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It says I am using 2GB of storage, but I have no photos, 1 email, 1 text message saved, no music, no video, no games, no apps. How can I reduce the amount of space I am using? Just seems like a LOT of space taken up for me not having anything on my phone.
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4
What does the storage page say is using it.
Photos & Camera 35.4 MB (no photos stored)
Mail 14.7 MB 1 email saved
calendars and reminders 2.4 MB (noting on there that I can see)
Messages 2.0 MB (1 text saved)
Health 208 KB never used it
Safari 104 KB (not even an icon for Safari on my phone)
iBooks 4.4KB again, never used
Podcasts 4.0KB, again, never used
Doesn't seem like that should add up to 2.0 GB
Are those just the applications & not the content?
2 GB doesn’t sound like a lot to me.
Don't forget IOS itself, that requires space as well.
That's the content.
Photo & camera lists photo library 35.4 MB and shared photo stream 3.9 KB
Mail says 'mail and attachments' 14.7 MB, I just deleted my one email and it says 16.3MB now
Calendars and reminders says 'events' 2.6 MB but I don't have anything in there
Messages 2.0 MB in saved messages (1 text thread with 2 messages)
Contacts lists Contacts and images 1.1MB
Health doesn't give me a breakdown, just 208KB
Safari says History 140 KB but I can't even access safari
iBooks says 'documents and data' 4.4KB
Podcasts says the same thing 4.0 KB
That's kind of my question, is 2.0 GB normal for not really having anything on here? It seems high to me, if that's what the apps and OS themselves take up, that's fine, but to me it seems high. (It's a work phone we're allowed to use any time, I just want to keep it as minimal as possible on mine because I know some people take advantage of that)
I don't know what iPhone you have but ...
I have a 16GB 4s, it says I have 2.0 GB used and 10.6 available, so the 12.6 seems right, I'm just trying to figure out how I have 2 Gigs of space used. If you can't tell, I'm not very technical, and I just remember the days 2GB was a big hard drive that I never came close to filling up, seems like to fill that up should take more than the standard included apps, a 2 response text message and some contacts.
Those figures are for phones with nothing except IOS (or Android) on them, no additional apps, accounts or data files.
Connect the phone to your computer. Click on its icon in itunes. Look at the memory allocation on the bottom of the Summary page.
does that work on any computer? I don't have a mac, and I've never used itunes
Windows or Mac, you just need iTunes
valediction wrote:
does that work on any computer? I don't have a mac, and I've never used itunes
Yes. You should be using iTunes to manage your iPhone. You can get it free from here: http://apple.com/itunes.
You should be using it first and foremost to back up your iPhone regularly. (You should also set up automatic backup to iCloud). You will also need it if you forget your passcode.
I probably should not have asked him the question:
I was trying to be subtle about making [him/her] think what he was seeing vs the assumption he made.
For an iPhone 4s how much storage is normal to use?
