These 8 Unnecessary Apps Might Be Hogging All Your iPhone Storage

It’s not too late to do a little iPhone spring cleaning — that means deleting apps that no longer serve you for the sake of a more efficient phone experience. If you can’t remember the last time you went through your apps and took a hard look at the ones that could be causing your phone to slow down and act a little less than itself, there’s no better time than the present. Some of the most unnecessary apps to focus on are those that are hogging up your storage space and not providing much in return.

We promise this process won’t be painful — in most cases you may not even realize you’ve deleted anything (that’s how unnecessary these apps can be). If you’re searching for ways to increase your storage space, consider deleting these eight apps.

That game that you downloaded in 2020 when Covid boredom kicked in but that you never played after 2022? Yes, that game — it needs to go. Old apps that you never use and update are taking up valuable storage space and giving back zero in return. Not to mention: they could be filled with bugs and issues that were never resolved if you haven’t been updating them regularly. Give them the boot.

We love the Podcasts app — but there’s no doubt that it takes up lots of storage space and could be downloading new episodes of podcasts without you even knowing it. If you use Podcasts, make sure you frequently delete old files. And if you don’t use it — feel free to get rid of it.