Emotional attachment and time are my biggest problems when freeing up photos storage. I have nearly 18,000 items in my photo library, which includes over 1,000 screenshots and an unknowable number of similar photos. You see, when I take a photo, I tend to click the shutter over a dozen times to ensure I get at least one great shot. This means I often have unnecessary duplicates in my gallery, but it can be hard to find them all, and I don't want to delete something important by accident.
Luckily, deleting manually isn't your only option.
Free up Photos storage space on your iPhone
If you're really tight on storage space, you should focus on easy, big gains first before getting sucked into manually reviewing your photos. I usually start by checking the Recently Deleted folder. This has items you've deleted over the past 30 days, and if you're sure you're not going to need them, you can permanently erase them to quickly free up space. To do this, go to the Photos app on your iPhone and scroll down until you see the Utilities section. Select Recently Deleted, tap the Select button, and pick the items you don't need. Tap the three-dots button in the bottom-right corner and hit Delete, followed by Delete From This iPhone.
Credit: Pranay ParabOnce that's done, go to the Videos and Screen Recordings folders and clear out things you don't need. Usually, these files are quite large and you'll see some rapid gains by deleting unwanted items. While you're at it, visit the Screenshots folder and get rid of captures you no longer care about.
Using third-party apps to delete iPhone photos
I generally don't recommend using third-party apps to clear out photo storage because most of them don't do a better job than the built-in Photos app, often have expensive subscription models, and are from unknown developers. Since these apps require access to your entire photo library, it's a bit of a risk to pick any old app to do the job. If you really want to use one of these apps to quickly delete photos, Undolly is a good option. It's quick to scan the library and uses on-device processing to identify similar photos and not just duplicates. It still takes time to review photos and delete them, but the app helps you out by picking out the best among similar photos, and its selection is usually quite good. The app costs $1/month or $15 for a lifetime unlock, which is relatively inexpensive, and its privacy nutrition label indicates that it collects no data. That's also reassuring to see.
If you're already an Amazon Prime subscriber, you could consider Amazon Photos, which offers unlimited photo storage and 5GB of video storage at no additional charge. Even without Prime, you can subscribe to Amazon Photos for 1TB of storage at $70/year. That plan gives you less storage per dollar than iCloud's 2TB option, but you end up saving about $50/year, too.
Back up iPhone photos to local drives
To truly keep your photos secure, though, you should also keep a copy of your iPhone's photos on external hard drives, your Mac or PC, or a network-attached storage (NAS) device, if you have one. To do that on Mac, connect your iPhone to your computer using a USB cable and open the pre-installed Image Capture app. Now, connect any external storage device and you'll be able to copy iPhone photos to that drive. On Windows, you'll have to connect the iPhone via USB and use the Microsoft Photos app to import photos, before transferring them to an external drive.
Alternatively, if you're backing up your iPhone photos to a NAS device, you can use the CCC Mobile app to complete the transfer wirelessly. The app is a free download, but requires you to pay a one-time fee of $2.99 to back up your photos and videos. After that, you can periodically keep uploading your entire photo library to a NAS or an external storage device directly plugged in to your iPhone.
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