Apple makes major change to millions of iPhones that uses up a load your storage – but there’s a way to switch it off

YOUR latest iPhone update mightiness person conscionable eaten up 7GB worthy of retention overnight.

Apple's caller AI-powered feature, Apple Intelligence, is switched connected by default connected each compatible devices successful iOS 18.3.

It brings a bundle of caller features, similar a smarter Siri, customized emoji, connection summaries and representation generation.

But each those caller features necessitate much abstraction connected your telephone - if your instrumentality is eligible.

Apple Intelligence is disposable on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro and the iPhone 15 Pro Max.

Now, you tin take to disable Apple Intelligence entirely, and escaped up a whopping 7GB.

You tin bash this successful Settings, by going to the caller Apple Intelligence & Siri section.

From there, you tin toggle disconnected Apple Intelligence.

Doing truthful volition punctual a confirmation, aft which the strategy volition region astir each AI features.

Although, immoderate caller AI tools similar the Clean Up feature in the Photos app whitethorn stay available.

It's an casual fix, that lone takes a fewer seconds.

But if you privation to marque usage of the caller AI-powered features, past you whitethorn request a fewer other retention tricks up your sleeve.

Offload unused apps

If you person apps that you seldom usage but don’t privation to delete permanently, you tin offload them.

This means the app is removed but the documents and information are inactive intact - truthful it takes up little retention than a afloat installed app.

1. Go to Settings pat connected General
2. Select iPhone Storage
3. Scroll down and pat connected the app you privation to offload, and take Offload App

Optimise photos and videos

Photos and videos tin instrumentality up a important magnitude of retention space.

But a nifty fastener successful Settings tin prevention the high-resolution versions of this media to iCloud.

They're inactive connected your device, but successful a little solution until you click connected them and load the high-res versions.

To optimise storage, alteration the Optimise iPhone Storage enactment successful Settings > Photos & Camera.

Clear Safari Cache

Over time, Safari accumulates cache - conscionable similar the net browser connected your PC oregon laptop does.

To wide this, simply travel these steps:

1. Open Settings pat connected Safari
2. Select Clear History and Website Data
3. Confirm your prime by tapping Clear History and Data

This volition besides region offline speechmaking database information and escaped up retention space.