Trio effortless ways to free up space on your iPhone

These three effortless tricks will help to free GIGABYTES of storage on your Apple iPhone

Running brief of storage is a common problem amongst smartphone owners.

Hundreds of enraged users flooded Twitter earlier this year when Apple exposed its latest iOS update required some 6GB of free space to install.

If you find yourself permanently dismissing a low storage warning on your iPhone, it could be time for some housecleaning.

Express.co.uk has rounded up three quick storage-saving tips.

#1 Head In The Clouds

Do you know which apps or services are munching your memory?

It might not be what you expect.

Navigate to the Settings App, then tap on General

Navigate to the Settings App on your iPhone, then tap General > Usage, and then tap the Manage Storage tab with the Storage menu.

After a brief wait, this will generate a list of all the apps which are hogging your storage.

As the screenshot shows, using my iPhone as my primary camera has also had an influence on the available storage.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, Apple’s fresh iCloud Photo Library could suggest a viable solution.

The cloud storage services permits you to offload your high resolution pictures to Apple’s servers.

Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive also suggest similar solution, albeit the taut integration inbetween iCloud Photo Library and the iOS operating system gives it an edge over the competition.

Any cloud-based libraries will sync photographs and movies across your devices, including Mac computers, iPhone, iPads and iCloud.com.

iCloud permits you to offload your photos to Apple's servers – but it is not the cheapest option

If you find yourself permanently dismissing a low storage warning on your iPhone, it could be time for some housecleaning

Snap a picture or movie on your iPhone and it will show up on your Mac instantly.

Edits are also synced across Apple devices, which means if you brighten a photo, or shorten a movie clip on your iPad, the latest version will be available to view on your iPhone and Mac.

Switches are non-destructive and can be undone on any of your iCloud Photo Library enabled devices.

Full-resolution files are stored on Apple’s servers but a fresh option – called "Optimise Storage" – will intelligently judge which photo size is most adequate for your device.

The idea behind the feature is ordinary: If you’re quickly scrolling through old family photos on an iPhone – you do not need to be viewing a hefty 42megapixel file.

The library you see on your Apple gadget is dependent on how much available storage is left on your device.

If it’s running low, Photos will substitute full-resolution photos with smaller files – beginning with the oldest photos in the library.

Other apps prone to hog your storage are heavyweight games, like Grand Theft Auto and Infinity Blade.

Apps can quickly erect in size if you are downloading a lot of content within the software

#Two Cache (ah-ha) Saviour of the Universe

The iPhone usage statistics also exposes that Downcast – which is just 13.6MB upon initial download from the App Store – has swelled to Five.1GB in size.

The extra 5GB of storage can be accounted for by more than a year’s worth of podcast scenes, downloaded for offline listening.

Tapping on the apps exposes how much of the used storage is being taken up by the app’s ‘Documents and Data’.

Many mobile apps suggest granular controls with the in-app setting to permit users to purge this, for example, deleting the podcasts stored within the app you have already listened to.

But failing that, it is simply enough to delete the app totally and reinstall the software from the App Store.

Safari can also be a hidden menace to your memory.

Safari often stores away data to improve your practice – but this licks at your phone storage

As you browse the internet, pictures, metadata and movies are held on your smartphone without your skill.

To clear the cache in Apple’s Safari browser simply head to Settings > Safari then tap Clear History and Website Data.

Unluckily, this is not a ensured fix as the benefits will depend largely on how much you use the Safari browser.

If you use Chrome you might not notice a difference, but one Safari-dependent Reddit users reported the ordinary trick liberated up 6GB of data.

And if the Messages app is hogging all your free storage, you can go to Settings > Messages and then tell the app to delete all messages after 30 Days, or One Year.

HDR results in some stunning iPhone photography. Unluckily, its also hogs storage

#Trio High Dynamic Range Photography is Superb for the Family Album, Rubbish As A Space Saver

High Dynamic Range, or HDR, is a very useful feature in the iPhone camera.

As the name implies, HDR aims to add more dynamic range to your photographs, which is to say, find a balance inbetween the light and shade in pics.

The camera does this by taking three separate pictures – all at different exposures – and stitching together the results.

It can be exceptionally effective in low-light, or any situations with particularly harsh shadows.

Unluckily, iPhones save both an HDR version as well as the standard photograph.

As a result you may find your Photos app is clogged utter of duplicate pics.

To turn off the feature, go to Settings > Photos & Camera.

Scroll to the bottom of the menu and untick Keep Normal Photo.

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