It is possible that, if you use iPhone, you also use Apple Music, because it is the default and native application that Apple has, which offers you advantages, such as a lower price with the One pack, or perfect synchronization with the rest of the devices in the ecosystem.
However, having a lot of songs, and also saved ones, can lead to a lot of space taken up on your iPhone, and, if you are low on storage, it can be a problem. That is why we are going to see how to solve it easily.
How to reduce Apple Music storage
If you use Apple Music and often download songs or albums to listen to offline, it's quite easy for your iPhone storage to start filling up without you realizing it. At first nothing happens, but over time lists, entire albums and songs that you may not listen to anymore accumulate, and suddenly your cell phone warns you that you have little space leftor, especially if you do the same with photos, apps, etc.
The good thing is that Apple thought of this and has a pretty useful option to prevent music from eating up your phone's memory. Is called “Optimize storage” and basically does the dirty work for you. When activated, the iPhone automatically deletes songs that you haven't listened to for a long time if it needs to free up space. It doesn't delete everything without control, just what you use the least, something you can also do with applications or even photos that you don't see, storing them in the cloud, and not on your phone.
Activating it is very simple. You just have to go to Settings, enter Music and look for the downloads section. There you will see the option to optimize storage. Once activated, you can choose how much space you want to reserve for Apple Music. From there, the system is in charge of managing the music without you having to keep an eye on it. A couple of GBs is more than enough to have all the songs you listen to the most.
If you are more of a person who wants to have everything under control, You can also manually check what Apple Music occupies on your iPhone. From the storage settings you can see how much space it is using and delete albums or lists that you no longer listen to. It's slower, but it lets you decide exactly what stays and what doesn't, in case you don't want Apple to decide.
In the end, it's quite simple, if you want to continue downloading music without worrying about space, activating optimization is the most convenient. And if you ever need to free up memory quickly, taking a look at your Apple Music downloads is usually a good way to recover several gigabytes in a few minutes, being able to listen to those songs over the internet, without them taking up space on your iPhone.
And you, did you know this option? The truth is that we think that a song takes up little, and it is true, but the sum of many, and even entire albums, means that, when we realize it, we have half of our memory full of songs alone. Leave us a comment with the way you manage this.
