Pavel Jelic On an older iPhone with low storage, you may have run into a situation where you ran out of space on your iPhone. You may have already done all the steps to free up storage – delete apps, old messages and long videos that take up a lot of storage space. However, maybe even this is not enough for you. If you've deleted all the big apps, the next partition that takes up storage space is photos. There are several options for how you can deal with photos. There are several things you can do with photos to free up space. So let's take a look at them through this article.
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Optimized photo settings
If you use iCloud Photos on your iPhone, you'll love this feature. Because a single photo, even with Live Photo enabled, can take up your iPhone's storage right away several megabytes, so on older devices the storage can fill up relatively quickly, right after taking a few hundred photos. If you want to keep the photos on your iPhone and do not want to delete them from it, there is an option that allows you to reduce the size of the photos will decrease several times. The full version of the photos will still be stored on iCloud and they will be on your iPhone optimized pieces. To activate this feature, go to the native app on your iPhone or iPad Settings, where to get off below and click the tab with the name Fotky. Here, then under Photos on iCloud, choose the option Optimize iPhone storage. The photos are then uploaded to iCloud in full quality. Depending on the number of photos, this process can easily take several days. However, the result is worth it. On my iPhone, all the photos and videos took up about 40 GB of storage. After activating this feature, I got to a nice 3 GB.
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Photos on iCloud only
If the option mentioned above did not help you, then maybe you are starting to think about a more radical solution - deleting photos. However, in order not to lose all the photos on your iPhone, you can use an interesting trick. If you use Photos on iCloud, it is before deletion turn off. This will ensure that all the photos from your iPhone they will remain in iCloud. If you delete a photo on your iPhone after deactivation, it will be reflected only inside the iPhone, and not on iCloud, where the photos will all remain. Of course, you must not reactivate the iCloud Photos function after that, as the photos would be synchronized. Deleted photos inside the iPhone would thus also be deleted on iCloud and vice versa. I recommend using this feature only when you really have no other choice. You can disable iCloud Photos in Settings, to move to a section Fotky. At the function Photos on iCloud then switch switch do inactive positions. At the same time too deactivate possibility Send to My Photostream.
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Use of another service
Of course, before deleting the photos on the iPhone, you can also back them up to another cloud - for example, Google Photos, OneDrive, DropBox and others are available. However, in my opinion, Google Photos are the best. As soon as you download and launch the app, all your photos will start backing up. Once the backup is complete, you can uninstall Google Photos. This way, all photos will remain untouched in your Google account and you can return to them at any time. At the same time, you can then start deleting photos from the iPhone with the certainty that you will still have a full number of them stored somewhere in case of emergency.
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Only the author forgot to mention that you need to pay for iCloud, because you won't be able to upload many photos to the basic 5GB. Especially when every iPhone has 16 or today already 32GB.