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you know what I hate when you're just about ready to download a new app on your phone but you just don't have enough space to do so what's even worse is that you don't even know what's taking up room on your phone or you do know what's taking up room but you're just not ready to get rid of your favorite apps or songs I'm going to show you a few ways to free up space on your phone on iPhones using iOS 7 you'll want to go into settings tap general tap usage and from here you can see how much space is available on your phone how much is being used and after a few moments of calculation you'll get a breakdown of how much storage each app is taken up so from here you can see every app installed on your phone and you can decide which ones you're going to keep and which ones you're going to get rid of for example I was in Spain a few months ago but I'm really not using my spanish-language app as much as I'd like to so I'm gonna get rid of it and here's how you do that so go back to your home screen find the app do a long tap on it until it starts dancing you get this little X icon tap the X then tap delete and then you tap remove to confirm and then click the home button after you're done another thing that takes up tons of room on your phone music but the great thing is that you don't even need these songs stored on your phone in order to listen to them as long as you have an internet connection you can delete any song you want and then stream it that takes up zero space for photos you'll want to back them up first by connecting your phone to your computer so on androids pretty much the exact same process if you have a lot of music or photos on your phone deleting those will give you a lot more space so how do you figure out what's taking up space on your phone well you go into settings tap storage and then you'll see the total space how much space you have available and you'll see how much apps are taken up so if I tap on apps I'll get a list of all the apps installed on my phone I can tap on one and get a little bit more information and also uninstall from here one of the cool things about having an Android device is that you can download a file manager one of the best is ES File Explorer which allows you to better organize an access to files and apps on your phone so those are some quick and easy tips on how to free up space in your phone so that next time you won't have to scramble we want to make room for that latest greatest app more tips and tricks like this go to how to cnet.com