iPhone storage

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Is there a Safe way to reduce storage in iPhone?

That depends on what you mean by ‘safe’
I assume you mean by not deleting a photo that also synchronizes the deletion in the cloud as well

If you just want to minimise local file sizes whilst you still have plenty of cloud space, you can ‘optimise’ photos, with which the full quality copy will be uploaded to iCloud with a smaller version kept on your phone

If you don’t need direct access to photos that you want to preserve then you can use alternative cloud and/or drives. Make sure that you copy rather than synchronize and then you can delete the phone copy
The risk of drive storage is if the drive fails, and the risk of cloud storage is if using free storage that they may shut down in the future
Keep your important photos and files in multiple places

You can also change your file sizes, eg with photos & videos choose ‘settings, camera’ and adjust the quality settings

Use ‘settings, general, iPhone storage’ to see how much each app is using. You may manage to clear up some space by removing and reinstalling an app, or it can direct you to where your main culprits are to then go to the apps and selectively remove files within them

Ahh, thank you. I’ve just spent the last hour deleting Apps, hope I don’t regret it! 😅
When I said “safe” i actually meant using/buying an App to delete duplicated photos using unnecessary storage

Thank you! 😀

I buy some monthly iCloud storage as a back up.

I cannot truely recommend it as I don’t tend to use cleanup apps, but I recently tried ‘unroller’ which was on ‘appadvice’ as a free offer

I’ll recommend appadvice as you can go to it on occasion and see what today’s free offers are, plus look back a few days as there may be a week or monthly promotion. You can try and discard apps, but then have ‘bought’ it for free which means you can reinstall later

Unroller can show you your photos grouped as duplicates etc, but also by size. I used the ‘by size’ option as that highlighted images that I have previously scaled down for uploading to forums etc and were easy choices to delete
The user inferface is a bit like a dating app, swiping images as to keep or discard then confirming to delete the discards as a batch

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/swipe-delete-photos-unroller/id6739699580

I take photos of everything and have lots of storage, so I usually keep most and occasionally tidy and delete ‘temporaries’ such as a reminder photo of a thing

For the deletion of apps you don’t have to regret loss of the app as it can be reinstalled later (even purchased apps will still be ‘owned’)
What you can lose is the associated data - but that’s a space benefit if the app has become bloated and a reinstall later may be smaller when back to just the app itself

Thank you 😊

Might be worth checking
Settings > General > iPhone storage
As this will show you what's using up the space, you may also be able to clear unwanted data, e.g. the browsing history on browsers etc.

The Photos application on iOS and Mac OS, now include the ability to detect duplicates, in the Utilities section. (N.B. The duplicates option is only display when duplicates have been detected)

Great, thank you, Safari, Mail & my Santander account are using 600mb, if I delete them, do I lose all my info?

No, you can delete this data, it will be downloaded again as needed.