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Rossen Reports: Free up space and save money with this phone hack

Rossen Reports: Free up space and save money with this phone hack
ah yeah there is an easy way to free up some space on your phone so you don't have to pay for more storage as you scroll through your iphone library. Do you ever notice that you get like duplicates of the same picture? I mean even though you like seeing yourself multiple times either you press the button too many times when taking *** picture, you know, duplicates just happen when they're sinking errors but they take up *** lot of space. So here's how you can clean this up nice and easy. So you don't have to spend more. Open the photos app right over here, open the photos app, select albums all the way at the bottom, scroll down and select duplicate. It's under utilities and look at all of these. Now, tap the merge button here on the side and merging them combines the highest quality version and all the data in your library. I'm gonna post these steps for the iphone and also for android. Don't worry. And we hear from the android people I know we're gonna post about android on my website, Rawson Reports dot com. Back to you
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Rossen Reports: Free up space and save money with this phone hack
There's an easy way to free up some space on your phone, so you don't have to pay for more storage. As you scroll through your iPhone library – you might notice duplicates of the same picture. Why does this happen? Either you pressed the button too many times when taking a picture, or duplicates happen when there are syncing errors. But they take up a lot of space. Rossen Reports has the steps on how to clean this up. iPhone steps:Open the photos app.Select “Albums.”Scroll to the bottom and select “duplicates” under Utilities.Tap “merge” on the photos you want to merge.Or you can tap “Select” followed by “select all.”Then tap “Merge” at the bottom to do it for all of the photos.Merging will keep one version of each duplicate set that combines the highest quality and relevant data, and moves the rest to Recently Deleted. Android steps:If you don’t already have this, download “Files” from the Google Play store. (It’s free!)Open the Files by Google app.Select “Clean.”Tap “Confirm and free up” then “See junk files” and select what you want to clear.

There's an easy way to free up some space on your phone, so you don't have to pay for more storage.

As you scroll through your iPhone library – you might notice duplicates of the same picture.

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Why does this happen? Either you pressed the button too many times when taking a picture, or duplicates happen when there are syncing errors. But they take up a lot of space.

Rossen Reports has the steps on how to clean this up.

iPhone steps:

  • Open the photos app.
  • Select “Albums.”
  • Scroll to the bottom and select “duplicates” under Utilities.
  • Tap “merge” on the photos you want to merge.
  • Or you can tap “Select” followed by “select all.”
  • Then tap “Merge” at the bottom to do it for all of the photos.

Merging will keep one version of each duplicate set that combines the highest quality and relevant data, and moves the rest to Recently Deleted.

Android steps:

  • If you don’t already have this, download “Files” from the Google Play store. (It’s free!)
  • Open the Files by Google app.
  • Select “Clean.”
  • Tap “Confirm and free up” then “See junk files” and select what you want to clear.