Start by opening up the settings app select general and tap on iphone storage or ipad storage to view this information.
What is media on iphone 7 storage.
Here s some of what takes up your storage space.
Below we list the 3 biggest ways for you to manage space.
With time your iphone 7 will accumulate a series of files including photos videos apps and needless files like junk files caches logs history.
Advertisement first head back to your main iphone settings app.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
At the top of the screen you ll see a bar.
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.
The first big bite out of your of iphone or ipad storage is ios itself.
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.
With optimize storage smaller space saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original full resolution versions are stored in icloud.
If the purple media bar takes up a big chunk of your iphone s storage chart it might be time to start cleaning up a bit.
Thankfully there are plenty of quick and easy ways you can free up space on your iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus.
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.
Give it a few seconds to load everything.
Select optimize iphone storage to save space on your device.
This could include thumbnail cache or related files that are not some kind of media files.