Apple Experts Agree: You Should Disable This iPhone Setting ASAP For More Storage

Are constant low storage notifications on your phone driving you up a wall? Do you rush to delete countless photos and videos, emails, notes, and whatever else you can think of — only to realize it’s never, ever enough to properly restore your storage? Dealing with storage issues on your expensive phone is a typical frustration, but there are steps you can take to remedy the situation. Apple experts agree: you should disable this iPhone setting ASAP for more storage.

It may come as little shock that many experts’ recommendations for freeing up storage on your device mostly revolve around photo settings. Photos and videos can take up a tremendous amount of storage space. And if you tend to forget to delete those that no longer serve you, you’re consuming far more storage than needed. Start making a big difference in the state of your storage by focusing on these three photo settings.

One of the settings that Jonathan Brax, the founder of Techable.com, says should be disabled by most and yet ignored is the Live Photos feature. “Due to the motion capability, the Live Photos feature tends to take up a lot of space on the iPhone,” Brax says. “In order to disable this setting, go to the camera app, and at the top center, you will see a concentric circle. If its color is golden, then the Live Photos feature is on, and every snap you take is a Live Photo. To disable this feature, simply tap this concentric circle once.”

“This setting stores every photo and video you take in its original, full-resolution version,” says Jie Min, CTO at Airgram. “Over time, this can eat up a lot of storage space on your phone. If you’re looking to free up some storage space on your iPhone, disabling this setting is a good place to start. Doing so will cause the Photos app to only save lower-resolution versions of your photos and videos, which take up less storage space.”