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Music composed by Will Davenport, arranged by D. Griffin Jones
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Offload unused apps
1:44 Photos
3:04 Messages
4:18 Music
4:48 Podcasts
If your #Apple #iPhone storage is full, you’ll need to quickly clear up space. You don’t need to panic and delete all your pictures — there are easy ways to free up iPhone storage without losing any precious data forever.
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if your iPhone storage is full you'll
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need to quickly clear up some space but
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don't panic and delete all your photos
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there are easy ways to free up iPhone
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storage without losing your precious
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data forever let me show you
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how before you start it's important to
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know what you're working with go to
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settings General iPhone storage and
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you'll see a breakdown of how much space
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is being used on your phone and by what
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category next you'll see a list of
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personal recommendations which we'll get
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to soon and a list of the apps that are
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taking up the most space on your phone
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right from here you can tap on any one
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of these apps and tap delete app to
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clear it out alternatively you can
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choose to offload the apps that you
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don't use very often this deletes the
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bulk of the app from your phone but
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keeps personal data like signin
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information game progress and cached
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files and it keeps the icon on your home
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screen the next time you you launch the
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app it'll download the rest of it back
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down from the App Store and launch right
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where you left off you can enable this
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right next to offload unused apps by
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tapping enable and if you don't see this
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setting here you can also find it in
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settings apps app store if you scroll
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down a little ways keep in mind that
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because it deletes part of the app from
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your phone you shouldn't offload apps
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that you need to use where you may not
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have a good cell connection ticketing an
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event apps public transportation apps
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airline apps safe bets are big 3D games
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like Pokémon go or Asphalt 8 they can
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take up gigabytes or more of space and
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aren't really essential what's probably
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taking up the most space on your phone
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is your photos go back to settings apps
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photos to manage your library and I
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cannot recommend enough enabling iCloud
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photos just 9 cents a month is all it
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costs for most most people to back up
2:01
your entire photo library with iCloud
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photos enabled select optimize iPhone
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storage all your photos and videos will
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be synced up to the cloud freeing up
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space on your phone as it needs to it'll
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still keep the photos and videos you
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look at most often along with all your
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recent shots but it'll dynamically make
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space in the background you can still
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browse through your entire library but
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if you go to play a video that you don't
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have on your phone it'll quickly stream
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it from the cloud if this is your first
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time with iCloud photos enabled it will
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take time for this storage to clear up
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uploading gigabytes and gigabytes of
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data won't happen within minutes just
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leave your phone plugged in connected to
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Wi-Fi and the upload will happen in the
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background the next biggest thing taking
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up space on your phone probably is
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messages now text messages themselves
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take up virtually no space at all 99% of
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the storage space used by messages is in
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the videos pictures G gifts stickers and
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other attachments and files that you
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send go to settings General iPhone
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storage messages and tap video to see
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the top videos taking up space in your
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library you can tap on a video to
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preview it if there's one you'd like to
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make sure you save to your library tap
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the share button and tap save video as
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The Unofficial videographer in my family
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most of these videos are already in my
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library so I can comfortably delete most
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of them swipe left to delete it or tap
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the edit button at the top to select
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several at once to clear out other old
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attachments go back and tap on photos
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gifts and stickers and other to clear
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out the other large attachments you may
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have built up over time you can also tap
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top conversations to delete your entire
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messaging history with a particular
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person or group I don't recommend this
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because I value having a searchable
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message history but you can do this if
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you really want if you really don't care
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about old texts being deleted
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you can have them cleared out
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automatically over time go to settings
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apps messages and scroll down to keep
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messages change it from forever to one
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year and your entire backlog will be
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erased and it'll continue to clear out
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old messages as time goes on if you use
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apple music your music library is
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probably the next biggest thing taking
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up space on your phone go to settings
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apps music and enable optimize storage
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it'll only keep the tracks and albums
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that you listen to most frequently but
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here you can actually control the size
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of that local cache of music go to
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minimum storage and you can make sure it
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has no less than 4 8 16 32 or 64 gigabyt
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of music stored locally finally if you
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subscribe to more podcasts that you can
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keep up with you can automatically limit
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the number of episodes that your phone
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downloads at any one time go to settings
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apps podcasts automatically download
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after setting a limit your phone will
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tell you how many episodes this will
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remove tap remove downloads to clear
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them out if you're listening habits vary
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for different shows maybe there's one
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podcast where you only listen to the
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most recent episode and another podcast
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where you make sure you listen to every
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single one in order you can actually
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change these on an individual basis go
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to the podcast app tap the library tab
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tap on a specific show tap the three
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dots menu in the upper right tap
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settings and tap automatically download
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you can customize the settings for this
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show specifically so that is my best
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advice for how to quickly clean up
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storage space on your iPhone remember to
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like And subscribe I'm driffin Jones
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