Why you shouldn’t delete apps if your iPhone is low on storage

Is your iPhone completely cluttered and can you barely add new photos and videos? Then you are probably already on your way to remove a few apps, but that is not necessarily the solution. Instead, you better do something else.

When deleting an app, you also delete all data associated with it. Fortunately, if you are sure that you will never use an app again, that is not a problem. If you ever want to download that app again, you will lose all data and you have to set everything up again.

iPhone function Clean up apps

Fortunately, there is a better way. With the iPhone function Clean up apps you can free up storage on your phone without deleting apps.

Go to your iPhone’s storage settings. Go to Settings and then to General and finally to iPhone storage. Then you activate Clean up appswhat under Recommendations state.

Data is preserved

According to Apple, Clean up apps help you free up storage space without losing documents and data. The apps themselves often take up more space than the data that comes with them, so this is a nice bonus.

You have not used apps that are cleaned up for a reasonable number of days before they are eligible to be cleaned up. So you don’t have to worry about apps being deleted after a day or two of inactivity.

Download again

To download a cleaned app again, all you have to do is click the app again. The icon of the app remains. Your iPhone can download and install the app for you again from the App Store.

However, you should keep in mind that apps that are removed from the App Store are lost forever when they are cleaned up by your iPhone. You can no longer download them again.