iPhone & iCloud Storage - Making Space and Saving Files

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iPhone Storage

Check your iPhone's storage capacity and usage. *If your storage is close to full in the future you might want to buy an iPhone with more internal storage.

1. Open Settings

2. Tap General

3. Tap iPhone Storage

4. Look at the bar graph

Follow any suggestions given to save space, if needed.

Below is a list of all the apps and the total storage used by each one including the related data.

Turning on/off Offload Unused Apps - Any apps you haven't used within a month or more will be temporarily unloaded from you phone (notice the cloud beside the app name). When you tap on the app, it will download and be reinstalled for you to use. You don't loose any data related to the app but you might have to sign into the app again. This is useful if you've downloaded apps, don't use them and forget to remove them.

1. Open Settings -> scroll down to Apps

2. Go to the App Store

3. Find the option to turn On/Off Offload Unused Apps

Check your iCloud Storage - This is remote storage in the Cloud at Apple. You get 5GB free but need to pay monthly if you exceed that.

1. Open Settings

2. Tap your Name on top

3. Tap iCloud

4. Tap Storage

5. Information about the total free and used storage will show including which apps take up the most storage.

Need to free up iCloud storage space? 

Check backups to be sure you don't have old backups from unused devices saved. 

Check your Messages (texts) where normally all the photos/videos people send are taking up valuable storage. If you tap Messages you can see Manage Storage where it will show you the media taking up space so you can choose to delete them. Also beside Keep Messages, change Forever to 1 year or 30 days to automatically purge your messages.

Look for duplicate photos/videos in your photo gallery.

1. Open the photo gallery

2. Scroll down to Utilites

3. If you have duplicates, you will see the category

4. Review the duplicates and merge/delete as needed.

Save Files, Documents, PDFs, Tickets, etc to your device (no internet connection needed) or the Cloud (infinite storage for a fee)

  1. When you open a document, tap the up arrow out of the box to get see options.
  2. Choose Save to Files
  3. In the screen that appears tap the top left till you see Browse
  4. Locations will display iCloud Drive and On My iPhone
  5. Choose your preferred location
  6. Make a new folder if needed to organize the type of file by tapping the 3 dots on the top right.
  7. Name the file on the bottom, be specific so you can find/search for it easily in the future
  8. Tap Save on the top right.
Remember, it's easy to save anything you see on the screen as a PDF and file it in Files using print->tap the arrow out of the box on the top right.
1. Have what you want to have on the screen
2. Tap the arrow pointing out of the box
3. Choose Print
4.Tap the arrow pointing out of the box on the top
5, Choose Save to Files
6. Give your PDF a name and choose where to save it
7. Your PDF is created and saved
8. Access it by tapping the Files icon


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