Q: Mail is taking up far too much storage space on my iphone. Any idea how I can free up space on it?
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Mar 25, 2015 7:57 AMby judysings,Hi ProspectP,
The resource below will explain how to see how the storage space on your iPhone is being used by various applications, including Mail. For Mail and Messages especially, the photo and video attachments can take up a lot of space if you've saved them to your iPhone.
In the Mail app, in the list of Mailboxes, you will see a mailbox called Attachments, which shows you all of the emails that you have with attachments. Also, look at the settings for Mail. Tap on your primary mail account, and look in the Advanced settings. You can change the settings to removed deleted email from your device after one day, which will free up space.
See how much storage you've used on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201656Attachments - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph845853585Work with multiple messages - iPhone
http://help.apple.com/iphone/8/#/iph9db03b2f5Hope that helps ...
- Judy
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Mar 25, 2015 12:56 PMby ProspectP,Hey, thanks for getting back to me.
Unfortunately not, my Mailbox is taking up 1.6GB of data. To try and remedy this, I have deleted all my messages in every folder (Inbox, Sent, Trash, Junk) but it is still showing Mail as taking up 1.6GB. I have even tried to delete the outlook account and reset the iPhone, but when I add the account again it returns to the norm. It is definitely the email attachments that I was sending as there hasn't been a reason for it too increase so rapidly (roughly 1.3GB in 12 hours).
It may appear to be deleting emails/attachments on the face of it, but it does nothing to reduce the storage size. This is why I am almost questioning whether they are being put into a folder in an area that I am not aware of?
