There are more and more GB and even Tb that we have on our iPhone. For example, with the iPhone 13 Pro Max we can have up to 1 Tb of internal memory. Apart from the internal memory, we also have at our disposal the online service of iCloud, is the service called iCloud. Just by signing up for iCloud you get 5 GB of free storage. If you need more storage or want to enjoy premium features, you can upgrade the plan to iCloud+.
In Spain we can count on 2 Tb for only 9 euros a month. If we also have 1 Tb of internal storage, we can have a huge amount of data to store all our photos, videos, music, applications... However, technology advances and all these files weigh more and more. The reason is that photos, videos, and music are increasingly of higher quality, and therefore take up more space.
For all these reasons, we are going to explain how you can free up space on your apple device. And it is that perhaps you do not want to contract anything extra in the cloud or you simply have everything contracted to the maximum capacity and what you simply want is to get rid of those files that are useless and only take up space.
Free up iCloud space
Backup apps
Many iOS apps automatically perform iCloud backups when they are installed. You can reduce the size of your iCloud Backup and free up space by turning off backups for apps you don't use or by deleting old iCloud backups.
To change these settings, go to iCloud, Manage Storage, Backup, and tap the name of the device you're using. Then turn off apps you don't want to include in the backup, choose disable and delete.
When you confirm that you want to turn off and delete an app, iCloud Backup for that app will be turned off and all of its iCloud information will be deleted.
Photos and videos app Photos
If you delete photos and videos that you no longer need Photos app on any of your devices, you'll free up space in iCloud. This is the option that can free up space the most since some videos can take up several GB. Before you delete anything, back up any photos and videos you want to keep. If you use iCloud Photos and delete a photo or video from one device, it's also deleted from all other devices where you're signed in with the same Apple ID.
To delete photos and videos from iCloud Photos, follow these steps: Open the Photos app, then tap Photos at the bottom of the screen. Then touch Select and choose one or more photos or videos that you want to delete. Finally, press “delete” and then “delete photo”. Easy and simple.
WhatsApp is a veritable dump of documents, photos, videos, audios and a long etcetera of files that are sent to us, many times, involuntarily. Can accumulate hundreds of GB if we get careless. Sometimes the easiest option is to turn off the “automatic download” option and choose for ourselves what we want to see and download.
However, if we have not done this a priori we will already have thousands of files downloaded, most of them useless. For this, we will have to access the "Settings" tab of the application and enter the "Storage use" section. We will be ordered from largest to smallest, with which we will have all our individual and group chats. By clicking on one of them we can see what it contains and the space that each of them occupies. In addition, we can select what we want to delete. You will see how you free up a large amount of space on your iPhone.
Applications
As in the previous section, we can also manually remove apps that we no longer use. We can also see the list ordered from largest to smallest size. If we click on one of them we will see more details of the space they occupy, and we will have two options: uninstall the application, keeping its data, or delete everything, application and data, so that there is no trace of it. Be careful, if we delete the application data we will lose the password and other valuable data. So think about it.
So far we have discussed what are the best ways to get rid of all those files and applications without having to install anything at all. After doing all these steps, I'm sure you have freed up a lot of space and you no longer have any problem to store any file.