7 Best Ways to Clean Up Your iPhone Storage (2024)

In this video, I'm sharing 7 proven ways to clean up iPhone storage. 📱Whether you want to clean up your iPhone storage for better performance or just need to make room for more photos and videos, these tips have got you covered.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Analyze Your iPhone Storage
02:08 Clear Browsing Cache
03:04 Clear App Cache on iPhone
04:23 Delete Duplicate Photos and Videos
05:20 Offload Unused Apps
06:32 Delete Attachments in iMessage
07:35 iCloud to Free Up Space
08:40 Delete Duplicate Contacts

Before You Start: Analyze Your iPhone Storage

The first step to freeing up iPhone storage space is understanding what's taking up all that space. Here's how to do it:

1. Open Settings on your iPhone.
2. Tap General.
3. Tap iPhone Storage.
4. Here, you'll see a colorful breakdown of how your storage is being used: apps, photos, music, and the mysterious "System Data" or "Other" category. This menu also offers some built-in tools to help you clean up iPhone storage:

- Offload Unused Apps: This removes apps you don't use often but keeps their data, so you can re-download them later and pick up where you left off.
- iCloud Storage: (if you use iCloud) You can enable this to store photos and videos in the cloud, freeing up valuable space on your device.
- Review Large Attachments: This lets you see and delete large files sent or received in Messages.

Take a moment to explore these options and see if any can help you free up iPhone storage space right away!

What is "System Data" or "Other" and How Can I Clear It?

This category includes files your iPhone needs to function smoothly: temporary files, caches, logs, etc. They're essential but can accumulate over time. We'll show you how to clear some of these files to significantly clean up iPhone storage.

7 Ways to Free Up iPhone Storage Space:

📱Clear iPhone Browser Data - Clear the history, cache, and cookies from your browsers.
Open Settings - Safari - Clear History and Website Data
Note: Remember, this will log you out of websites unless your info is saved in iCloud Keychain.

📱Clear iPhone App Cache - Think of app cache as the junk drawer of your phone that needs cleaning.
Three options to clear iPhone storage:
- Clear cache within the app (e.g., TikTok, Amazon)
- Delete and reinstall the app (foolproof, but more work)
- Consider if you need the app at all

📱Clear iPhone Duplicate Photos & Videos - Free up iPhone storage space by removing duplicate photos and videos.
1. Open Photos - Utilities - Duplicates and merge them.
2. Pro Tip: Check out the iOS Cleaner app (link below) to easily clean up iPhone storage!

📱App Offloading - The best way to free up space without losing app data.
1. Go to Settings - General - iPhone Storage and offload apps you don't use often.
2. You can always re-download them later and pick up where you left off.

📱Remove Large iMessage Attachments - Photos, videos, etc., sent via text can eat up tons of space.
Head to Settings - General - iPhone Storage - iMessage to review and delete large attachments.

📱Use iCloud Storage - This is the best way to free up the MOST iPhone storage space at once.
1. Store photos, messages, contacts, etc. in the cloud.
2. Enable "Optimize iPhone Storage" to keep low-res versions on your phone and originals in iCloud.

📱Delete Duplicate Contacts:
Open Contacts app, tap "View Duplicates," and merge them.

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Timestamps:
00:23 Analyze Your iPhone Storage
02:08 Clear Browsing Cache
03:04 Clear App Cache on iPhone
04:23 Delete Duplicate Photos and Videos
05:20 Offload Unused Apps
06:32 Delete Attachments in iMessage
07:35 iCloud to Free Up Space
08:40 Delete Duplicate Contacts

[AxelMetayer]

Cool Tipps to free some space on the iphone thanks! Didn't know about the imessage cleaning.

[alina-m]

Your methods worked like a charm. I cleared 30GB of data from my iPhone! Thanks so much!

[hannamayer]

I was struggling with low storage, but your guide helped me clear out a ton of unnecessary data on my iPhone 12. Appreciate it!

[martarivera]

Excellent information!! Thanks a bundle.
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[manglemut]

Thankyou for a Fabulous Video ! so helpful and it works a treat ... you really have the best voice, and presentation skills for this & i, m thinking that you should go onto radio Or even TV presentation. you would really make the cut

[lisamiller]

When deleting message attachments that I have sent to others, will it delete the original from my photos or videos? Or just from the file within the storage for the messaging app?

[andrewysk]

Can you recommend a good free iPhone storage cleaner app that works well? I have a lot of junk photos and I dunno how to sort them out...

[jeffcochin]

For clearing iMessage attachments, will it delete them from all my devices or just my iPhone?

[dariak]

It looks like most of my space is taken by Applications. Are there any methods to clean up storage without actually deleting the apps?