How Much Does iOS Occupy on the iPhone and How to Free up that Space

If you go to Settings> Storage of the iPhone you will be able to find the space that the different apps and documents occupy on your device. If you look closely, the iOS operating system itself takes up an amount of space that can sometimes be excessive. In this article we will help you reduce that space so that you can have it available to store anything else you want, this being especially notable in the iPhone with smaller capacity.

iOS will always take up space

It may seem obvious, but not everyone is aware of this. The iPhone operating system has to occupy a certain space on the device and this is not additional to what the device already has. If, for example, you have a 32 GB iPhone, iOS will not occupy a space apart from these 32, but will occupy part of them. This is unavoidable and it is also impossible to remove the operating system completely, and if it were, it would be unusable. Therefore, you should know right away that you will never be able to eliminate it completely, although you do save some space as we will explain below.

How Much Does iOS Occupy on the iPhone

Update to the latest version available

There are some versions of iOS that weigh more than others, even having less news than the later ones. In fact, Apple in each update tries to optimize the devices to the maximum even in this aspect, so having the latest version of iOS available is always a good recommendation in this and many other ways. You can go to Settings> General> Software update and download and install the latest update that is available, if there is one.

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You can restore without losing data

A more effective way than the above to save iOS space is to format the iPhone . For this, it is advisable to make a backup beforehand so that both your information and the settings you have can be kept later without having to load them manually. The copy can be in iCloud or through a computer. It is always said that the most complete way to restore is by connecting the iPhone to a computer, although in this case it can be enough to do so from Settings> General> Reset and clicking on “Delete content and settings”.

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If the above doesn’t work

If the previous method did not work for you, you could try to do a complete format of the iPhone, for which you should not load any backup copy. It is recommended that you go to Settings> your name> iCloud first to check what data is synchronized with iCloud (photos, calendar, notes, etc.), since these can be loaded later without the need for them to be in a backup.

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For this occasion, it is recommended that the restoration be done through a computer, connecting the iPhone by cable. Although for practical purposes it seems that it is the same process when it is done from the phone as when it is done with a computer, really when you do it from the iPhone you are not completely erasing the data, while in this way yes, forcing the phone to start from scratch completely. When you have formatted it, you must choose the option “Set up as new iPhone” when asked if you want to transfer data.

If this doesn’t work for you, unfortunately there are no more methods to save you iOS space. Although there are other tricks to save space on the iPhone, although these will reduce the space occupied by apps and data, not those of the operating system itself.