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With the release of the iPhone 7, Apple finally ditched the production of mobile devices with 16GB of storage on board. Modern realities say that the use of gadgets with so much free space (and in fact it is even less, and that's why) is not life, but some kind of existence. If you are the owner of such an iPhone or iPad or just want to free up disk space to the maximum, then we will tell you how to do it as efficiently as possible.

How much free space is left on the iPhone or iPad and how is disk space used?

Going to Settings → General → About this device, you can find out summarized data about the available and used space, as well as information about the number of media files.

If you need specifics, then you need to go to Settings → General → iPhone Storage.

Here you can see a complete list of installed applications on the device, including standard "Photos", " Music" and others. Next to each application, the amount of used disk space and the date of the last use are displayed.

The following ways to free up space on your gadget include both obvious steps and methods that even experienced users do not know about.

and install the tvOS 11 Beta Software Profile on your iPhone or iPad. Then you will need to restart your device.

After these steps, the system will stop downloading updates to the iPhone or iPad. If the user needs a fresh firmware, then to install it, it will be necessary to first delete the tvOS 11 Beta Software Profile.

Remove attachments in Messages (iMessage)

Attachments in messages can also take up a lot of device space. In order to get rid of excess cargo, you should go to the Messages application, open any conversation and click on the "Details" button, which is located in the upper right corner of the screen. Then you need to click on any attachment and hold until the "More" menu item appears - select it and decide on the materials to be deleted. After that we press “ Remove attachment"And all unnecessary files will be erased from the gadget's memory.

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Set a limit on the storage time of audio and video messages

All audio and video messages that the user receives on his device are saved in the gadget's memory by default. As a result, they accumulate and begin to take up a lot of space. IOS has the ability to set the storage time for such messages. To do this, go to "Settings", go to "Messages" → "Audio messages" or "Video messages" and in the "Expires" menu select the time after which unnecessary information will be deleted from memory.

Set storage times for SMS and iMessage

You can also set how long text messages are stored. To do this, open "Settings", go to "Messages", then go to "Leave messages" and mark the item "30 days". After these actions, text messages in the Messages application will be deleted after 30 days. That is, only messages for the last month will remain in the memory of the iPhone or iPad.

Disable Photo Stream

Although the "Photo Stream" option, which shares photo and video content between user devices, is inherently very convenient, but if there is a lack of space on the gadget, it is better to disable it. This is done very simply: go to the "Settings", go to the "Photos" menu and turn off the "My Photo Stream" function there.

Turn off iCloud Photo Sharing

Another convenient option that is better to turn off if the free memory on the device becomes less and less - "Sharing iCloud Photos". This function provides the ability to create shared albums with other users.

When the option is activated, all the content of shared albums is automatically transferred to the storage, thus taking up space on the gadget. You can deactivate the function in "Settings", in the "Photos" section - there you should switch the slider opposite the item "Sharing iCloud Photos".

Use cloud services

Photos and videos can also be stored in the "cloud" on third-party resources: Google Photos, Yandex.Disk, Dropbox and others. All of these services provide free storage to which you can transfer content loading iPhone or iPad memory. It is only important to make sure before deleting photos and videos from the device that they have been completely copied to the "cloud".

Disable saving by default HDR originals

The Camera application, by default, saves the original photos to the device when you take HDR shots. This, of course, also affects the amount of memory. To disable the saving of originals, you need to open the "Settings", then go to the "Camera" section and there move the slider opposite the item "Keep original" to the OFF position.

Delete unnecessary podcasts

The podcasts the user is subscribed to are automatically downloaded to the device. If you do not follow this process, then soon the downloaded materials can take up a significant amount of memory. Removes old and unnecessary new podcasts in the respective application. There we find unnecessary records, click on the icon with three dots opposite them, and select the item "Delete loaded object".

Set up deletion of listened podcasts

To avoid wasting time manually deleting the podcasts you have listened, you can easily automate this process. To do this, go to the "Settings", select "Podcasts" and in the window that opens, activate the option "Delete played".

Delete unnecessary books from iBooks

Even the contents of a standard iBooks reader can negatively affect the free memory space of the gadget. Therefore, it will not be superfluous to check if there are any materials in the application to be removed. To do this, start the reader, click on the "Change" button in the window that opens, look for unnecessary books and magazines, mark them and erase them from the database.

Connect Apple Music

A significant number of users clog the device memory with music. However, in our time, to listen to audio, it is not at all necessary to download it to your gadget. And with the Apple Music streaming service, there is no need to store your favorite music on your device.

