Getting a new iPhone can be a really exciting moment in someone’s life, and it’s best to be prepared for setting it up.
Setting up your iPhone might seem like a straightforward process, but your first moments with your device are actually pretty crucial. Aside from entering your information, setting up your calendar, contacts, and more, it’s also important to make a few small changes that can help optimize your user experience, saving you storage space and keeping your battery healthy. That can include deleting preinstalled apps that likely will not end up serving you. Read more about the ones tech pros suggest getting rid of early on below.
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1. iMovie & GarageBand
Of course, there are some people out there who are artistic creatives and want to use their iPhones to make music and movies. However, many musicians or filmmakers would agree that they prefer to create these things on better platforms and using different devices aside from their phones. If you have little to no interest in writing songs or making movies from your smartphone, then tech experts suggest getting rid of these two apps for storage reasons.
"GarageBand pre-loads sound libraries and instrument samples, totaling 1.6 GB, regardless of whether the user composes," notes tech research expert Hanna Parkhots.
2. Apple Music
These days, many smartphone users belong to some kind of music streaming service. Still, the two biggest tend to be Spotify and Apple Music, with lots of subscribers and large catalogs of music. If you don't use either one or lean towards Spotify, then to clear up some room on your iPhone to help it run faster, you should go ahead and delete Apple Music or Music.
"Even if you primarily stream, the app builds up cached album art, recommendations, and sometimes offline downloads, which can quietly eat up several gigabytes," says tech pro Paarath Sharma.
