Is much of the information we store on our iPhones. Photos, videos, movies that we download, applications that we use (or not), files and much more. Information that yes, that should be on our iPhone, because we need it or we have to save it, but there are many others that are not.
When we see that our iPhone is approaching the maximum available storage limit, a question pops up, and now what do I delete? Well, there are a lot of things that we can eliminate, unimportant, for recover a good amount of space and be able to continue enjoying our iPhone. Let me tell you about my experience a few weeks ago.
32 GB of reclaimed space, to be exact
I was in front of a customer’s iPhone that was almost at its 128 GB storage limit. My first question was what can we remove? The answer was between fear and bewilderment.. Should we delete things? Everything I have is important,” he told me. Seeing that this was going to be more of a hassle than just deleting downloaded movies or moving the photo library to the cloud, we got to work.
Surely many of us have heard of the space occupied by the “Other” category on the iPhone. A category that can gobble up valuable space and that collects a lot of files and contents which, on the other hand, are not really necessary. This was my goal and the one that allowed us to recover around 32 GB of iPhone space without deleting a single file.
The first thing we did was to update the iphone. The operating system was already downloaded, which took up just over 4 GB of space on the iPhone. After upgrading to iOS 16, the occupied space decreased significantly, since the installer itself was removed from the system. The next thing we did was clear all of Safari’s cache. What is that? Should I do it once in a while? -he told me-. After finding out that this iPhone hadn’t done anything like it in years, I said “you’ll see how the occupied space goes down”.
Well, so much that he fell. They represented, I say from memory, about 12 GB of space. I had never seen him, really. I expected an improvement, but not that much.. Here to clarify that our browsing habits and the pages we visit have a lot to do with the space occupied by this section. But it’s still a good idea to clean up this section in settings > Safari > Clear history and website data.More things. I said “Do you delete messages from the Mail Trash?” It turned out to be a resounding no. “Can I delete them? I said, “Only the ones that are in the trash, the ones you’ve already deleted.” Well yes, about 3 or 4 GB that have been circulating as attachments. There were about 12,000 emails, to give us an idea, and then we turned to applications. Lots of apps that weren’t being used, but weren’t easy to remove. Some because they contained information, others because they were only used very occasionally. Well, we uninstalled them. Remember that in an uninstall, what we do is delete the executable itself, which we can redownload from the App Store with a single click on the application. All information is stored on the iPhone.
With this step, at least 11GB in apps are gone. Yes, apps that can be reinstalled at any time, so this space it’s not something completely “recovered”, but a space to keep in mind. Recall that to uninstall an application, just enter the application settings > General > iPhone Storagetouch the application that interests us and choose uninstall app.
Moreover, in settings > App store we leave the option activated Uninstall unused appsthat automate this uninstallation when there is low space available on the iPhone. Finally, I recommended him to enter WhatsApp and delete some chats he no longer wanted. Not that I dropped them off. To remove them completely. Chat that in many cases we think has been deleted, but isn’t.
Between one thing and another we reclaimed about 32 GB of space from an iPhone. And we did it, what’s most important, without deleting any files. We didn’t have to give away any information or remove the content itself, just leftovers from there or there. Something we can all benefit from, to a greater or lesser extent.
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