A subscription to the service costs 169 rubles per month (you can also listen for 45 rubles per month, see instructions below), but the first three months you can use it for free. Apple Music has a huge database of music content from different genres and categories from around the world, as well as personal selections and online radio stations. Registration in the service is carried out in the "Music" application.

Delete the Mail app cache

Often, after deleting all emails and attachments from the Mail application, the application itself continues to take up a lot of space on the device. The reason for this is the program cache, which accumulates in memory and can eventually reach several gigabytes in size. You can find out how much the Mail application "weighs" in "Settings". There we open the "General" tab, enter the "Storage and iCloud" section, go to "Storage" and click "Manage" there.

As for the cache, there is only one way to clean it. To do this, you need to remove the application itself from the device and then reinstall it from the App Store. This will free the program from garbage and thereby increase free space on the gadget. You should only uninstall the application if you remember your login details for your mail account.

Clear your iTunes cache

Do you often rent movies from iTunes (instructions)? Get ready for the fact that the cache is likely to be replenished with a few extra gigabytes. To completely clear it, you need to log out from the iOS settings and log back into your Apple ID account, and as a control measure, do a hard reboot of the device (simultaneously hold down the Home and Power keys and hold them until the Apple logo appears (10-15 seconds)).

Optimize Apple Music Storage

If you purchase a paid Apple Music subscription, you will have access to the Optimize storage feature (Settings → Music). In it, you can set the maximum amount of space allocated for compositions. When the limit is reached, the application will automatically delete the old songs that you listened to the least.

Disable automatic media uploads on WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, etc.

The popular messenger WhatsApp (also applies to Viber, Telegram, etc.), by default, saves all multimedia content from correspondence to the standard iOS media library. Not only does it take up free disk space, but the "Camera Roll" will be filled with mostly unnecessary junk.

To disable automatic upload, go to the client settings → Chats and turn the switch next to "Save media" to the inactive position. We wrote more about this here.

Clear the Safari cache

In order to delete the Safari cache (viewed pages, images, etc.) open Preferences → Safari and click on "Clear history and site data".

And if you go to the "Add-ons" section, you can clear the site data, if of course there are any.

Delete the Reading List Cache in Safari

The Safari Reading List is an option that allows you to access articles and individual pages on the Web without an Internet connection. However, the saved data takes up a lot of space, so it is recommended to clear the list cache from time to time. To do this, in the "Settings" go to the "General" section, and from there to the "iPhone Storage". Next, go to the Safari section and delete unnecessary files from the Offline List tab.

Clear cache of other apps

Almost all applications and games, while on the device, save temporary files to it. To get rid of excess cargo, you will need to follow the path "Settings" -\u003e "General" -\u003e "iPhone storage". There you will have to search for all applications and games on your own and, when possible, delete their cache.

In the settings of a large number of third-party programs, there is a function to delete the cache. Do not be too lazy to dash through such nooks to delete irrelevant data and free up space.

Reinstall games and applications

Alternative to the previous method. You can get rid of temporary files in apps and games by simply deleting them from your device and then reinstalling them from the App Store.

Reinstall social media clients (Vkontakte, Facebook, Instagram, etc.)

A lot of garbage accumulates on the gadget due to social networking applications. This category of utilities, as a rule, is very actively used by users, because a large number of temporary files quickly accumulate on the gadget. The easiest way to get rid of them is to reinstall the client. That is, you need to delete and re-download from the App Store the application that requires cleaning from garbage.

Remove unwanted voices in iOS

If you've ever used Siri's disabled features and downloaded additional languages, be sure to remove them. The size of languages \u200b\u200busually takes up several hundred megabytes of disk space. They are used in VoiceOver by which the assistant speaks the names of items on the display.

Go to Settings → General → Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Voice, and then uninstall additional languages.

A tricky way to clear your memory you might not know about

If there is a catastrophically small amount of space on the device, it can be quickly reclaimed in one clever way described in detail here. You need to select a large application, game or movie and download it to your gadget. The system will record that there is not enough space on the iPhone or iPad for downloading, and will begin to independently get rid of unnecessary temporary files, which are virtually impossible to reach on your own.

First, you should find out how much free memory on the device, and select an application or game, the size of which exceeds this memory. It goes without saying that after installing such software, it will need to be removed immediately.

It happens that the selected application does not want to download to the device - this means that there is extremely little space left on the gadget. In this case, select a program with a smaller size.

Use specialized programs to clear iPhone and iPad memory

Third-party developers offer many utilities (for example, iPhone Care Pro or PhoneClean) that will automatically help you get rid of unnecessary temporary files. It happens that after using them, several gigabytes of memory are freed up on the device at once. Using such utilities is extremely simple - they all have an intuitive interface.

