Once finished you ll see an overview of the storage space taken up on your ios device at the top.
What is media on iphone 7 storage.
When you make itunes purchases on your iphone 7 or iphone 7 plus besides the music and video content the rest gets stored in documents and data.
The first big bite out of your of iphone or ipad storage is ios itself.
Thankfully there are plenty of quick and easy ways you can free up space on your iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus.
When you buy your iphone ipad or ipod touch it comes with a set storage capacity ranging from 16 to 512gb for iphone 16gb to 1tb for ipad and 8 to 256gb for ipod touch the music you buy the apps you download the photos you take and all of the other content that you enjoy on your device uses its storage.
Below we list the 3 biggest ways for you to manage space.
Here s some of what takes up your storage space.
If the purple media bar takes up a big chunk of your iphone s storage chart it might be time to start cleaning up a bit.
This could include thumbnail cache or related files that are not some kind of media files.
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.
Select optimize iphone storage to save space on your device.
With time your iphone 7 will accumulate a series of files including photos videos apps and needless files like junk files caches logs history.
At the top of the screen you ll see a bar.
With optimize storage smaller space saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original full resolution versions are stored in icloud.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
Apple has made ios and ipados smaller and more storage efficient over the years but it still takes up to 5 gb of space right off the top.
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.