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MajorGeeks.Com » Overview» Tutorials and Video Guides » How to Free up iPhone Space by Deleting 'Other' Storage

How to Free up iPhone Space by Deleting 'Other' Storage

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 06/15/2023

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The modern iPhone can use up a lot of storage space for videos, photos, and music. Removing these files is easy enough, but if you need more space on your iPhone, you might be surprised at how much space is being wasted in a category called "Other." We can even clean up enough space to stop Apple from nagging you to buy more iCloud storage.

The interesting part about the easy to ignore 'Other' category is that your iPhone saves videos, photos, and attachments in your sent or received messages for one year. Considering the number of multimedia we consume, you might be wasting gigabytes of the iPhone storage.

You might also be surprised if you have run out of iCloud storage for backups, that the saved videos, photos, and attachments in your messages are likely using all of your iCloud space.

Clean up Other Storage

Click on Settings > General > iPhone Storage.



Scroll down and click on Messages.

You can see how much totals space is used for Documents & data.

You can next review large attachments to free up space quickly or scroll down further, and you can manually delete Top conversations, Photos, Videos, GIFs and Stickers, and Other.



We spent a little time in Photos and Videos deleting tons of old message attachments from the past year. Don't let the size fool you. It might appear, for example, that I am using 331.9 MB of storage, but in reality, it was 3.8GB of my 5GB free iCloud space.

The part that angers me here is when Apple nags you to buy more storage space while they're the ones wasting your space in the background. You can disable Message backups if you don't need a year of message backups.

Click Start > Your Apple Name > iCloud. Click on Manage Storage.

Click on Messages.



Click on Disable & Delete.



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