Kept guides
Plain-English guides to clearing space on your iPhone — without losing what matters. Written by the team behind Kept.
- How to free up storage on iPhone without losing your memories
A step-by-step guide to clearing space on a full iPhone — find what's eating storage, clear photos safely, and keep the shots that matter.
- How to delete duplicate photos on iPhone (and what Apple’s tool misses)
Apple’s built-in Duplicates finds exact copies for free. Here’s how to use it — and how to clear the near-duplicate bursts and blurry shots it misses.
- iPhone storage still full after deleting photos? Here’s why
You deleted photos but your iPhone storage didn’t drop. The usual reasons — Recently Deleted, System Data, iCloud — and how to actually reclaim the space.
- How to delete blurry photos on iPhone (without scrolling for hours)
iOS has no built-in blurry-photo finder. How to spot and delete blurry shots by hand — and how Kept pre-judges them on-device.
- How to delete burst photos on iPhone: keep the best frame, drop the rest
Bursts hide dozens of near-identical frames in one stack. Find the Bursts album, keep only your favorites, and reclaim the space they quietly eat.
- How to delete screenshots on iPhone (and bulk-delete them fast)
Your Screenshots album fills with receipts, memes and saved info. Find it, multi-select fast, and bulk-delete safely — plus a faster way to swipe through them.
- How to find large videos eating storage on your iPhone
Long 4K and slo-mo videos are the biggest files on most iPhones. Find them with iPhone Storage and Photos — and clear the heaviest ones safely.
- iCloud storage vs iPhone storage: what’s the difference?
iCloud storage is the cloud plan you pay for; iPhone storage is the space on the phone. How they differ, what Optimize Storage does, and why your phone fills up anyway.
- How to delete all photos of one person on iPhone (gently, and for good)
Clearing photos of an ex or someone you’ve grown apart from? The manual People album route, why it misses shots — and how to gather every photo of one person in one calm pass.
- Best free photo cleaner for iPhone (2026): what to look for
What iOS already does for free, how to spot the hidden weekly-subscription trap, and a checklist for choosing a cleaner you can trust.