a few simple steps we will be able to reduce it considerably
We at Applesfera want to tell you how to get rid of this ballast and increase the real storage capacity of your iPhone. But first, what are “the others”? “Other” is Apple’s way of calling everyone small temporary files which remain integrated in the memory of your iPhone. They take up little space, but put together they can quickly drain your device’s storage.
There is no standard way to remove them. There is no button in the storage section called “delete others”, or anything like that. It’s a bit more complex process, and that’s why we want to show you exactly how it’s done. You just need to follow these steps:
Delete browsing history and data in Safari:
- and one Setting > Safari.
- Choose “Clear history and website data“.
This is something that adds up over months and years and ends up being very time consuming, you can get a little extra storage depending on your situation.
Delete old messages:
- and one Setting > posts.
- In “keep the messages“, select a shorter period, such as 30 days.
Remove attachments from messages:
- open app posts and search for conversations with attachments.
- Long press an attachment and select “Further“.
- Select the files you want to delete and touch trash can icon.
Your brother-in-law’s famous videos, Excel sheets, PDFs… whatever. everything takes up spaceand if you don’t want to keep it, the best thing to do is delete it so that you can use that space for more useful things.
Update your iPhone to the latest version of iOS:
- and one Setting > General > Software update and follow the instructions.
Keeping your iPhone up to date is good either way, for performance and security reasons. However, these new versions sometimes bring a better storage managerso it doesn’t hurt to update.
There are other ways to minimize the “other” section of your iPhone, be the most drastic of all is to reset the phone and start over, but the idea wasn’t to delete one app, and so you would delete them all. With these tips we have given you, you should be able to free up space on your iPhone.
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