Apple Employee Shares How To Free Up Storage With This One Simple Hack

Storage issues on your iPhone could be to blame for a number of problems you’re experiencing with your device. For starters, the most obvious one: if you have too much data stored on your phone, your device won’t allow you to continue taking more photos, videos, or accumulating other data. You’ll likely see a pop-up that alerts you to your low storage situation and, from there, the mad dash to delete files begin. Having low storage can also affect your battery and make your phone overall more sluggish. 

One of the leading causes of storage woes is your texts and photos. Unbeknownst to you, you could be taking multiple photos at once or saving every photo that you post on Instagram so that there are multiple copies of the same image or video stored on your phone. Not only is this a waste of storage space that gives back nothing in return, but remedying the problem can be a painstaking process as you go through all of your media and pick and choose, one by one, which to delete. Text messages, as well, can easily accumulate on your device. Before you know it, you could have thousands of texts and emails saved. All of that data is snatching up storage space. 

Never fear: there’s a tech hack for that — one that Tech Expert and former Apple employee Sabrina Badin generously reveals on her TikTok account @sabbadz. 

There is no need to delete text messages one by one — an exercise that would take hours to complete. Instead, Badin shows us how simple it is to select multiple messages and save or get rid of them to free up storage. Go to your inbox, place two fingers on the display, and drag down to select messages. Release your finger to stop them. From here, you can choose to delete them all or save them to a file and upload them to iCloud to free up space on your phone.