If you are finding that your phone is having difficulty performing updates, or your apps have been offloaded, then you are running out of storage space on your phone. You can see if removing duplicate photos are getting rid of screenshots can help. I will also help with WhatsApp and the data that uses in this post too.
Removing Duplicates
There is a similar feature on the Mac that can remove duplicate photos in the same location in the Photos app.
Removing Screenshots and other photos
In Media Types above Utilities, you will find a set of categories:
- Videos – Shows all video only content
- Selfies – Photos you have taken of yourself
- Live Photos – These are photos that have a bit of movement captured in them
- Portrait – These are photos captured in with the phone in portrait mode, as opposed to landscape.
- Long exposure – Photos where the shutter is kept open to take a steady shot of a moving object.
- Bursts – This is when you hold the shutter button (or the volume button) down to take a series of photos in one go.
- Screenshots – When you press the power button and home button together, or power button and volume up together, you capture the screen.
These categories group content together so that it is easier to delete the photos you don’t want or need.
From within WhatsApp, you can see what takes up more than 5MB of storage space, and that content is sorted by size with the biggest files first. You can then go through them and delete any you no longer need.
You can also do the same with chat groups
