Here you ll see exactly how much space is being taken up by all the media on your phone.
What is media on iphone storage.
Take the twitter app it stores a bunch of stuff photos gifs and vines in its media storage section.
Ios11 shows about 4gb of media on my phone yet i deleted all videos and all but one song.
Next navigate to settings general iphone storage.
While you can be careful with how many photos videos or music tracks you store on your device the iphone s other storage category remains something of a mystery.
Web storage the amount of storage taken up on your ios device by web content including webpages cookies saved logins and other web data.
Dump these files and you could regain some serious storage.
What s amazing about ios 11 is that you have more options to remove specific items.
Advertisement first head back to your main iphone settings app.
Photos appear to have their own bar.
When you buy your iphone ipad or ipod touch it comes with a set storage capacity ranging from 16gb to 512gb for iphone 16gb to 1tb for ipad and 8gb to 256gb for ipod touch the music you buy the apps you download the photos you take and all of the other content that you enjoy on your device uses its storage.
If the purple media bar takes up a big chunk of your iphone s storage chart it might be time to start cleaning up a bit.
How to check the storage on your iphone ipad and ipod touch ios and ipados monitor the storage on your device by analyzing how much space each app uses.
Iphone storage what does the blue media bar represent exactly.
Apps photos media songs and videos and.
Media in storage can be a number of things like music or videos.
Photos videos gifs and stickers.
You can also check the storage on your device in settings itunes or the finder on your computer.