Your phone uses its built-in storage to speed up lots of everyday things for you. For example, instead of having to download videos every time you look at them, your phone will store those on its internal storage.
That means you can then see them instantly instead of having to wait, and can access them even when you don’t have any internet access.
This also uses a lot less battery than having to download them every time!
However, when your storage gets full, this no longer works properly. You’ll start to notice
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This guide will help you fix this once and for all!
If your phone gets so full it completely stops working, there are a bunch of quick things you can do to get it back to a working state. From that point, you’ll then be able to Picnic to stay on top of deleting screenshots, photos & videos you no longer need – and keep your phone storage nice and clean.
To check how much phone storage you currently have follow these steps.
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6 quick and easy steps you can take to free up space right now
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Clean up “Recently Deleted” folder in Photos app
When you delete photos & videos, the files are not actually deleted instantly. This exists so that you can restore any photos that you might have accidentally deleted.
However this also means that the photos you thought were deleted are still using up space on your phone!
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Go to Recently Deleted folder in the Photos app.
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Press the Select button
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Press 3-dots button and tap Delete All in the menu that pops up.
Check iPhone Storage cleanup recommendations
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Open the Settings app
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Go to General settings
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