How to free up my iPhone storage?

Hi bledsoe20,

We'll be glad to go over your storage with you. To answer your initial question, in modern times 16GB of storage can be filled relatively quickly. Aside from that, you can check your device's storage and remove anything not absolutely necessary on your device to free up space. The steps to do this are outlined here: How to check the storage on your iPhone and iPad

"Use your device to check its storage

1. Go to Settings > General > [Device] Storage. You might see a list of recommendations for optimizing your device's storage, followed by a list of installed apps and the amount of storage each one uses.
2. Tap an app's name for more information about its storage. Cached data and temporary data might not be counted as usage.

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We hope this clears things up.

Cheers.

16 GB is relatively small by modern standards, particularly if you store a lot of media on your device.

Click on the link to learn how to optimize the storage on a device --> How to check the storage on your iPhone and iPad - Apple Support

If your device is low on storage, optimization automatically frees up space while installing an app, updating iOS or iPadOS, downloading music, recording videos, and more.

To make more storage available, your device can remove some of your items, like streamed music and videos, files in iCloud Drive, and parts of apps that aren't needed. It also removes temporary files and clears the cache on your device. But your device only removes items that can be downloaded again or that aren't needed anymore.

Note that you will very likely need to suscibe to additional iCloud storage so you have room for the items stored off your device.

Geee, so nice to see a Community Specialist echoing everything I said. ;-)