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Declutter your iPhone - 7 fast and easy tips

1. Optimize storage space

Take a close look at which of your apps and files use up the most space.

Go to: > Settings > General > iPhone Storage

There you can see in detail which applications and files consume which space. You can delete the apps you never use. Take a closer look at your music and photo library. It lists exactly which media use up how much space. Delete what you no longer need.

2. Empty history in Safari

Open Safari, tap the open book icon at the bottom of the screen, then tap the clock in the top navigation bar on the next page. Now you can delete the history.

3. iMessage

Messages sent and received with iMessage can be stored indefinitely. Often they are still embellished with photos, GIF, s etc. and just take away space. The mode of how long messages should be stored can be changed.

> Settings > scroll down > Click Messages > Message history

Here you can choose how long to store the messages.

You might want to keep the messages but remove the big attachments?

> Settings > General > iPhone storage > Messages > Review Large Attachments

You are able to delete large attachments here.

4. Delete Apps

Which apps do you really use regularly? If you haven’t used apps in the last three months, delete them. In the apps you want to keep, you should also regularly empty the history.

For example, with Instagram, this is how you do it:

> Menu > Settings > Privacy and security > Scroll down to > Delete search history

5. Use thematic folders for the apps

If you have to constantly scroll your way through a variety of apps, it’s very exhausting. Now that you’ve deleted some old apps, you can create themed folders and put all the similar apps in them. For example, create a folder “Photos” and store all apps related to photo/photo editing.

Create folders:

Press an app icon until all the icons start to wobble. Then drag an app icon to another and automatically a new folder is created. The folder can then be renamed immediately.

A tidy screen gives a tidy feel.

6. Sorting out photos and videos

Sie müssen sicher nicht jedes Foto aufbewahren, auch nicht zehn mal dasselbe Motiv aus einem anderen Blickwinkel. Räumen Sie auf. Löschen Sie alle Fotos, die verwackelt, unscharf oder unbrauchbar sind sofort. Am Besten direkt nach dem Fotografieren.

You certainly don’t have to keep every photo, even ten times the same subject from a different angle. Delete any photos that are blurred, fuzzy or unusable immediately right after taking pictures.

Store photos you can’t separate from via the Mac on an external hard drive or in the cloud.

Get used to not capturing every second of your life in photos. Less is more. Enjoy the moment.

7. Clean Up contacts

When was the last time you looked through your contacts? If you can’t assign a face to a name, it’s time to say goodbye.

We hope to have helped you with our tips. It is advisable to check iPhone storage from time to time and check, where a lot of storage is consumed.

Here are our clean-up tips for the Mac: 10 easy tips to declutter your Mac.

Sincerely yours
Simpleum Team

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10 easy tips to declutter your Mac

1. Email

Cleaning up the inbox is only a challenge if you have accumulated countless emails. Get used to creating regular order in your Inbox.

Delete
Delete all emails that you no longer need.

Archive
Archive emails with a suitable folder system. Use only a few folders.

Answer
Get used to answering emails immediately if you don’t need more than five minutes for the answer. If you need more time, sort the mail into a “work in progress” folder that you work on on a regular basis.

Unsubscribe from Newsletters
Do you regularly find newsletters in your inbox that you don’t read? Sign off. You can do it manually by simply searching for the word “unsubscribe” in your inbox.

Reduce email accounts
Try to reduce your Emailaccounts to two. (Professional/private)

2. Tidy up the desk

The desktop feels like a real desk: if it’s a mess, you’ll be restless inside.
Try to sort all the files on the desktop into two folders. This creates an overview. Give the new folders a date as the file name and sort the files in the folders weekly.

The so-called stacks have been introduced with the MacOS 10.14 Mojave operating system. Stacks for the desktop can organize the desktop by automatically stacking files into neat groups based on file type. Finder > View > Stacks

Dock icons clean up
Which programs do you really use regularly? Remove all icons for the programs from the dock that you rarely use.

3. Files and folders

Regularly sort your files and documents. What you use very rarely, store on external hard drives. Try to use as few folders as possible. Avoid too many sub-folders.
For example, a subfolder can be called “archive” and you can put everything in it that you cannot allocate. Just because you need to manage many different documents and topics does not require that every file got his own folder.
Spotlight helps you to search for your files.

All files that you cannot immediately associate with move into two folders at the end.
One is to “drop” and the second “to sort”. Get used to cleaning up these two folders on a regular basis.

4. Delete Software/Apps

Which apps do you really use regularly? If you haven’t used apps in the past three months, delete them.

5. Empty the download folder and trash

Periodically empty the trash and create order in the download folder. Delete unnecessary DMG images and zip files here.

6. Free up storage space

Choose “About This Mac” from the Apple menu and click “Storage”. You’ll see an overview of your free space and the space used by different categories of files. Click the “Manage” button to see recommendations for optimizing your storage.

7. Browser Cleanup (Safari)

Delete old bookmarks
It’s nice to have a link ready in case of cases. But when do these cases really occur? Clear out your bookmarks.
Open Safari and in the menu “Bookmarks”. After selecting “Edit Bookmarks”, you can delete (right-click) or move to folders conveniently.

Keep only the bookmarks that you really use on a regular basis.

8. RSS

Sort blogs and RSS feeds you don’t longer read.

9. Photos

You do not have to keep every photo. And not the same motif shot from a different angle. Clear up. Delete any photos that are blurred, fuzzy or unusable immediately. Try to delete them in the camera.
Save photos that you can’t separate on an external hard drive or in the cloud.
Get used to not capturing every second of your life. Remember less is more. Enjoy the moment.

10. Clean Up contacts

When was the last time you looked through your contacts? If you can’t assign a face to a name, it’s time to say goodbye.

We hope to have helped you with our tips. Just stay tuned and clear out your Mac regularly.

Sincerely yours Simpleum Team

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