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.
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.
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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