You’re making a HUGE iPhone mistake – and it only takes seconds to fix

IF you’ve got an iPhone, you’re almost certainly wasting loads of storage space.

That’s bad news, as using up too much storage can prove costly.

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You might decide you need to pay for more cloud back-up storage, upgrade your iPhone model with more memory, or delete prized photos.

But there are very simple ways to quickly free up storage space.

One clever hack is called Offload Unused Apps, and it appears in your iPhone settings.

The feature removes apps from your phone that you don’t use regularly.

But it backs up the personal contents of those apps on the cloud.

That means you won’t lose any of your settings or files in the apps.

But the physical apps will be removed until you want to use them again.

“Automatically offload unused apps when you’re low on storage,” Apple advises.

“Your documents and data will be saved.”

Apple will only offload apps that you don’t often use.

When The Sun tested the feature, it freed up an incredible 38.17GB of data.

And this iPhone trick could unlock even more on your own device.

Many recent iPhone models have shipped with 64GB of storage as standard.

So freeing up that much storage is a significant amount.

Simply go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage and then tap Enable on Offload Unused apps.

There’s another Apple trick built into the iPhone that can also clear some space.

It’s called Review Downloaded Videos.

This is an automatic feature that collects videos you’ve downloaded to your iPhone.

Videos take up much more space than photos, and can easily gobble gigabytes of storage.

Go into Settings > General > iPhone Storage and look for the option to Review Downloaded Videos.

It will give you an estimate of how much space you could clear.

You can then go into the setting and see how much space individual videos are using, and then deleting the ones you don’t want to keep.

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