A new trick helps you reclaim space when you're running low on your iPhone

A trick from Reddit that promises to circulate on the net these days free up space on our iPhone When we are running out of it, the trick is somewhat elaborate and unconscious since it would activate a system mechanism that is not available to the user for manual activation.

This trick is very useful especially for those who have a 16GB device, since they are prone to running out of space before the rest, and it would make the iPhone itself cleaned its "junk files" or cache of applications that are useless or are not essential, in this way we can recover even a few GB of space.

The trick is very simple and consists of cheat the system, for this we should try to rent a movie that takes up more space than we have available, for example The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers o Mars (The Martian) that occupy about 6GB in its FullHD version.

Once this is done, and since we do not have enough space, the system will show a message advising that we do not have enough space to complete the process, and the rent will not be made.

After that, the cleaning system will start working and will begin to empty some caches to try to recover space.

This is not at all new, it is part of a news that has already emerged a long time ago, I would say that since iOS 5, and it is part of that strange event in which some social network apps (such as Facebook, especially this one), changed the name of your icon to "Cleaning…" and they could not be opened during the process, this is not urban legends, it really happens although it is very difficult to see it, and more so now when the storage chips of our devices are so fast that the erasure is done in just seconds.

The process can be repeated as many times as desired, whenever an attempt is made to download a file larger than the remaining available space on our device.

Formerly there was an application in the AppStore that said to clean the caches of our device, and what it really did was fill the free space with random data until there was no space left, then iOS activated this self-cleaning mechanism and the system itself was the one that cleaned itself, it's something that few people know, I even talked about it to those responsible for AVG at the past Mobile World Congress after they told me that they are preparing a cleaning application for iPhone.

Unfortunately it seems that Apple does not allow these types of actions in an application within your store, it may be because they indirectly interfere with the information stored by others by deleting files, something that I believe violates the rules of the App Store.

Anyway, it is a process that works and that has been used by many apps and programs, as it is currently also used by the cleaning program iMyfone, a program for Windows and OS X that among its functions one of them writes a file that fills the memory of the device with random information until it is in charge of clearing its own caches.

If you have tried it, tell us, has it worked for you?

Via - Reddit