I Stopped Letting Photos Pile Up on My Phone: This Routine Keeps Me Clutter-Free
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Summary
Auditing favourited photos each month and critically assessing whether they are truly wanted is one way to stop photos cluttering a phone, according to the author of this piece.
They also recommend deleting images from the Screenshots folder, which is a default iPhone feature that is often used for temporary images and so is easily forgotten about, taking up valuable phone space.
Deleting duplicate files is also advisable, especially as these are often the ones that take up the most space and lead to upgraded iCloud faster.
The author recommends clearing out photos at the end of each trip by reviewing everything and sending anything that others might want to see to ensure that nothing important is accidentally deleted; everything else gets removed.
Choosing photos to store in cloud software is recommended, such as Google Drive and Dropbox, as opposed to keeping them all on the phone.
Another organisational tip is to search photos based on the camera used as it is often easier to delete images from a specific device rather than as a whole.
The author also suggests a tip for those who regularly take multiple images and send the best ones to others: just keep one version of each image and remove the rest.
