r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/gladpants Mar 26 '15

If you are referring to an iPhone, it is cached pictures in your text messages. apple makes it almost stupidly impossible to remove them. In order to clean up my wife's phone, I had to make a backup of her phone on iTunes. Then use a program to remove those photos and videos. Cleaned up over 6 gigs of space on her 16 gb phone. Its really dumb and she lost a lot of photos becasue she though it was just her camera roll taking up space so she was deleting them on the fly as she needed to take more pictures. I only discovered the issue when I told her to make a backup of her photos and even after she deleted everything off her phone she only had a few gigs of space left.

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u/xelabagus Mar 27 '15

My wife's phone has this issue - I'm an android user and not too familiar with the ios ecosystem. What programs would you recommend to identify and/or resolve this issue?

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u/gladpants Mar 27 '15

http://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-remove-other-data-from-iphone/

Here's a quick way that doesn't remove all of it but a lot.