9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

By Bhagyesh
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It can become a little embarrassing to run out phone storage will sharing files with your friends especially when you are using an iPhone.

And we know how frustrating it is to clear up storage space and not end up deleting important files. So here are some of the tips & tricks that would give you the much required 'SPACE'!

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Analyse your Usage

Before solving any problem you need to understand the real cause behind it. So to know which items are taking the most amount of storage in your phone just go to -General > Usage> Manage Storage.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Clear out Old Messages

First start by deleting all those unwanted old text messages because even these small texts can take up a lot of space over a period of time. It would be better you just set your iPhone to automatically delete old messages. Go to Settings > Messages > Keep Messages, you can select any option from 30 days to a year.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Delete Unused Apps/games

Apps & Games that are just sitting on your iPhone for over a month without a use need to go now. Some of these items especially the games can take a lot of space like Angry Birds & Candy Crush.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage
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Use Alternate Storage Services

There is alternate storage service like DropBox and Google+ available for free and provide some good storage facility. You can also use Apple's iCloud services.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Save only HDR photos

If you are using your iPhone's HDR function then your phone would be storing two images of the same photo. Well it works well in capturing Low light images and in shadows but takes up double the space.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

So all you got to do is go to your phone's Setting > Photo & Camera > Deselect - Keep Normal Photos

Turn Off the Photo Stream

Now Photo Stream basically syncs up your last 1000 photos across all your iOS devices. But this means taking double the space so we recommend unless you want to share photos from your iPad to iPhone, you turn it off. Go to Settings > Photos & Camera > Deselect My Photo Stream.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Remove Old Podcasts

Each Podcast weighs around 25MB, so if you have listened to an entire season then you will have quite a collection which could be heavy on storage. So we suggest you start deleting them by just swiping to the left of each podcast.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Clear Browsing History

Well every computing system has a history or a cache memory that needs to be freed from time to time. So just like a computer or iPad your iPhone too needs this clean up drive every once in a while. So if you are using Safari as your browser then go to Settings > Safari App > Clear History & Website Data.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage

Avoid Multiple Copies of Photos

Photo editing apps like Photoshop Touch & Instagram tend to store more than one copy of photos. So make sure you get rid of these extra copies of the same photo.

9 Expert Hacks To Improve Your Apple iPhone 6s Storage
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So, hope you have understood these tips & tricks and it would help you free up that space on your precious iPhone.

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