For many iPhone users, the amount of storage space available on their devices is at a premium. With all the apps, photos, songs, and games, it's easy to exceed storage limits—especially on an 8 GB or 16 GB phone. If you don't have enough space, clean up your email. Email takes up a lot of storage, and if you need all the free room you can get, it's an excellent place to make some changes. Here are three ways to make email take up less space on your iPhone.
These instructions apply to devices with iOS 12 or later.
Don't Load Remote Images
Most of us get emails with images in them, for example, newsletters, advertisem*nts, confirmations of purchases, or spam. To display the images embedded in each email, your iPhone has to download these images. And since pictures take up more storage space than text, that can add up to a lot of memory used.
If you're okay with your email being a little plain, block your iPhone from downloading this content.
Scroll down to the Messages section and move the Load Remote Images toggle switch to Off/white.
Even though you're blocking remoteimages (images stored on someone else's webserver), you'll still be able to see images sent to you as attachments.
Since you're not downloading as many images, it takes less data to get your mail, which means it will take longer to reach your monthly data limit.
Delete Emails Sooner
When you tap the trash can icon when reading email or swipe across your inbox and tap Delete, you're not deleting the mail. What you're actually telling your iPhoneis, "the next time you empty the trash, make sure to delete this one." Email isn't deleted immediately because the iPhone email settings control how often the iPhone empties its trash.
The items that are waiting to be deleted take up space on your phone, so if you delete them sooner, you'll free up space faster. To change that setting:
Open the Settingsapp and select Passwords & Accounts. Then, tap the email account whose setting you want to change.
Tap Account, then select Advanced, go to the Deleted Messages section, and tap Remove.
Tap either Never, After one day, After one week, or After one month. The emails that you delete will leave your phone (and its storage) on the schedule you chose.
Not every email account supports this setting, so you'll have to experiment to see which you can use this tip with.
Don't Download Any Email at All
If you want to get extreme or want to use your storage space for something else, don't set up any email accounts on your iPhone. That way, email will take up 0 MB of your storage.
If you don't set up email accounts, that doesn't mean you won't be able to use email on your phone. Instead of using the Mail app, go to the website for your email account (for example, Gmailor Yahoo Mail) in a web browser and log in that way. When you use webmail, no email downloads to your phone.
Filter by Unread: Use filters to focus on unread emails and clear them out regularly. Attachments: Regularly delete emails with large attachments or save attachments to iCloud or another storage solution and remove the email. Search and Sort: Use the search bar to locate old or large emails and delete them in bulk.
Apple's Mail app doesn't provide a lot of control over how much storage it uses. it wants to download and store a lot of emails so they can be indexed and searchable with Spotlight. On iOS the Mail app may take up gigabytes of storage space because it wants to store a complete offline copy of your email.
If a user frequently sends or receives emails with large attachments, it can contribute to the storage quota being used up more quickly. Old Emails and Spam: If a user doesn't regularly delete or archive old emails, especially those with large attachments, their storage space can fill up over time.
Click Empty Trash now. This action permanently deletes your emails and frees up their storage space. If you delete many emails at once, it can take some time for the space to be freed up.
Tap Edit in the upper-right corner, then individually select the emails that you want to delete, or tap Select All. To select multiple emails quickly, swipe down through the checkboxes. Tap Trash or Archive. If you only see Archive, touch and hold Archive to see other options like Trash Selected Messages.
Common reasons for an overloaded mailbox include the obvious which is many, many emails. But your storage space can take quite a hit with messages that include large attachments, excessive spam or junk emails, and subscriptions like newsletters.
Free up space with Gmail. With the Google One Storage Management Tool, you can review and free up storage space by deleting emails in your trash, spam emails, or emails with large attachments. info Features are subject to availability. The steps may look different depending on your device.
deleting comes down to what suits your needs best: archive if you need easy access to information and delete if you want quick decluttering of your inbox. If you need to free up space in your inbox because it's full, you'll have no other choice but to delete emails.
It claims that “Your iCloud storage might be full,” and tries to convince the reader to upgrade to 50 GB of storage. However, the e-mail isn't actually from Apple. The e-mail contains links that could potentially lead to phishing sites or other scams, malware, or other potentially harmful sites.
Emails, social media posts, text messages, are not primarily stored in your cache, cookies, or history, so clearing your browser data should have no effect on them.
If you do not regularly clear your email cache, you will have lack of space and lose track of the convenience in file access. Your email cache should be emptied to ensure your data protection and to free up used storage space for more important files.
Free up space with Gmail. With the Google One Storage Management Tool, you can review and free up storage space by deleting emails in your trash, spam emails, or emails with large attachments. info Features are subject to availability. The steps may look different depending on your device.
If your device is set up to access iCloud email, you can delete messages from any mailbox, then empty the Trash to free up space: Swipe left across any message to delete it. Go to your Mailboxes and choose your Trash folder.
You can't. Those emails that arrived while there was no space for them will have been bounced back to the sender with an error message stating the mailbox is full. Your only hope of getting them is if the sender decides to resend them.
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