iPhone storage
What Optimize iPhone Storage Does, and What It Leaves Behind
What Optimize iPhone Storage does to your photos, how to turn it off, and why a phone can still run short of room after you switch it on.
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Photo storage, explained properly
Why your iPhone fills up, what the built-in tools do and don't catch, and how to get the space back without losing anything.
iPhone storage
What an iPhone Storage Cleaner Can and Cannot Clear
What an iPhone storage cleaner can genuinely reach, why Apple ships no cleaner app of its own, and where the space on a full phone actually goes.
iCloud
How Much Is iCloud Storage? Plans, Prices, How to Need Less
Which iCloud+ tier suits you, where to read the current price on your own phone, and how to get under a plan boundary so you stop paying for the tier above.
iCloud
How to Clear iCloud Storage
What is actually taking up your iCloud storage, how to see it in about a minute, and how to clear it in the order that frees the most space.
Duplicate photos
How to Delete Duplicate Photos in iCloud
There is no way to clear duplicates on iCloud.com. You do it on an iPhone or iPad and the change syncs, which is why the job is quicker than it looks.
Duplicate photos
How to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPad
The iPad has the same Duplicates album as the iPhone, in the same place, and one sync behaviour that surprises people who use both devices.
Photo management
How to Delete Screenshots (and Stop Them Piling Up)
Screenshots are the easiest thing in a photo library to clear, because almost none of them were meant to be kept. Here is how to find and delete them in bulk.
Duplicate photos
How to Find Duplicate Photos on iPhone
Where the Duplicates album lives, why it is sometimes empty or missing, and how to find the near-identical shots iOS does not count as duplicates at all.
iCloud
iCloud Storage Full? What It Means and How to Fix It
What actually stops working when iCloud storage is full, what is safe to ignore, and the order to clear things in so backups and photo syncing start again.
iPhone storage
Why Is My iPhone Storage Full After Deleting Everything?
Recently Deleted, System Data and a storage figure that updates lazily explain almost every case where you deleted a lot and the number barely moved.