How to Clean Up Gmail Storage on iPhone with Clean Email
Gmail is one of the most popular email service providers. And while it does offer features to help you manage your mailbox, there are many tasks that are more difficult than they should be or are simply non-existent altogether.
So, when you need to clean up Gmail storage on iPhone, it’s the robust feature set of Clean Email that shines and eases the task.
Bulk Email Deletion
You can quickly delete thousands of emails at once in the Clean Email app. Rather than continuously scrolling to load more messages in the Gmail mobile app, you can choose multiple or even select all emails and delete them easily.
💡 Pro Tip: You can sort by date, size, or age with a single tap to quickly find the emails you can safely remove.
Unsubscriber
Want to unsubscribe from more than one email at a time to regain space? Instead of tapping the Unsubscribe option for each message in the Gmail app, you can remove yourself from mailing lists in bulk with Clean Email.
💡 Pro Tip: When you unsubscribe, you have the option to remove all existing emails as well. This is a great way to free up space fast!
Smart Folders and Cleaning Suggestions
Both of these features automatically group similar emails for you. Smart Folders filter related messages into corresponding folders and Cleaning Suggestions provide recommendations on tidying up your mailbox.
They each give you a simple way to sort and mass delete emails like social notifications, food delivery confirmations, automated messages, and more.
💡 Pro Tip: When you get recommendations to delete certain types of emails with the Cleaning Suggestions, this feature adapts to your preferences over time. This helps you effortlessly rid your inbox of accumulating junk mail.
Auto Clean
Stay on top and ahead of mailbox cleanup with automated rules. By setting up Auto Clean, you can automatically move, mark, or remove messages as they arrive for a continuously clutter-free inbox. And because you can’t create Gmail filters in the mobile app, this is a Clean Email feature you’ll appreciate!
💡 Pro Tip: Maintain organization by creating rules that automatically archive emails or even delete messages from particular senders.
Although the above focus is on clearing out Gmail storage, you can use all of these Clean Email features and others on any device with additional IMAP email accounts like Outlook, iCloud Mail, and Yahoo Mail.
📌 Learn how to block emails to stop spam from collecting on your iPhone along with how to find archived emails in Gmail.
How to Clean iPhone Storage Without Deleting Apps
It’s frustrating when you’re running low on iPhone storage space, but don’t want to get rid of apps you enjoy. Luckily, there are a couple of things you can do to lighten the weight of heavy apps.
✅ Offload unused apps: This built-in iOS feature lets you unload apps you don’t use often but keep all of the data. You can then easily redownload and use the app as if it was on your Home screen all the time. It’s a great alternative to deleting apps which removes the corresponding data.
- Open Settings and select General.
- Choose iPhone Storage.
- If you see Offload Unused Apps in the Recommendations section, tap Enable.
- If not, choose an app in the iPhone Storage section and tap Offload App. Do this for each app you want to offload.
✅ Clear app caches: Temporary data and files help your apps load faster, but these caches can take up unnecessary space. Common apps like Facebook, TikTok, and Spotify offer a “clear cache” option you can use in the app’s settings.
How to Clean iPhone Photo Storage
If there’s one item that can consume a large amount of storage space on your iPhone, it’s photos. As you probably know, the iPhone camera takes fantastic pictures. However, those selfies, landscape shots, and colorful images are space hogs.
Using the built-in features of iOS, you can clean up iPhone storage for free by minimizing the load your photos carry.
✅ Optimize iPhone storage: If you use iCloud Photos, you can enable this feature to store your full-resolution pictures and videos in iCloud while smaller versions stay locally on your device.
- Open Settings and tap iCloud. You can also access your iCloud settings by selecting your Apple ID.
- Pick Photos.
- Choose Optimize iPhone Storage.
✅ Delete duplicates: Like many, you may snap more than one picture of your subject just to make sure you have the perfect shot. But once you favorite the one you like, do you delete the rest? The Photos app offers a handy tool in the Utilities section for Duplicates to merge, delete, and free up space quickly.
✅ Manage photo bursts: If you use the Photo Burst feature to really ensure you get that picture-perfect shot, it’s important to remove those photos in the burst that you don’t want. You can find all of your Bursts in the Media Types section of the Photos app to get rid of those you don’t need.
✅ Empty the Recently Deleted folder: After deleting photos, they’re moved to the Recently Deleted folder and continue to occupy storage for 30 days. To free up space immediately, open the Photos app, navigate to the Recently Deleted folder in the Utilities section, select Select at the top, and tap Delete All to remove them permanently.
How to Clean Out System Storage on iPhone
If you’re browsing through your iPhone Storage and see a large amount of space consumed by System Data, you’re probably wondering what that includes.
Your iPhone System Data contains items like iOS updates you’ve downloaded but haven’t installed yet, voices for Siri, cached files, system logs, and other resources necessary to run your device.
✅ The simplest way to clear out some of that system storage is to restart your device. When you do this, it removes the temporary files. Even though that data will likely return when you perform the same actions again, it’s still a good way for a quick clean.
Other ways to clean your iPhone storage cache include clearing the history and data for Safari and other web browsers you use along with removing app caches as described earlier.
💡 Pro Tip: Don’t forget to install those iOS updates, especially if you download but don’t install them right away. Sometimes the updated OS reduces your system storage footprint.
How to Clean iPhone Internal Storage
One more way to regain storage space on your iPhone is to clean up the other files, documents, attachments, and data.
✅ Use recommendations: A terrific way to get started is to use Apple’s Recommendations. These space-saving suggestions appear right in the iPhone Storage section of your Settings.
For instance, you can see below that up to 5.45 GB of space can be saved by reviewing (and removing) large attachments. This includes pictures, videos, and other files shared via the Messages app.
✅ Remove downloaded files: Another good cleanup option is to remove downloaded files you no longer need. If you open the Files app and go to the device’s Downloads folder, you can review these items which can include files from your web browser or other applications. You can then save or move the items you want to keep and delete the rest.
💡 Pro Tip: You can also see the number of items you’ve saved to your device rather than iCloud Drive. Open Files, select Browse, and pick On My iPhone.
Wrap-Up
Now that you know how to clean up iPhone storage as well as regain Gmail space using Clean Email, you should be on your way to a tidier, more efficient device.
