Tech Experts Agree: These Are The Unnecessary Apps That Are Eating Up All Your Storage

1. Safari

You aren’t about to delete your Safari browser (we hope). But it could be contributing a great deal to your loss of storage space. The more you search and visit websites on Safari, the more data Safari collects and the more cache it acquires. This eventually leads to its taking up a mountainous amount of storage. The best way to stay on top of Safari is by clearing its history and cookies. Go to Safari Preferences > Privacy tab > Manage Website Data to clear cookies. To clear history head to History > Clear History.

2. Streaming Apps

Streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu offer such great forms of entertainment, and many of us are watching TV shows and movies exclusively on our phones, so deleting them into the way to go. However, when you download media to watch offline, those shows stick around on your app, taking up unnecessary amounts of storage space. Be merciless when it comes to deleting old content so that you can free up as much space as possible.

3. Games

Games that features intense graphics and take up a lot of your phone’s resources (including battery power) are also going to take up a ton of storage space. A distraction or two while you’re in a doctor’s waiting room may make some of those games worth having, but if you can part ways with as many games as possible and keeping just a few, your storage space will thank you.

To find out which apps are taking up the most space on your phone, go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage.