An option that apparently has nothing to do with it frees up a large amount of iPhone memory
The latest iPhone models already have good storage capacity. For example, the iPhone 15 Pro Max comes standard with 256 GB. Even so, most users have iPhone with 128 GB, 64 GB…In addition, new iOS updates and applications increasingly consume more storage resources.
This is why many users encounter the problem of having an iPhone without space. At Applesfera we have already discussed how to free up WhatsApp space, one of the applications that takes up the most storageand today we are going to give you a trick to free that hidden iOS memory that is more difficult to eliminate.
The hidden function of the iPhone to gain more storage
Even with iOS 18, Apple has not included any application or functionality in the settings that allows us to free up space. This includes the clearing cache of your own applications and the operating system. However, I have found a feature that helps us free up system space almost by chance.
And it is that the Latest iPhone Pro models are capable of recording video in ProRes. This is a professional recording standard that consumes a large number of gigabytes. To give you an idea, a single minute of video recorded in ProRes can easily take up 6GB.
That is why before starting a ProRes recording with the iPhone, the application Camera is responsible for deleting all those temporary files and cached on the iPhone to leave enough space for future video. The trick is to prepare the recording, but ultimately not record anything.
This is how you can delete system files and cache from the iPhone
To do this you will need to have an iPhone compatible with ProRes recording. This includes models iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro. If you have one of these iPhones, follow these steps:
- Go to Settings > Camera > Formats
- Scroll to the bottom and activate Apple ProRes
- Go to the application Camera and click on the indicator ProRes
- Check that the recording format is at most 30FPS
As soon as you do this, the iPhone will begin to free up resources and in about a minute you will see how recording duration time is increasing. In my case the reduction in storage has been 1GB. I have a 256GB iPhone 15 Pro Max, so the operating system has not particularly needed to free up much space. This It is increased on iPhones that have lower capacity and, above all, that they are fuller.
We continue to trust that Apple will add a cleaning function to our iPhone. Meanwhile, with this trick and others that we have already told you on another occasion, we can gain those extra gigabytes that we may need so much.
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