Hello everyone, friends. Today I want to give you some tips on clearing memory on iPhone. For me, the question of how to free up space on the iPhone, as for many other owners of this smartphone, is very exciting. Your memory quickly clogs up and you don't know what to do? How to take new photos and where to install modern games?

This problem especially affected the owners of iPhones and iPads with 16 gigabytes. Memory clogs up very quickly. Fortunately, there are ways to free up several gigabytes. Now I'll tell you about them !!!

Remove unnecessary apps

Don't say you need ALL iPhone apps! Everyone on a computer, phone or tablet has programs that, after installation, were opened only a couple of three times. Now you will need to analyze all applications and conclude which ones are needed and which are not.

Open up Settings - General - Storage & iCloud - Manage.

Here we see all the applications that we have installed. At the very top, the ones that take up the most space.

Go through this list and delete everything you don't need. For example, I no longer play Pokemon GO, which means I can free up 200 megabytes!

Some users store all their videos and photos on their phone, but this is unreliable and very memory intensive. If we look at my phone, we can see that the photos and videos are over 1 gigabyte. You need to drop them on a computer or laptop, and remove them from the smartphone.

Here I will NOT teach you how to send pictures to a computer or vice versa. For this, the site has corresponding lessons.

If you decide to free up space on the iPhone, then you will most likely have to upload pictures to your computer, since this method usually significantly frees up memory on your smartphone.

Reinstall Apps

If you look at your applications that you installed six months or a year ago, you will find such a thing that they are "fat", that is, they have become a lot more news! This is due to the fact that programs save a different cache and do not delete. You cannot delete the cache from the application separately, that is, you need to completely remove the application and the cache will be deleted along with it.

Let's reinstall the applications that are very fat.

For example, I have Google Photos. It weighs 240 megabytes, although I know that at the very beginning this application did not take even hundreds of megabytes. Now I uninstall it and reinstall it from the App Store.

Upon completion of the operation, I return to the Storage and see that now Google Photo weighs 75 megabytes.

Better already!

Thus, you need to reinstall everything " devoured"applications. If you suddenly do not know how much one or another application weighs in the original, then first go to the App Store and see information about the application.

Delete video immediately after shooting

If you are going to an event where tens of gigabytes of video will be filmed on the iPhone, then you can try the following scheme. Using Yandex Disk or Dropbox, upload video files to the cloud, and then delete them from your phone and continue shooting.

The bottom line is simple: you need to install Yandex Disk and the application of the same name on the iPhone on your computer. You will have a special folder for Yandex Disk on your computer, which you can select in the settings.

Now on your iPhone, open the Yandex Disk application and upload all your videos there.

These videos will be uploaded to the cloud, that is, to Yandex servers. Now, after turning on the computer and connecting to the Internet, these videos will automatically be uploaded to the Yandex Disk folder.

Naturally, after you make sure that the videos are uploaded to Yandex Disk, you can delete them from your phone.

The most important reason that can stop you from using this method is slow Internet and limited traffic. But if the speed is good and unlimited traffic, then you can safely upload videos to Yandex Disk or another cloud service and delete these files from your smartphone.

Empty trash

Of course, after deleting photos and videos, you need to remember to empty the trash, since the files are stored there for another 30 days and take up precious space on your phone!

Delete music and movies

Optimize the amount of music and movies on your iPhone. Delete unnecessary! For example, I deleted all the music from my phone a long time ago and now I listen to everything online, usually VKontakte. Very comfortably!

If and, then only if necessary! For example, I'm going somewhere far away and I want to listen to something on the way. For a train, the very thing, especially when the network signal is lost and it is impossible to listen to music online.

Temporarily uninstall games and applications

If you urgently need to free up space on your iPhone, you can temporarily remove some applications and games. Especially nowadays, when the game can easily weigh 2 gigabytes. By removing a couple of such games, we will have several thousand megabytes for new videos, photos and applications.

Remove pending iOS updates

If the corresponding function is not disabled, then new versions of iOS are automatically downloaded to the iPhone. To remove them and disable auto-update, do the following.

Open up Settings - General - Storage & iCloud - Manage.

Find the downloaded firmware and remove it. Fortunately, I don't have it.
And so that later updates are not downloaded without our permission, we go back to the settings and find the iTunes Store and App Store menus.

Inside, remove the switch from the Updates item.

Erase content and settings

If you bought your iPhone a long time ago and already has hundreds of different applications installed on it, thousands of photos and videos, an infinite amount of cache, then perhaps your phone it's time to start life from scratch? You can delete all data from your iPhone and return it to its factory state! But naturally, all photos, videos and programs will be deleted, so I warn you right away!

