How to increase the internal memory of an iPhone or iPad

Is our iPhone or iPad fast filled with photos, videos and documents? Let's find out how to increase the internal memory of an Apple portable device
 

One of the main flaws of the iPhone or iPad is not having the expandable internal memory

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The iPhone has various cuts for its devices and in recent years the most popular models are certainly those with less than 64 GB of internal memory, easily filled by taking many photos, making many videos and downloading documents to read them on the screen. 

With the iPad the memory cuts are higher, but even on the Apple tablet space can end soon without realizing it.

As the iPhone applications are getting bigger, including graphically curated games and increasingly powerful apps, it becomes difficult to manage the internal space especially if we start to upload music, documents, videos, podcasts and high-resolution photos. 

Unfortunately, we can not expand the memory of the iPhone by adding an additional memory inside by microSD as you would any other Android smartphone or Nokia, but in this guide we will show you all the possible methods to increase the memory capacity of the Apple device in our possession .

How to increase the internal memory of an iPhone or iPad

Before continuing we can see how much memory space is left in the iPhone or iPad going in the menu Settings -> General -> Info to get the detail on the memory used by photos, music, videos and installed applications.

So we will know well in advance when we will have to intervene to save some of the data stored on the device before the space ends. 

1) Move the heaviest files on the cloud

Since all owners of an iPhone certainly have a subscription plan to surf the Internet and since you should find more often free WiFi around, is to use the services and cloud apps. 

Below we have collected some of the free online apps for use with an iOS device (iPhone and iPad) to expand the memory , if one can say so in a broad sense. 

First of all we will move songs, videos, films and photos ; these are definitely the files that take up most of the space on Apple portable devices.

Unless you travel a lot and have no trouble getting access to a Wi-Fi or 3G network, you do not need to upload hundreds of songs or videos to your iPhone. 

Dropbox

I imagine all the most expert computer users know Dropbox, but it often happens to meet iPhone users who still do not know this online service and the related apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. 

With a Dropbox account , you can store files on the internet for up to 2 gigabytes of free space.

On Dropbox You Can Save Any Type of File, Even Mp3 and Film

Is our iPhone or iPad fast filled with photos, videos and documents? Let's find out how to increase the internal memory of an Apple portable device

One of the main flaws of the iPhone or iPad is not having the expandable internal memory.

The iPhone has various cuts for its devices and in recent years the most popular models are certainly those with less than 64 GB of internal memory, easily filled by taking many photos, making many videos and downloading documents to read them on the screen.

With the iPad the memory cuts are higher, but even on the Apple tablet space can end soon without realizing it.

As the iPhone applications are getting bigger, including graphically curated games and increasingly powerful apps, it becomes difficult to manage the internal space especially if we start to upload music, documents, videos, podcasts and high-resolution photos.

Unfortunately, we can not expand the memory of the iPhone by adding an additional memory inside by microSD as you would any other Android smartphone or Nokia, but in this guide we will show you all the possible methods to increase the memory capacity of the Apple device in our possession.

How to increase the internal memory of an iPhone or iPad

Before continuing we can see how much memory space is left in the iPhone or iPad going in the menu Settings -> General -> Info to get the detail on the memory used by photos, music, videos and installed applications.

So we will know well in advance when we will have to intervene to save some of the data stored on the device before the space ends. 

1) Move the heaviest files on the cloud

Since all owners of an iPhone certainly have a subscription plan to surf the Internet and since you should find more often free WiFi around, is to use the services and cloud apps. 

Below we have collected some of the free online apps for use with an iOS device (iPhone and iPad) to expand the memory , if one can say so in a broad sense.

First of all we will move songs, videos, films and photos ; these are definitely the files that take up most of the space on Apple portable devices. 

Unless you travel a lot and have no trouble getting access to a Wi-Fi or 3G network, you do not need to upload hundreds of songs or videos to your iPhone. 

Dropbox

I imagine all the most expert computer users know Dropbox, but it often happens to meet iPhone users who still do not know this online service and the related apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

With a Dropbox account , you can store files on the internet for up to 2 gigabytes of free space.

On Dropbox you can save any type of file, even mp3 and film

We connect to his site and sign up to get immediately 2 GB of additional space for our iPhone and iPad (we can increase the space by paying a monthly fee). 

The Dropbox site can be reached here -> Dropbox.

As written in another article with Dropbox you have a virtual hard disk on the Internet, whose content is synchronized between all the devices on which Dropbox is installed and the files can also be used by Android smartphones. 

All you need to do is sign up for Dropbox and download the app to your Apple device; the app is available here -> Dropbox App (iPhone and iPad). 

Automatically we can configure the Dropbox app to immediately save the videos and photos taken with the camera, so you can copy them without having to manually proceed (basic only on WiFi, but otherwise we have data problems we can upload photos and videos also through LTE and 3G).

Obviously we can also manually move the files we want to save so as to delete them on the mobile device and recover space.

With the latest version of Dropbox you can also access selected files, offline, without an Internet connection.

In addition, Dropbox allows you to export a PDF or Word file to another application that supports reading documents. 

 Google Drive

To have more space on the iPhone for photos and documents as well as all types of files you can use the application the Google Drive service on iPhone and iPad. 

In order to use it we will first have to sign up with a Google account to the Drive page.With this app we can move the app manually to our cloud; to automatically save photos and videos on Drive we will have to use another app linked to the service called Google Photos.

Apple iCloud

Among other cloud options there is also the integrated service in Apple called iCloudwith 5GB free for backups of music, images and address book of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in a completely automatic.

Using an Apple account we will already have access to this space in the cloud, we will not have to do is check the settings in this regard in the path Settings -> Account and password -> iCloud .

We activate all the items we want to backup, including photos, contacts and other personal data on the device.

2) Use external memory compatible with iPhone and iPad

Although we can not use microSD, we can always focus on external memories compatible with iPhone and iPad, thanks to Lightning support. 

These devices are very similar to USB sticks, but a part of the device has a Lightning socket that can be used to connect it to the iPhone or iPad and just like a normal USB stick we can move the heaviest files from the internal memory of the device Apple to external memory, so as to increase the amount of space available on iPhone and iPad. 

The best devices we can buy are the following: 

Flash Drive iPhone RAVPower USB Flash Drive iPhone (

Sandisk iXpand USB 3.0

UGREEN USB Memory for iPhone and iPad

iPhone RAVPower Flash Drive iPhone 64G 

You choose your favorite key (different cuts and sizes are available) and connect it to the your iPhone or iPad device from the same outlet where we usually insert the charging cable.

Many of these portable devices also have apps to automatically back up the gallery and videos, so you can save heavier content in just a few taps on the screen.