How to Get More Storage on iPhone in 2024

It’s a no-brainer that with WALTR, you can quickly fill up your device’s storage. Any movie or music could be added to your iPhone in seconds.

FYI, that’s how you can tell whether a person uses WALTR. Simply by analyzing their iPhone.

Either way, if your device doesn’t have much storage by default, finding some free space can become quite a hiccup.

How to Get More Storage on iPhone

There are still some cool & helpful tricks letting you quickly regain your storage Gigabytes. Most importantly, at least with some of the methods mentioned, you don’t need to remove any content from your device. So breathe out; your fave pet videos will stay where they are 🙂

Tip 1. Offload some files to your PC

Use AltTunes to offload photos, videos, and other files from your Apple device to your computer. You can safely store older photos on your computer's hard drive while taking new and fresh ones, thanks to the fresh extra storage. The app allows you to export tons of data from your iPhone to free up space. Just remember that it's not removing it from your iPhone, you still need to delete them manually.

You can install AltTunes and activate a 24-hour trial by requesting a code via email during the app's startup.

Tip 2. Take advantage of iCloud service

Free iCloud Library may not be too huge (5GB only), but still, it’s a good way to store your photos. Once you switch on the ‘Optimize Storage’ feature, all your photos in full resolution will be automatically saved in your iCloud Photo Library. Meanwhile, their small space-saving versions will be kept on your iPhone.

To turn the feature on, go to Settings > Photos > Optimize iPhone Storage

Tip 3. What’s inside the ‘Other’ folder?

You will notice the ‘Other’ folder in the Summary tab when connecting your iPhone to iTunes. It contains cached materials, messages, web browsing history, and other information.

You do not need to remove it manually—this is not how things work on iPhones. The cache gets removed on its own. But if the size of the ‘other’ folder is drastically huge, there’s a workaround to handle this.

Try removing the Messages data you’ve got on your iPhone. If you’ve been using iPhone for a long time, you might have gathered a nice chunk of them.

Go to Settings > Messages > Message History > Keep Messages, select a time parameter, then click Delete.

Tip 4. Update to a newer iOS via iTunes

Frequently, it happens – you can’t upgrade to the latest iOS because of the low storage capacity. Well, now try to update your iOS after connecting your iPhone to your machine.

Launch iTunes and select ‘Check for Update’ in the Summary plane. You’ll be able to install the latest iOS version via iTunes. This update may free up space that is usually taken by iOS files.

Tip 5. Change the formats of photos & videos taken

If you shoot your photos and videos at the default settings, you may find that your storage is dwindling much faster. That's because the iPhone is set to high quality by default. You can turn it down to preserve some more space on your iPhone.

Go to Settings > Camera and select the quality you prefer in Recording Video. In Formats, choose the Most Compatible format for photos.

Tip 6. The trick with iTunes Movie Store

One of the coolest and unexpected tricks was discovered in the Reddit thread. When you’re running low on storage, go to the iTunes Movie store and try to rent the movie. Keep in mind that it should take up more space than you have on your iPhone.

Of course, you will get declined, but check on your available storage. It should have grown by now.

We managed to free up only 200 MB on the iPhone we tested out. However, according to the comments in the original Reddit thread, some users saved up to 4 GB with this trick.

Don’t forget to let us know in the comments how it worked for you!

Tip 7. Resurrect the Legacy

This is the tip you won’t find anywhere but here. Turns out – a lot of people are having ‘oldie’ devices like iPod Classic or iPod Nano, or any other iPod at home without actually using them.

Remember what huge storage these devices have? They can hold gigantic music libraries. Thus, by moving your music to iPod, you can free up substantial storage space on your iPhone too.

The all-new WALTR PRO supports all the newest iPods, so adding some tunes to your old good iPod is a no-brainer.

Wrapping up

It amazes me how you can free up space on iOS without removing any of your content. If you are running low on storage, there are always some cool tricks to clear up space on your iPhone or iPad.

As a person with a huge Android history behind my back, this is what I like about iOS.

P.S. If you know some other tricks like the above, don’t hesitate to share them all in the comments section!