If you decide on this step, then go to Settings - General and at the very bottom, find the Reset item.

In the new window, we need the item Erase content and settings and then Erase iPhone.

The smartphone will reboot and we will be prompted to set it up as a new device! The memory will be 100% free. All that remains is to log into the App Store, install all the necessary applications, set the wallpaper, download music, if necessary, and the like.

Attention! In some cases, you cannot reset iPhone to factory settings. Be extremely careful! Before you reset your iPhone to factory settings, make sure there are no important files like photos and videos left on your phone! Also check if the "Find iPhone" function is enabled (go to Settings - iCloud - Find iPhone).

With the "Find iPhone" function enabled, you will need to enter your APPLE ID login and password after resetting your iCloud. If you do not have this data, then you cannot perform a full reset.
Otherwise, you will not be able to activate the device until you enter the username and password from your APPLE ID.

Try disabling Find My iPhone! If you succeed, now you can safely reset the iPhone to factory settings and are not afraid that it will freeze during the activation phase.

In addition to all of the above, just in case, before resetting the settings, I recommend using iTunes to back up your device!

That's all, the lesson is over, good luck everyone!

In the process of using iPhone, various files inevitably accumulate in its memory. As a result, sooner or later, a moment comes when the memory runs out and the user can no longer save or write anything. In such a situation, a completely logical question arises of how to free up memory on the iPhone in order to be able to continue using the smartphone.

In this article, we'll show you three of the most efficient ways to free memory. They will be relevant for all modern iPhone models, including iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 5c, 6, 6s and 7.

Method number 1. Removing unnecessary applications.

The easiest and most effective way to free up memory on your iPhone is to remove unnecessary applications. In principle, you can delete applications from the desktop, but in this case, you will not know how much memory can be freed by deleting an application. Therefore, it is best to open the iPhone settings and go to the "General - Using storage and iCloud" section.

Here you will see information about the occupied memory in the internal storage of the iPhone and in the iCloud service. In order to free up memory on the iPhone you need to go to the "Manage" internal storage.

After that, you will see a list of all applications installed on the iPhone. In this case, to the right of each of the applications will indicate how much space it takes up in memory. For example, in the screenshot below, you can see that the Angry Birds 2 application takes up over 400 megabytes of memory. If you do not need this application, then you can uninstall it and free up these megabytes. To do this, just click on the app.

After that, you will see a page with information about the selected application. In order to uninstall this application, simply click on the "Uninstall program" button.

After uninstalling the application, the memory that it occupied is freed up and you can use it for other needs.

Method number 2. Clearing the cache.

Another fairly effective way to free up used memory on an iPhone is to clear the cache. Many applications cache the data they download from the Internet. Because of this, over time, a large amount of unnecessary data accumulates in the iPhone's memory.

You can clear the application cache through its settings. For example, consider such a popular application as Vkontakte. If you start this application and go to its settings, then there will be a button "Delete cache". In my case, clearing the cache in the Vkontakte application freed up almost 500 megabytes of memory.

Also, the ability to clear the cache is in many other applications that work with the Internet. For example, you can clear the cache in the Safari browser. To do this, go to the iPhone settings, go to the "Safari" section and click on the "Clear history and site data" button.

If the application does not have a special function for clearing the cache, or if the cache is not completely deleted, then you can uninstall the application and then reinstall it. In this case, all cache files of the application will be deleted, and you will free the memory that they used to occupy.

Method number 3. PhoneClean program.

If you have done all of the above, but you still have not managed to free enough memory in the iPhone storage, then you can resort to using the PhoneClean program. This program is designed to clear iPhone memory. PhoneClean is available in free and paid versions, you can install it on your Windows computer or Mac. You can download PhoneClean.

PhoneClean is easy to use. Run it on your computer, then connect your iPhone to your computer. Then you need to go to the "Quick Clean" tab and click on the "Scan" button.

After scanning, PhoneClean will offer to delete the found temporary files. Click on the "Clean" button to confirm the deletion of these files. In our case, use this program to free 70 megabytes of memory.

If PhoneClean cannot find your iPhone, then you probably have some kind of connection or driver problems. Try reconnecting your iPhone and launching iTunes, then return to PhoneClean. Perhaps this will solve the connection problems.

Content

Lack of free memory in the device is the main problem of many mobile phones. Modern gadgets allow downloading various applications, videos, screenshots, games, which is why the user does not limit himself in content. But soon the phone clogs up, which leads to inhibitions in its work.

