Free up iPhone space without deleting photos
Keep every photo and still get space back. Let iCloud hold the originals, shrink videos with HEVC, drop unused Live Photo motion and clear what is not a photo.
Guides for a full iPhone
Step-by-step answers to the storage questions people actually search for. Each guide shows the manual way with iOS's own tools first, then what DustFox does differently.
Is 128 GB or 256 GB enough on iPhone?
Work out the right iPhone storage from the phone you already have. How to read your current use, what grows fastest, and when 128 GB, 256 GB or more makes sense.
iPhone storage full even though you pay for iCloud?
iCloud storage and iPhone storage are two different things. Buying more iCloud does not add space to the phone. Here is what does, and what iCloud actually changes.
Do Live Photos take up more space? How to stop them
A Live Photo is a still plus a three-second video, often about half of its size. How to turn Live Photos off for good, and what to do with the ones you already have.
Compress iPhone videos without losing quality
Your iPhone records at a high bitrate because it encodes in real time. Re-encoding the same frames with HEVC makes the file smaller at the same resolution.
Not enough storage to update your iPhone? Fix it
When an iOS update will not fit, let iOS remove apps temporarily, delete a stuck download, update from a computer, or free a few gigabytes from your photo library.
What is System Data on iPhone, and can you shrink it?
System Data holds caches, logs, voices and indexes that iOS manages itself. No app can delete it. What it contains, when it shrinks, and what to clear instead.
How to delete duplicate photos on iPhone
Use the Duplicates album in Photos for exact copies and Bursts for burst shots. For near-identical retakes, group similar photos and keep the sharpest one.
Deleted photos but no space freed? Here is why
Deleted photos wait 30 days in Recently Deleted and keep using space. iCloud-only photos free iCloud storage, not device storage. How to get the space back.
How to empty Recently Deleted on iPhone
In Photos, open Collections, tap Recently Deleted under Utilities, unlock it and delete. Steps for iOS 26 and iOS 18, plus what to check before you empty it.
iPhone storage full? What to delete first
Empty Recently Deleted, then large videos, duplicates, screenshots and message attachments. The order that frees the most iPhone space with the least regret.
WhatsApp photos taking space on iPhone? Fix it
WhatsApp can keep one copy in the app and another in Photos. Turn off Save to Photos, clear WhatsApp storage, then clean the copies already in your library.
