Running low on space on your iPhone? Just rent a movie on iTunes and get a few
gigabytes of space.
People who are using Apple’s 16GB iPhone variants tend to run out of storage. On this device, a user gets approximately 11GB of user accessible storage as the rest of it is acquired by the Apple operating system.
According to a thread on social forum, Reddit, there is one crazy trick you can try to reclaim some of the used-up space.
Search for a film which is bigger than the space left on your phone. For example, if the available space is 4GB, choose a movie whose file size is greater than 4GB.
Click “Rent” at the top of the page. You will not be charged as the phone does not have enough space to download it. A message will appear saying “you don’t have enough available storage”.
After clicking “OK”, head back to settings and check your available storage again. You will see a significant increase in the available storage space. You can repeat the entire process a few times.
However, reports suggest that the trick is unclear and may have something to do with storage clean up of caches and apps.
Check how much storage is left and then head to the iTunes Store.
To see how the trick works, go to Settings > General > About and scroll down to “Available”.
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