How to free up memory on iPhone manually

Few owners know how to clear the memory of an iPhone without deleting everything. Temporary files that are no longer in use can take up several gigabytes on your phone. To make the iPhone work faster, it is advisable to remove unnecessary garbage. This requires more frequent forced reboots. To reinstall the system, simultaneously hold down the Home button and the power button. Keep holding them until the Apple logo appears on the screen. During this action, some temporary files will be deleted on their own.

Removing unnecessary applications

The longer your mobile device is used, the more debris accumulates in it. How can you clear the memory on your iPhone to save the files you need? First you need to get rid of unnecessary programs that take up the most space. In the settings there is a function for sorting applications, which are shown depending on the frequency of their use. Remove programs that you rarely used, and they are not at the top of the list.

As a rule, users regularly use only 5-6 applications, the rest - from time to time. Don't regret the remote application. At any time, if necessary, it is easy to download and install it again in the updated version. Some programs, such as Viber or Facebook, are recommended to be reinstalled periodically to free up memory on the phone.

Remove messages on iPhone

When the question arose of how to clear the memory on an iPhone, first of all, you should delete old messages. To do this, you need to do the following:

1. Open the "Messages" section. The icon looks like a green square with a white cloud inside.
2. Select the contact whose messages you no longer need. Delete all or one notification from this number to choose from.
3. Delete message threads. To do this, go to Applications, then select Messages. Then click the "Change" button, select the unnecessary correspondence and delete.

Removing obsolete content

If you erase the content completely, then the question will no longer arise how to clean the iPhone from garbage. It's easy to do in just five steps:

• go to "Settings" - "General" - "Reset";
• find "Erase Content";
• if the lock password was originally set, then it must be entered;
• confirm the device's request for deletion 2 times;
• make sure that the iPhone is charged, if the battery runs out during erasing, then you may need to restore the gadget using iTunes.

How to clear iPhone memory in browser cache

How else to clear memory on iPhone? Clearing the cache from the Safari browser will free up space where temporary data was stored due to visiting some Internet resources. Go to "Settings", find the inscription "Safari" in the list, click on it. In the browser settings, find and click the line "clear history and all site data." In the pop-up window, do not forget to confirm the action again. After deleting data, the previous menu items will immediately become inactive and change blue to gray. This means that this memory is empty.

How to free up space on your iPhone

A few years ago, 16 GB of internal memory was enough for iPhone owners. Now more and more users are asking how to clean the iPhone from garbage, because photos and applications began to weigh much more, and disk space runs out quickly. In order not to overload your phone memory, use the free cloud storage, where you can upload photos in any amount and quantity. For these purposes, the use of unlimited storage "Google Photos" is suitable.

Iphone sync with icloud

Before you clear the memory on your iPhone, save the contacts you need in your phone. It's easy to do if you upload them to the iCloud service. To do this, turn on the toggle switch in your device opposite the "Contacts" button to enable synchronization. For important information to be in the iCloud service, you need any access to the Internet. When the notification "Contacts will be in iCloud" pops up, click on the "Merge" button. You can see how successful the process was if you go to the official website of the iCloud service.

Disable Photo Stream

For some iPhone owners, the Photo Stream album is not needed, since photos from the Camera Roll album are automatically copied into it, taking the right place. It is created on the phone by the iCloud program to upload new photos and immediately send them over the Internet to all your Apple gadgets. How to clean iPhone memory by removing unnecessary album?

1. Open the settings. Find the iCloud section.
2. Find the item "Photos". Open Photo Stream.
3. Disable this option. Returning an album is easy using the same method.

Listening to music online

Lack of memory can be compensated by using valuable advice: listen to your favorite music online. Use online storages to listen to tracks. This service is available in the clients of social networks Vkontakte or Odnoklassniki. A variety of topical tracks and convenient music storage are provided by the Russian service Yandex.

You can listen to music online through the iCloud application, since now low tariffs for mobile Internet, which provide an excellent opportunity to pay for a large amount of traffic without problems. If you can't completely refuse your favorite tracks, then sort your music collection in the media library by deleting the unloved works to get several GB of free space.

Program for cleaning iPhone from garbage

When iPhone memory is full, and updates and self-cleaning do not give good results, PhoneClean will help solve the problem of cluttering the file system with garbage. This is a free utility that will speed up the performance of smartphones and tablets by deleting temporary and unused files. Instructions on how to use a special program:

• download the PhoneClean utility;
• run it on your computer;
• connect your smartphone to a PC using a USB cable;
• start scanning files;
• the utility will identify unnecessary files;
• complex cleaning of RAM will end in a few minutes.

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