How-to · iPhone & iPad

iPhone storage and photos, answered plainly.

Plain answers to common iPhone photo and storage questions, with Apple’s own free options first and every step checked against Apple Support.

How to free up storage on your iPhone

See what is using the space, use iOS’s own recommendations, then clean up photos.

The free Duplicates collection in Photos, what merging does, and what it leaves alone.

Recently Deleted keeps them for 30 days — and a couple of other reasons.

Free the space now, and what to check first, because it can’t be undone.

Stop taking them, what turning Live off in Edit does, and keeping only the still.

For application forms: what iOS offers, and a free way to get under the limit.

Convert the photos you have, and make the camera take JPGs from now on.

Free in-browser photo tools: compress to KB · resize · convert to JPG. On iPhone: Oxid Photos (coming to the App Store).