How to survive a 16-gigabyte iPhone in our time

In the yard in 2015, the first, but Apple's, Google, and stubbornly continue to produce 16 GB models of smartphones as if mocking the users. For those who decided to save on buying a new iPhone, selecting a younger version, as well as those who are not planning to be updated, staying with an old smartphone, we have a survival guide.

Sixteen gigabytes - it is really very, very little, especially in view of the increased volume of iOS, photos, videos and, of course, applications and games. A few favorite albums, a couple of good toys, a photo archive for a few weeks - and free memory is gone. But do not worry, follow the tips below, and your life will be easier. At least a harmful plaque on the absence of free space will appear much less frequently.

Immediately pour all your photos and videos to the cloud

The most active eaters free space on the iPhone are the photos and videos. But do not rush to take pictures in a lower resolution, disable Live Photos, or even shoot fewer photos. Simply empty the place regularly unloading media files to the cloud.

Thanks to services such as "Google Photos"And Flickr, making it incredibly easy. Both have applications that support the startup of all photos and videos in the background, as well as unlimited free storage. The only drawback: you can not view old photos without the Internet, though hardly a big problem these days.

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Do not keep the music on your device, use streaming services

Similarly, we have to do and with the music. Occupy precious gigabytes of two-three albums (under the more you will hardly be able to carve out a place) completely useless. In 2015-m listen to music locally is not something that is not fashionable, and even a little silly.

Abundance streaming service lets you choose any to your taste and budget. Among them are shareware, such as, SpotifyWho, though with some tricks, it can be used on the territory of CIS. Some services (google Music and Apple Music), In addition to listening to your music directory, allows upload to a cloud of all your tracks and listen to them out without taking up space on the iPhone.

The maximum use of web

Now any service or social network has its own mobile apps, and most users consider it their duty to be sure to install them. This is fundamentally wrong.

To see the definition of an unfamiliar word, you do not need an application dictionary, and an article from the "Wikipedia" is not necessary to read in the application. For these purposes, as well as read news and other things you already have a user-friendly tool - the browser. Moreover, you can add to your desktop icons frequently visited sites and use them as a normal application. Considering that the average size of the applications from the App Store is about 100 MB, even if you opt out of 10 applications, the savings would be substantial.

Keep only those games that really play

The rule of "all my carry a" detrimental to the game lovers. New titles come out faster than we can take them. Add to this the sales and distribution of games that we used to download only because they are free. Now even the most simple arcade rarely takes less than 100-150 MB, not to mention the projects AAA-class, where the account goes on gigabytes.

Remove the toy immediately after passing, to make room for new ones, and do not hold a large amount of installed games. You are unlikely to play more than 3-5 at a time. In addition, if necessary, bought the game at any time to download from the App Store again.

Do not confuse the reading list with archive

Have a whole library in your pocket cool. But think about whether you need it? Books - this is not a song, they can not be read by tens of times. Literature does not take up as much space as the game, but still occupies.

Another point to which you should pay attention to fans to check out - it's reading list in Pocket. Service is supported almost everywhere, and we often misuse this convenience, dumping the mountain of articles, and rarely read them. Take a look at the settings and see how much space is occupied by cached files (I have 600 MB). Perhaps this will be an incentive for you to clean up the debris of interesting deferred until later.

Get rid of unnecessary junk

Plyushkin lives in each of us, and eventually the desktop of our iPhone so swollen from the icons of installed applications, in very advanced cases they can not even fit on there. Needless to say, that from time to time should be to audit and remove old and unused applications?

Less obvious fact, which many people forget (or do not even know), lies in the fact that many applications store a variety of files locally. So doing, for example, applications, streaming services, so you listen to it in the absence of the Internet. All this is well worth regularly removed through the corresponding option in the settings.

If the above recommendations described to you is not enough, you can go for more radical measures and see what content takes up the most space, and then remove it mercilessly. Benefit in iOS to do it quite comfortably.

In the "Basic" system settings there is an item "Storage and the iCloud", clearly representing the statistics of the occupied space and allows you to manage them manually.

Be bold, and let the free space you have never ends!