One of the best ways to free up storage on the iPhone is staring at you in the face

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Messages take up over a gigabyte of storage on this iPhone.

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Your iPhone's Messages app is a hidden storage hog.

Thankfully, video and audio message delete themselves after a couple minutes by default, but regular messages, pictures, and GIFs don't, and they can take a lot of space if you don't delete them.

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Messages are set to never delete themselves by default, but you can set them to delete after 30 days in your iPhone's settings.

Here's how:

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