Manage iPhone Video Storage to Free Space

Learn the methods to reduce iPhone video storage to free your iPhone space. 

The media files like video recordings that you have and enjoy on your iPhone take up space on your device’s storage capacity. And your device can fill up quickly depending on the size of its storage capacity and how much content you have. If you see a message that your storage is full, you can free up space by managing your iPhone video storage.

Tip: How to Check If Videos Run Out of iPhone Storage 

Follow below steps to check what has eaten up the memory in your iPhone.

1.Go to “Setting” on your iPhone.
2.Select the "General" tab and then select "Storage & iCloud Usage".
3.Tap "Manage Storage" under "STORAGE".
4.Then you will be able to see how the stored files are distributed. If you capture a lot of videos through your iPhone, you would see that a lot of storage space has been consumed by the videos.

Method 1: Backup Videos to iCloud 
Back up videos to iCloud and then delete these videos on your iPhone is a good way to reduce iPhone videos storage. Follow below steps to upload your videos to iCloud.

1. Open Settings on your iOS device.

2. Tap on iCloud >> Photos.

3. Flip the iCloud Photo Library switch to the ON.

4. Tap Optimize iPhone Storage to replace full-resolution photos and videos with device-optimized versions while keeping originals in iCloud.

5. Tap iCloud Photo Sharing if you want to share them with others.

6. Launch Photos on your Mac.

7. Choose Preferences in the Photos menu.


Method 2: Reduce Videos Quality 

Another method for you to reduce iPhone video storage is reduce the video capture quality of your iPhone. This can be done via the video camera settings of your device. If you reduce the capture quality, you will be able to save a tremendous amount of storage space. Remember to choose the quality of videos before you record the videos.

Additional Tip: 

If you accidentally delete some videos on your iPhone, you could use the professional iPhone data recovery tool- iRefone to help you. This tool enables to help you recover up to 16+ kinds of data including photos, videos, messages, notes, contacts, call history, wechat, whatsapp, etc. It supports to recover data directly from iOS device, as well as iTunes and iCloud backup.

Read more for how to recover iPhone videos.