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.
What is classified as media on iphone storage.
Iphone storage what does the blue media bar represent exactly.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
Connect your iphone to your computer.
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.
Next navigate to settings general iphone storage.
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.
The easiest solution is to upload them to your computer or back them up to a cloud storage service.
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.
Ios11 shows about 4gb of media on my phone yet i deleted all videos and all but one song.
Photos appear to have their own bar.
This is where you will distinctly see how much space the other category is using.
Here s what twitter uses media and web storage for.
4 to delete twitter s media caches tap media.
The storage almost full notification on your iphone can be frustrating to deal with.
How to check your iphone or ipad s storage space using itunes on pc and macos mojave and older.
Apps photos media songs and videos and.
At the top of the screen you ll see a bar.
When connected to itunes you can see a graph of your iphone or ipad s storage categories in the device summary section.
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.
Once that is done you can delete all the unnecessary photos from your device.
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Fortunately there are a number of ways that you can save storage space.
How do i trim media.
For most ios users photos constitute one of the biggest chunks of storage date.
The first thing that i was considering was to delete some large game apps.