Many Apple iPhone users face storage problems around the world. Though, the iPhone comes with a high storage capacity, there are many factors due to which it gets full in a short period of time.
Many iPhone users get frustrated as they fail to run many apps and function things as the storage is full and ‘Storage Almost Full’ alert pops up every now and then.
Users commonly delete apps, videos, pictures or music files to free up space in their iPhone. But, there is another category of storage on your phone called ‘System Data’ that also has a hand in making your storage full.
So, if you are facing storage issues even after deleting unnecessary apps, videos, images and other files then take a look at the following factors and free some extra space in your iPhone.
‘System Data’ storage is usually local data that individuals need to complete their specific tasks. You can find it in the home file system that is specifically for user data. System Data storage, is also known as ‘others’ for older iPhone versions.
How to see how much space ‘System Data’ has used on your iPhone?
First you need to clear the Safari cache. To clear the Safari cache, follow the steps below.
Auto-delete messages
You can free up space by deleting unnecessary messages or old messages.
Offload apps
You can free up a considerable amount of storage by deleting apps that are not necessary or apps that come in handy very rarely. For these types of apps, you can just offload these apps. Note that when you offload an app, the app itself is deleted, freeing up space, but the app’s data is saved. So, you don’t need to download it again to install the app. You can just reinstall the app as the data is still there and you can continue as if the app was there all along.
You should also delete cache in the form of photos, audio and videos by social media apps to free a large amount of space. These caches were generally created so that the images and video would not buffer while playback or opening.
However, there is no automatic way to clear the cache of these apps, but a user can do it manually.