If your iPhone has little storage space left, when you are about to download some apps from AppStore, you will receive a pop-up warning message “Your device does not have enough available storage to install this app.” In addition, this iPhone can’t install new iOS software updates because it requires more available storage during the installation process. At this time, iPhone will prompt you to clear the storage space of your iPhone, but how can you get or release more storage space without deleting important app data?
1. Move photos and video to the computer or iCloud
If you have a computer with enough storage space, you can move all photos and videos to the computer. Connect your iPhone with the computer, open Photos application to transfer, and then delete them from the iPhone device. Or you can enable iCloud for Photos to store photos and video on the iCloud Drive.(Go to iPhone Settings -> Photos -> enable iCloud Photos)
2. Delete and reinstall large Apps
Some social app takes up lots of iPhone storage, delete it and reinstall from AppStore will save many iPhone storage. Before that, we need to check and save some important app documents and data to the computer or other place. Use Delete App, not Offload App option to remove app in the iPhone storage manage feature. (Go to iPhone Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage -> tap an app-> tap Delete App)
3. Find large apps and files on the iPhone storage
If your iPhone currently does not have a lot of Apps and photos, but it still has no available storage space. We meed to find and check if there are some large files takes up the iPhone storage. Here we can use a third-party application - iPhone Cleaner to scan and find hidden large app files on the iPhone.
You can use it download large files from the iPhone device to the computer to view before deleting from the iPhone.
4. Delete junk files from iOS system and apps
If there are many iOS system cache data, app crash logs and other resources on your iPhone, the “Other” storage will take a lot of iPhone storage space. To remove those junk files from iOS system and apps, you can use iPhone Cleaner to scan and delete them.
5. Backup and restore iPhone device
Make an iPhone local backup with the computer with iTunes or Finder on Mac, and reset all content data on the iPhone, and then restore the iPhone backup to the iPhone drive. It will remove many iPhone applications caches and unnecessary iOS system resources.
Make an iPhone local backup with the computer with iTunes or Finder on Mac, and reset all content data on the iPhone, and then restore the iPhone backup to the iPhone drive. It will remove many iPhone applications caches and unnecessary iOS system resources.
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