You can keep some tracks on your device, while
others download on demand.
online account linked to the app). If you
want to delete only some content, you
will usually need to do that from within
the app.2
Prune your tunes
The Music app is a special case, in
that it lets you manage its content directly
from Settings > General > Storage. Tap
Music here and all your tracks are listed
below the Offload and Delete options.
They’re shown in alphabetical order by
artist, because... look, they just are, OK?
Tap Edit to show red minus icons that you
can use to remove everything by a
particular artist, perhaps because they’ve
just been cancelled on Twitter. Or tap an
artist to drill down and select albums or
tracks to offload.
If the track was synced to your iPhone
from your Mac, it’ll disappear, but may
resync later unless you change your sync
options in macOS (from the iTunes app inearlier versions, or the Finder in Catalina).
Tracks that are synced from the iTunes
Store, Apple Music or iTunes Match will
still appear in the Music app after you
remove them, with a cloud icon to
redownload them.3
Optimize photo
storage
Running out of space on your iPhone? Got
hundreds of photos sat on it? Already have
iCloud Photos turned on? Well, if all your
photos are in iCloud now, surely you can
start deleting some off your phone to save
space? Wait...
This is exactly what you shouldn’t
be thinking! iCloud Photos syncs all
changes across your devices. So when you
take a photo on your iPhone, it appears in
iCloud Photos and everywhere that iCloud
Photos syncs to. Equally, when you delete
a photo from your iPhone, it disappears
from iCloud Photos and everywhere that1
Turn on iCloud Backup
Open Settings and tap your name,
then iCloud, then iCloud Backup. Turn the
switch on. Your device will back itself up
daily whenever it has power and internet
— as long as your iCloud storage has
room for your backup.
2
Check iCloud storage
The chart at the top shows how
full it is. You’ll need much less space
than your device’s storage: see bit.ly/
apple-icloudbackup. Tap Manage Storage
for more details and the option to buy
more iCloud storage.3
Restore from backup
If you wipe your device or buy
a replacement, you’ll be asked when
starting it up if you want to restore from
a backup. You do! Select your iCloud
backup and restore it. It’s OK if the new
device isn’t the same model.HOW TO Back up your device to iCloud (in iOS)
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