Why Photos and Videos Sent Via Texts Should Be Stored in iCloud Photos
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 7/23/2016 1:00:00 AM
If your iPhone keeps running out of space... it may be because of photos and videos in the text / messaging app.
The iCloud Photos App does an amazing job of managing storage so that you can have potentially tens of thousands of photos and videos on a device with as little as 16 GB of storage. This is because the iCloud Photos App only needs to keep thumbnails or lower resolution versions of your media on your device until you tap them to get a higher resolution version.
I discovered this recently when a neighbor asked me to figure out why she couldn't take any photos, or read her emails on her iPhone. I checked her space, and she literally had zero bytes of space left. After digging further, I noticed she had almost no music, and didn't have many photos in her iCloud Photo Library... I also noticed she was paying for at least 50 GB of iCloud storage, but most of that space was empty.
With all that space in iCloud, and very few photos and videos in her iCloud Photos Library, I couldn't figure out why she was out of space. Then I discovered that the Text Messaging App was taking up almost 10GB of space, mostly because of photos and videos of her grandchildren that were sent via text.
That's when I realized that Apple should store the photos and videos sent via text in the iCloud Photos Library. Had they been stored there, instead of the Messaging App, they would've been stored as thumbnails, which use a fraction of the space.
The only way to get back that space now is to save each photo and video one by one, which is tedious, because there isn't a way to select them all, then save them to your iCloud Photos Library, then delete them from the Messaging App. If they were stored in iCloud Photos by default, they could remain in the Messaging App, so they remain part of the conversation, but they wouldn't take up any additional space.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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