Some iPhone apps do exactly what they’re supposed to do. They’re fun, they connect you to friends and family, they offer convenience in your life, and they may even make your life easier and better. But some apps are also extremely resource intensive, which means they could be taxing your device, snatching up data, and running your battery down.
If you’re in the mood to clean up your device and apps, start by getting rid of a few or changing the settings on these four worst iPhone apps that are slowing down your phone and taking up space.
Travel Apps Are the Worst Offenders
Based on the megabyte size of each app, the top apps that take up the most memory on your iPhone actually aren’t social media, if you can believe it. They are travel apps: United Airlines, Lyft, and Uber (Airbnb also makes an appearance on the Top 30 worst apps for storage).
After these apps you’ll find a few more of the usual suspects: Fitbit, Facebook. Uber Eats, YouTube (because, remember, streaming takes up a lot of resources), TikTok, and Snapchat.
Ways to Free Up Storage
It may be possible for you to delete these storage-sucking apps and gain back some space on your device. But if that’s not a possibility for you, or you have deleted several apps and are finding it isn’t doing the trick, there are some steps you can take to gain back storage space.
Go to Settings > iPhone Storage. Here you’ll see a list of the apps on your phone according to how much space they take up. One quick way to get back space is by deleting Recently Deleted Photos. But a better recommendation is to offload any and all apps you don’t use frequently, whether or not they are on this list. Consider choosing one food delivery service and deleting the rest. Doing this will ensure these apps aren’t running in the background and taking up space.
A bit of phone maintenance here and there involves going through your apps and photos and deleting or offloading things you don’t need. This can help you maintain a well-working and running iPhone that has plenty of storage so that you (hopefully) see way fewer annoying “storage full” pop-ups in your future.
