Guides
Step-by-step guides with the actual iOS menus — including what the built-in tools do well and where they stop.
Storage guide
Your iPhone says storage is almost full. Here is what is really taking the space, in the order that recovers the most: photos, Recently Deleted, message attachments, app caches and iCloud settings. Step-by-step, with the iOS menus.
Photos guide
Two ways to remove duplicate photos on iPhone: the built-in Duplicates album in iOS 16 and later, and a full scan that also catches near-identical shots the built-in tool cannot see. With the limits of each, explained.
Compression guide
Compress iPhone photos and videos to free storage while keeping them. What HEIF and HEVC actually do, which camera settings halve the size of everything you shoot, and when compressing beats deleting.
Contacts guide
Remove duplicate contacts on iPhone: the built-in Link Contacts feature, why duplicates keep reappearing when several accounts sync, and how to merge in bulk safely — with a backup first.
Email guide
Clear a Gmail inbox from your iPhone: the search operators that find the biggest and oldest mail, how to bulk delete by sender, how to actually unsubscribe from newsletters, and what frees Google storage rather than just hiding mail.
Storage guide
You deleted hundreds of photos and Settings still says the same number. There are four reasons, and the first one accounts for almost every case: Recently Deleted holds the files for 30 days and they occupy exactly the same space.
Contacts guide
Contacts doubled on your iPhone? It is almost always two accounts syncing the same people — iCloud plus Google, a restored backup, or a SIM import. Here is how to find which one, and how to stop it happening again.
Contacts guide
iCloud.com has no merge-duplicates button. Here is what actually works: the Contacts app on a Mac finds and merges them in bulk, and the iPhone handles the rest — plus what syncs where, and what to back up first.
Photos guide
iOS finds exact duplicates. It does not find the eight near-identical shots of the same moment, which is where the space actually is. Here is what each term means and why the Duplicates album is so often empty.
Free to download, free to scan. You see the exact recoverable figure for your own library before deciding anything.