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Manage Device Storage on iPhone 6

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You're watching VisiHow, and today we're going to show you how to manage the storage on your iPhone 6.

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First, we need to press the Home button at the bottom of the phone one time, which will open the lock screen
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Then we can swipe across the screen to enter our pass-code if we have one
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Alternatively, we can hold our thumb over the Home button to use the fingerprint scanner
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At the Home screen, we'll give a single press to Settings
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From the Settings menu, scroll down to the third section and tap on General
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At General settings, scroll down and tap on Usage in the fourth section
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On the Usage screen, we are interested in Storage, which is the second set of options
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As you can see, I have 20.9 gigabytes used data and 93.4 gigabytes of available space.
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If I would like to see what is using up all of the space, I can tap on Manage Storage
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A Storage screen will open, and you will see a list of programs along with how much space each one is using
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If you want to delete some of the apps you no longer need that are taking up space, simply tap on the app name in this list
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A short informational screen will open for that application
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Just below that information will be a Delete App button. Tap that to delete the application.
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Tap Delete App again below the confirmation message that appears on the bottom of the screen
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The message simply states that deleting the program will also delete any of its documents and data.
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Now, the app is gone, and you'll be taken back to the Storage screen
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This is a way to quickly delete applications and restore excess space on your phone. Generally speaking, when I complete a tutorial on a game or application, I delete it if I do not regularly use that app. For now, let's tap on Usage at the top left corner of the screen to go back.
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We can continue tapping at the top left corner until we reach the main Settings menu
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From here, a single press to the Home button will take us back to the Home screen
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We can now double press the Home button, and swipe up on open applications or Windows to close them
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This concludes our tutorial on managing and freeing up data and space on your iPhone 6
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If you'd like more help or assistance with this, please leave a note in the comment section below.
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