The storage almost full notification on your iphone can be frustrating to deal with.
What is classified as media on iphone storage.
When connected to itunes you can see a graph of your iphone or ipad s storage categories in the device summary section.
If you re someone who likes to take a lot of photos stream a lot of music or watch a lot of videos your iphone may end up dedicating a lot of storage space to files classified as other.
Media storage the amount of storage taken up on your iphone ipad or ipod touch by photos videos animated gifs and vines in your timeline.
The first thing that i was considering was to delete some large game apps.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
But when i connected to my computer i noticed that an other bar was consuming 5 9 gb of my iphone s 13 57 gb.
Iphone storage what does the blue media bar represent exactly.
Photos appear to have their own bar.
At the top of the screen you ll see a bar.
To see how much storage all your apps and data are taking up on your iphone s storage open the settings app select general then iphone storage.
Next navigate to settings general iphone storage.
Here you ll see exactly how much space is being taken up by all the media on your phone.
Ios11 shows about 4gb of media on my phone yet i deleted all videos and all but one song.
Here s what twitter uses media and web storage for.
How to check your iphone or ipad s storage space using itunes on pc and macos mojave and older.
How do i trim media.
Apps photos media songs and videos and.
The easiest solution is to upload them to your computer or back them up to a cloud storage service.
Frankly i rarely cared about the free space on my iphone until it ran out today and my iphone warned me to release some space.
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Once that is done you can delete all the unnecessary photos from your device.
Connect your iphone to your computer.
Settings files system data and siri voices also fall into the category of other but those files typically won t take up as much space as cached data.
Fortunately there are a number of ways that you can save storage space.
For most ios users photos constitute one of the biggest chunks of storage date.