There's an old adage known as Parkinson's law that states work expands to fit the time available.
The same can be said of data stored on your phone. Once upon a time, we existed with 8GB or 16GB of storage on our devices and made do. Now, the top-tier iPhone comes with half a terabyte of storage.
Even if you haven't filled it up yet, there are a number of ways to Marie Kondo your phone and make 2020 a bit less stressful.
Let's start with the basics.
Remove apps you're not using
How many apps do you actually use on a day-to-day basis? Broadly speaking, the average user only interacts with about 10 per day. So, if you're not using the apps then they're just taking up space on your phone.
Apple has a delightfully simple way of automatically cleaning out unused apps via an option buried in the settings. To activate it, go to Settings then tap on iTunes & App Store and finally hit 'Offload Unused Apps'.
This will save the data and documents associated with the apps but remove the programs themselves. Alternatively, you can manually delete old apps by long pressing on the icon and hitting the 'x' that appears in the corner.
Automatically delete old messages
If you've racked up several years' worth of old messages – some with video, pictures or audio attached – you could be looking at a fair amount of clutter.
These can be quickly dispatched via an option to automatically delete messages that are either over 30 days old or over a year old. To activate this, tap on Settings then go to Messages and find the 'Keep Messages' option where you can select either a year or 30 days of deletion.
Clear out duplicate images
Apple doesn't have a tailored option to clear out duplicate photos, but there are some third-party options to save you manually backtracking through your photo stream to clear them out individually.
One of the higher-rated apps for handling this is a Mac app called Photos Duplicate Cleaner which will pull double-duty and clean your iPhone photos, providing you're using iCloud Photo Library.
You can also optimise the storage of photos you do keep on your phone. Basically, your iPhone can store them at a lower file size which means storing it at a lower resolution.
The higher resolution image will be stored on iCloud and whenever you go to look at the picture it will download from the cloud. All you have to do is go to your settings and scroll down to the photos app, then you will see the option 'Optimise iPhone Storage' on the menu.
Change your WhatsApp settings
When you download WhatsApp the app has a default setting of saving all the media sent into a chat to your memory. So you have the picture or video in your WhatsApp memory and again in your phone memory.
All you have to do to stop this is enter WhatsApp and click settings, then chats and then chose to not save media automatically to camera roll.
Also, check out how much memory a chat is costing you by clicking the chat name at the top of the conversation, and there you can decide to clear the chat's media in order to free up memory on your phone.
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