iPhone Storage Full? You can fix it right now...

Perhaps you've owned your iPhone for a little while now, and you've hit the dreaded 'storage full' message? It's infuriating, can stop you from using your phone how you'd like, and can even slow your phone down. The good news is that more often than not, it can be fixed, without you having to invest in a new phone! In this video, I'll show you how!

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Chapters;
0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Identifying the issue
2:20 - Delete old Apps
5:20 - Delete Downloaded Media
7:49 - Photos and Videos
9:50 - Delete Old Messages
11:11 - System Data
13:15 - Reset your Phone
14:05 - End

[AngusSA]

You are the man we all need to send our Moms to for tech information - you are so thorough and keep complex things simple! Thank you!!

[JimmyWatches]

I recently Reset both my iPad and a friend’s iPhone and then restored them from iCloud backups and this solved severe memory problems for both of us. Neither device had enough free space to download and install iOS updates before the reset. The iPad after restoring had about 30% free space and the iPhone over 50%. I’ve no idea what gremlins were hiding on the devices, but nothing else would free up much space.

[Zoddex]

Also for system data, I would add Telegram, all videos, photos, and audios are "cached" into the system data. It took me a while but I was able to find where that 40 GB of system data was coming from.

[RandyHanley]

Love your videos. They are practical and they don't tend to lean on the need for users to buy pricy apps or services. Great work!

[ZyliceLiddell]

8:17 If click on Photos in the Storage section of Settings, you can ‘Review Personal Videos’ which lets you see what videos are taking up the most space.

[doubledark]

would be great to revist this as iOS 18 looks different and the navigation steps have changed

[airborneg]

How do you get your iPhone messages to move to the iCloud instead of taking up space on the phone? I have it turned on for messages to be moved to the iCloud yet messages still take up gigs of space. Don’t want to delete as there are a lot of photos in the messages that I want to keep.

[popculture]

So my photos library is always larger. All the correct setting. But never is very small

[emiel]

True about the Samsung T7 SSD. I’m looking into these ones for a while to use one with my new MB and iPad Pro. Yes, Samsung manufacturers a lot of parts. Even for Apple. So people, please be kind, keep loving and stay safe!

[JennyZinaTavares]

Hello. I'd already done most of the things you said but went into WhatApp and deleted a bunch of media. That along saved almost 2 gigs of space. My phone doesn't allow me to delete voices. Thank you!

[jongreen]

Thanks to your Videos, i update things like this regularly, as i do for my Wifes phone. However i do have an annoying problem with my desktop. my Sonoma is constantly on the hour giving me time reminders Pleeese how do i turn it off.

[Cjmboo]

ppl need to get the photos and videos out of the gallery if u put them on google photos or icloud i never run outa space even when i had a 64gb phone

[minglepc]

I did purchase the t7 shield, as well as an adapter for the iphone, but cannot figure out how to move anything to it. Is there a video on this?

[jonteau]

Very helpful video. I am a videographer and photographer primarily so it's often pictures and videos taking up space. Until I watched this I wasn't sure how best to manage my storage and keep my important files.

[dlucey]

Great video lots of tips. I’d add two things about resetting your device. First is to reset a device using finder or iTunes because that will wipe the operating system, everything else and it will download a clean copy of your OS. Erasing via your phone skips the re installation of OS which can help free up a device. Second is to sign out of iCloud before erasing it to avoid activation lock.

[peter.]

A really good concise review on apple storage 👍 🇬🇧

[hdsharp]

Just listened to your in-depth iCloud information so I have a question for you. I use Microsoft for Mac are these files saved to iCloud automatically too?

[Flukey_]

To be fair you should really mention to people that backing up photos to iCloud or any other cloud storage is way safer than storing all your photos on a physical device as if the device is lost damaged etc you loose your photos. Great video though

[cwhrlng]

Great video. Is there a way to make another cloud backup photos automatically instead of using iCloud? I know I can do it manually.

[richardgluck]

Thank you very much. With your instructions I was able to clear out over 10 GB on my 32 GB iPad, most of that was in the cache of the New York Times app.