Storage Always Full? A Tech Pro Shares How To Make More Room On Your iPhone Without Deleting Any Photos

Your iPhone storage is always full — and you’re beyond annoyed. You’ve already deleted as many accidental photos you shot of your foot or thumb, have moved a bunch over to iCloud, and did the hard work of deleting photos and videos from your phone — and, still, storage woes plague you. Or maybe you have zero interest in touching the photos and videos on your phone and would like a solution that doesn’t involve what you consider such a harsh step. That’s fair, too.

But something’s got to give when it comes to your phone and its storage. You’re going to have to make changes to gain back storage space, but you don’t have to suffer in the process. If your storage is always full, here are some ways to free it up without deleting photos.

Clearing your phone browser’s cache is a simple and effective way to free up storage and get your phone moving more efficiently. To do this, go to Settings > your browser > select Clear History and Website Data. Simple to do — but try and do it frequently.

We promised you wouldn’t have to delete photos and videos to free up storage, but we didn’t say you wouldn’t have to play with the settings a bit. This will be painless: turn off Live Photos by going to the Camera icon > Preserve Settings > toggle Live Photos off.