9 Things To Do When Your iPhone Storage is Full

One of the most common ways of saving money when buying a new iPhone is to opt for less storage, but your decision can come back to bite you in a few months when you run out of space.

The best way to maximize your available storage space is to buy the biggest device you can afford. Of course, this is useless advice if you’re already struggling — so here’s what you can do to free up space on your iPhone.

Note: You should probably make a backup of your device before you do anything too major like delete photos or videos. The quickest way of doing this is by connecting your iPhone to your computer and running iTunes.

Delete Photos & Videos

You can free up a lot of space if you’re willing to organize your photos and videos, particularly the latter as they take up a considerable amount of space. The best thing you can do is move media off your device. If you have already set up iCloud Photo Stream to automatically copy your images to your Mac or Windows computer, you probably already have your photos on your computer anyway.

Photo stream stores the last 30 days of photos, with a maximum of 1000 photos in it. Mac users can connect their iPhone, launch Photos, select their device and click Import to ensure all their photos are safely on the computer. For Windows users, the instructions are slightly different depending on your version .

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Once you have your images and videos safely stored elsewhere, you can start deleting. One quick way of regaining a lot of space is deleting everything in the Videos album under the Albums tab. You’ll need to head to the Recently Deleted album under Albums to permanently delete media and regain space when you’re done.

Don’t fancy removing all the images from your device? Read on.

iCloud Photo Library & Other Cloud Storage

One of the easiest ways of freeing up space on your Mac is to use iCloud Photo Library, and the same is true for your iOS devices. The feature allows you to keep “optimized” (read: low resolution) versions of your images on your device at all times, while your original full-sized images are stored in the cloud ready to download when you want them.

There’s just one catch — you’ll need to buy some iCloud storage space to use the feature. Once you’ve signed up, head to Settings > Photo & Camera and enable iCloud photo library. There you can choose to optimize your storage by only keeping smaller images on your phone. This feature will be most noticeable to users with lots of photos on their devices.

If you like the idea of iCloud Photo Library but don’t want to pay, another app called IceCream promises to provide virtually identical functionality for free. The app essentially replaces iCloud, storing your images and videos within the IceCream app and sending your original images to the IceCream servers for storage. The main concerns here are privacy and the fact that IceCream could suddenly turn around and demand money from already-dependent users.

It’s one of the main reasons many users prefer to use paid apps and services over free ones. If this sounds like you, cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive are also able to store your iOS photos, and they’re unlikely to be going anywhere any time soon (though again, you’ll need free space).

Reinstall or Delete Apps

iOS apps store data over time, and there’s no quick way to purge this data on iOS. For some apps, like music production utilities, it’s obvious where this data has gone, and removing files via iTunes File Transfer will regain your space without losing any data. However, there’s no reason for certain apps to occupy so much space on your device.

A classic example is Facebook, and though the app is presently a 115MB download (yes, really) it’s somehow occupying 575MB on my iPhone. To get this data back, you’ll need to delete the app and reinstall it — which restarts the data hoarding process all over again. To find out which apps