3 Things Tech Experts Say You Should Do ASAP To Clear Up Storage On Your iPhone

If there’s one thing you can never get enough of on your iPhone — storage space — then it’s important to take some simple steps to regain space. The obvious way to get more storage space on your phone is to purchase it. But if you aren’t properly maintaining your phone, clearing it of apps you no longer use, and getting into some good storage-clearing habits, you’ll wind up parched for space at some point again and needing to dole out even more money for even more storage. 

You can get off the storage-buying treadmill and avoid seeing those annoying “storage space full” pop-ups, which always seem to come around just as you need to use your phone to do something important. Experts recommend doing these three things ASAP to clear up storage on your iPhone.

The first step you should take is to identify which apps are taking up the most storage on your phone. Although some apps, like Photos, will be a major culprit for most of us, the source of your storage space depletion could be different from that of your friend. Go to Settings > General > [Device] Storage. Here you’ll find a list of Apple’s recommendations for optimizing your phone’s storage. And below that you’ll find a list of apps on your phone and how much storage space each one is using. If you tap on the apps’ name you can learn even more about the ways it uses up storage. Now you have a sometimes difficult choice to make: should you delete the app? If you’re really desperate for more space, getting rid of some of your most resource-intensive apps is one of the best ways you can gain back much-needed space.