How to free up phone storage

Short guides for iPhone and Android: what takes up space and how to get it back without losing what matters.

• How to free up storage on iPhoneFind what is eating your storage, then 10 ways to get it back — from photos to messenger cache.
• How to find and delete duplicate photosBuilt-in duplicate finders on iPhone and Android — and how to deal with near-identical shots.
• How to quickly delete all screenshotsWhere screenshots live and how to delete them all at once — or keep just the ones you need.
• How to clean your gallery and free up storage on AndroidWhat takes up space on Android and how to get it back: gallery, Google Photos, messengers, cache.
• Swipe to delete photos — clean your camera roll like TinderThe “left to delete, right to keep” method: why it beats checkboxes and how to sort thousands of photos in an evening.
• How to find and delete large videos on your phoneVideos take the most space. Where to look for the heaviest ones — camera roll, messengers and downloads.
• Storage still full after deleting photos: what to doDeleted photos but storage did not budge? Seven common reasons and how to get the space back.
• How to clear cache on iPhoneThere is no global cache button on iPhone — here is how to clear it in Safari, Chrome and popular apps.
• How to transfer photos from iPhone to a PC or MacCable, iCloud or cloud apps: every way to move iPhone photos to Windows or Mac — and fixes when the PC does not see them.
• Recently Deleted on iPhone: where it is and how to use itWhere the Recently Deleted album hides, how to recover or permanently delete photos, and why space is not freed at once.
• How to check iPhone storageSee how much space is left and what is using it — plus what each category means and where to start.
• Where is the photo trash on Android and how to empty itSamsung Gallery, Google Photos, Xiaomi and Files by Google: where each trash is, how long it keeps photos, how to empty it.
• System Data on iPhone: what it is and how to reduce itWhy System Data takes so much space on iPhone and the safe ways to bring it down — no sketchy hacks.
• iCloud storage full: what to doWhat fills up iCloud, what is safe to delete first, and when an iCloud+ plan makes more sense.
• How to clean up your camera roll on iPhoneWhere to start, which built-in Photos tools help, and how to keep your camera roll from getting messy again.
• Photo cleaner apps for iPhone and Android: an honest guideWhat cleaner apps can actually do on iPhone and Android, the red flags, and how to pick a good one.
• How to clear Telegram storage and cacheClear Telegram cache in a minute and set limits so it never grows to tens of gigabytes again.
• How to reduce WhatsApp storage on iPhoneFind the heaviest WhatsApp chats and files, delete them, and stop media from piling up again.
• How to delete all photos from your iPhone at onceFour ways to delete every photo from an iPhone — and the iCloud check to do first so you do not lose them everywhere.
• Can’t delete photos on iPhone: reasons and fixesGrayed-out trash icon, photos that come back, space that does not free up — what causes it and what to do.