This Mysterious Hack Frees Up Storage on Your iPhone and No One Knows Why
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No one is immune to the struggle of not having enough memory on their iPhone. It seems like we're always deleting videos, erasing text messages, and getting rid of apps to free up space on our devices — until now! Reddit user eavesdroppingyou discovered this trick while attempting to download a particularly large movie file. Basically, if you try to rent or download a movie that is bigger than your available storage, your iPhone will somehow create space. The genius who stumbled upon the hack said they went from 1 GB to 2 GB by repeating the process a few times. We tried for ourselves and it actually works! Read ahead to see screenshots that prove this works and how to do it.
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We started off with almost no storage.
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Then, we tried to download a movie that was bigger than the available storage space we had.
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It looked like it was downloading . . .
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. . . Until the device realized it didn't have enough space.
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Then, the magic started to happen!
We have more space on our phone.
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And it kept happening the more times we did it.
Ta-da! Try it for yourself!