How to Free Up Space on iPhone and iPad

Photos are the biggest hogs, they occupy tons of space on iPhone or iPad. Imagine this: You're about to take photos of gorgeous view, but the warning pops up and says "Not Enough Available Storage", then, you have to be forced to delete something in order to continue your photography. It must be pretty annoying right?

To get rid of trouble is easy: Backup your photos and then delete them from your iPhone or iPad every couple of weeks. AnyTrans can help you back up your precious memory on computer with ease. This method will take away some GB of disk space.

Whether if you find out that you always have some rarely used apps on your iPhone or iPad? Actually, these apps will take up some space on your devices, which may also produce junk files and useless data. So, deleting the useless or unwanted apps is a nice way to free up storage on your iPhone or iPad.

To figure out which apps are eating iPhone or iPad disk space, go to Settings > General > Usage > Manage Storage. You can view a long list of apps. Those most frequently used apps caches a lot of data invisibly, in order to free up space, you can delete the apps caches which take up large storage and then reinstall them.

Playing music on an iPhone or iPad is a common phenomenon in daily life, especially for the music enthusiasts who may download thousands of songs on their devices. This means much space on the iPhone or iPad will be filled with the music. To free up more storage on your iPhone or iPad, deleting the unwanted songs is a great idea. You can do this by following the ways bellow:

1 Delete a Specific Song: Open Music App on your iPhone or iPad > Tap the Songs button > Scroll the song you want to delete > Swipe to right > Click Delete to delete the chosen song.

2 Delete All Music (Suits for iDevices in iOS 9 or latter): Go to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usages > Manage Storage > Music > Tap on edit on upper right > Tap on the red minus icon next to All Songs > Tap on Delete.

Maybe you still don’t know the Photo Stream on your iPhone or iPad can automatically sync your last 1,000 photos to all your iCloud devices when connected to Wi-Fi, which means these photos will taken up at least 1GB space on your devices. So unless you need to share your photos from your iPhone or iPad to other devices, or you can turn it off to save space.

To do this, go to Settings > Photos & Camera > Toggle off My Photo Stream on your iPhone or iPad to free up more space.

If you often use Safari to visit various websites on your iPhone and iPad, the Safari histories or Cookies will be saved into your iPhone/iPad that you may simply do not need. As time goes by, it will possibly taken up sizable space on your devices. To clear up space on your iPhone/iPad, you can do like this:

Go to Settings > Safari > Tap on Clear History and Website Data > Clear History and Data from your iPhone/iPad to free up space.

If you store lots of photos or Live Photos on your iPhone or iPad, there may be small room available on your devices. Although you can backup them to iCloud or iTunes to free up space, using Dropbox or Google + to store the photos is a great way.

To backup photos to Dropbox or Google +, all you need is to sign up accounts and then you can backup unlimited photos to them automatically.

iMessages on your iPhone is so convenient that you can send including text messages, videos, photos for free only under a stable Wi-Fi connection. However, while sending and receiving countless iMessages with videos and photos on your iPhone or iPad, it will eat up sizable space if you delete timely.

So you can delete the old or useless iMessages on your iPhone and iPad to free up space: go to Messages App > Delete iMessages by sliding left on a thread and tapping Delete.

For most users, photos may take up large room on their devices, and what they may don’t find out is that the new photos they take possibly being saved as two images. This means you will waste double room to store these photos. Want to know why?

This is because when you take a photo, iPhone allows you to save HDR images and the original non-HDR simultaneously. If you want to keep HDR images only, go to Settings > Photos & Cameras and toggle the "Keep Normal Photo" switch to off.

Want to free up more space on your iPhone or iPad after executing above methods? Fortunately, here we will offer an all-around method – PhoneClean to help you clear up your devices space with ease. It aims to remove all kinds of junk files from iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to free up more space, and also allows you to delete all unwanted files and data to get more available storage on your iDevice. More than anything, it will make a backup of iPhone automatically before performing any cleaning work so that you can easily get them back in case of mistaken deletion.