How to delete old Apple Watch backups
If you’re obsessed with optimizing the internal storage of your iPhone and want to remove everything that doesn’t serve you, you probably don’t know that the Apple Watch makes backups every few months that eventually take up a lot of space on your iPhone. If you want to get rid of them , this article explains how you can remove these backups.
Especially if you have an iPhone with 64GB of internal storage, you’re interested in having as clean a computer as possible so you can use that space to put more photos or other apps.
In order to remove these residual backups you simply need to follow the steps below:
- On your iPhone, you must go to Settings , General , iPhone Storage.
- Once we are in the Storage tab, we can see a bar where we can see the space occupied by each of the categories. If we go down it will be broken down by application and we should look for ‘Watch’.
- When you click on ‘Watch’ you will see that at the bottom there is a list of all the backups that are stored on the iPhone.
- To delete them, we can do it one by one to keep the oldest one, or directly delete all these backups by clicking on ‘Delete all copies’.
Our smart clock normally backs up when we have installed a new operating system update, but it also backs up periodically when it feels convenient. Although it’s true that some of these end up removing many of them, and that’s why if you have an old clock you’ll have a significant amount of space taken up by these backups.
Of course, we recommend that you continue to back up your Apple Watch data, but it’s important to clean up these copies in maintenance mode. In the long run the team will be quite grateful to us, especially when we want to download Apple Arcade games for example.
In this same storage information window on our iPhone we can find many interesting facts. At the beginning we have some recommended actions such as the possibility of removing applications that we don’t use or examine the videos downloaded from applications such as Netflix.
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