How to delete virtual storage on iPhone, free up iPhone memory

IOS is rated for good capacity management and less free 'junk' as on Android.

However, when you use the device for a long time and update the software constantly, the virtual capacity on the iPhone will increase and we need to free memory to avoid errors of memory overflow.

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1. Clear cache and Safari browsing history

Step 1: Go to Settings (1) => Safari (2) .

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Step 2: Select Delete history and website data (1) => Delete history and data (2) .

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2. Delete and reload applications with Big Data & Documents.

Step 1: Go to Settings => General settings (1) => iPhone capacity (2) .

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Step 2: You find and select applications with large document memory. Normally, social networking applications such as Facebook, Messenger, Zalo or have large amounts of data stored on the system. I will take the example of Zalo app (1) and then I press Delete application (2) to clean up all data of that app.

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Step 3: Then you open the App Store and reinstall the deleted application. Next, reopen the iPhone Storage section and check that the app has reduced the capacity as shown below.

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3. Use the memory release trick on the iTunes Store

This procedure is roughly a temporary memory cleanup to avoid overflow on iPhone. Implementation is also quite simple.

As shown below, you can see the amount of free space on the iPhone is 41 MB .

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Step 1: Go to the iTunes Store (1) => select Movie (2) and select any movie (3) .

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Step 2: Click on 49,000 Vnd RENT (1) , wait for the message Can not download , then click on Install (2) .

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You will then be taken to the General settings section . Next, tap About and see the amount of space on the iPhone has freed up a bit from 41 MB to 168 MB . Repeat this process as many times as possible until the memory on your iPhone is no longer increased.

This way, your computer can free up gigabytes of memory if your virtual memory is too much.

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4. Use PhoneClean

First, you need to download the software here

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the computer with a USB cable and turn on the software. Next, click Scan to scan.

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Then, the software will scan and display information about virtual memory, junk files on iPhone.

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Step 2: After the scan is complete, click Clean to clean.

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After that, the cleaning process will take place and the time will be faster or slower depending on the amount of junk files on the iPhone more or less.

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And finally, the Quick Clean Complete message appears to be successful.

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With ways to delete virtual storage on the iPhone, we will save some storage space on the iPhone quickly.

Good luck!

Update 30 July 2020
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