Apple has made ios and ipados smaller and more storage efficient over the years but it still takes up to 5 gb of space right off the top.
What is considered media on my iphone storage.
Give it a few seconds to load everything.
How do i trim media.
Your iphone is full of junk you don t need.
Even with a top of the line iphone you may still find yourself running low on storage so why not free up some space by using a.
How to check your iphone or ipad s storage space using itunes on pc and macos mojave and older.
Start by opening up the settings app select general and tap on iphone storage or ipad storage to view this information.
Here s what twitter uses media and web storage for.
This is where you will distinctly see how much space the other category is using.
Once finished you ll see an overview of the storage space taken up on your ios device at the top.
The first big bite out of your of iphone or ipad storage is ios itself.
Access your files from anywhere with this cloud storage solution.
When connected to itunes you can see a graph of your iphone or ipad s storage categories in the device summary section.
And a recent class action lawsuit against apple has brought to light that even if you buy a 16 gb iphone you can t actually use all 16 gb of storage.
Media storage the amount of storage taken up on your iphone ipad or ipod touch by photos videos animated gifs and vines in your timeline.
Here s some of what takes up your storage space.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
Iphone storage what does the blue media bar represent exactly.
When you buy your iphone ipad or ipod touch it comes with a set storage capacity ranging from 16 to 512gb for iphone 16gb to 1tb for ipad and 8 to 256gb for ipod touch the music you buy the apps you download the photos you take and all of the other content that you enjoy on your device uses its storage.
Photos appear to have their own bar.
Connect your iphone to your computer.
So let s try to make the most of what you have.
Ios11 shows about 4gb of media on my phone yet i deleted all videos and all but one song.
To see how much storage all your apps and data are taking up on your iphone s storage open the settings app select general then iphone storage.