Smaller Photos, Bigger Storage: 8 Effective Methods for iPhone Photo Size Reduction (iOS 16 Supported)

The quality of iPhone camera is not in doubt as they come out very clear and crisp. However, one problem is that they can be large, which ends up taking a lot of storage space on your device. The iPhone photo size will likely vary depending on the type of camera used to take the photo. However, one thing to note is that they can be anywhere from 1.3 MB to as high as 4 MB in size and even more if the HDR feature of iPhone is used. Whatever the case, this takes a large chunk of your storage space which is not very good for your device.

How to Reduce iPhone Photo Size

There are many ways to resize your iPhone photos to make them smaller in order to reduce the space it takes, let us see some of them.

Method 1: Compress All iPhone Photos without Loss of Quality

There are some apps that allow you resize your photos on iPhone, which is the simplest and fastest way to make photos smaller. You can free download it and use it to make your photos less mb. Among them, iMyFone Umate Pro - professional iPhone photo compressor – is much recommended. It does all the jobs in just one tap.

How to Compress iPhone Photos with Umate Pro

The beauty of the Umate Pro is that the process of compressing photos is just very easy and can be achieved in a matter of minutes. The following are the step by step guide to make iPhone photos smaller.

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to Computer. Click Photos from the home interface.

Step 2: Click on Backup & Compress: This will ensure that all your original photos is backed up on the PC for safety.

It will start transfer original photos to PC and compressing iPhone photos. At the end about 75% of photos storage is freed. Here are the size of those photos used, before and after compressing them:

• Photo 1 was 5.76MB, now is 1.44MB

• Photo 2 was 3.56MB, now is 0.89MB

The iMyFone iPhone photo manager is the best way to manage as well as organize your photos in such a way that it saves a whole lot of space on your device which in turn improve its efficiency. iMyFone is trusted by thousands of users (every year) and reported by well-known medias, such as macworld.co.uk, Makeuseof.com, Cultofmac.com etc.

Method 2: Reduce Photo Size on iPhone via Mail

This is one way you can make your photos smaller especially if you are sending them through mail. It is important to note that whenever you attach photo to an email on your iPhone, it always ask you if you would like to resize the photo before sending them.

1. Open Photos app on your iPhone. Go to Photos tab at the bottom.
2. Tap Select at the top right corner. Select the photos you want to compress.
3. Tap the Send icon at the bottom left corner.



4. Choose Mail icon. Then type your email address.
5. Tap Share and it will ask you to choose the compressed sizes, including large, medium, small and the actual size.
6. After that, login your email on your iPhone. Download the pictures from email to your camera roll. You may want to delete the original photos from iPhone.

Disadvantages of Using Mail:

• It's limited to send up to 9 photos at a time.
• You need to send the photos, download compressed ones and also delete the original photos.
• It takes much time especially when you have a huge photo library.

Method 3: Resize Photos via Chat Apps

You can make your iPhone photos smaller by using chat apps like WeChat, Messenger and WhatsApp. This is because these apps naturally compress photos shared through them. What you need to do is to send these photos to yourself through the app and download the smaller photos it produces.

For example, resize photos via WhatsApp:

Before you try, you need to go to Settings > Privacy > Photos and turn on WhatsApp.

1. Open WhatsApp on your iPhone.
2. Go to Chats tab at the bottom. Tap edit icon at the top right corner.
3. Find yourself account there. Send some photos to yourself.
4. Then tap one photo and it will open in full-mode. Tap the Share button at the bottom left corner.
5. Tap Save and the photo will be downloaded to your camera roll. You can find the photos in the WhatsApp album.

Disadvantages:

• You are limited to send at large 9 photos at a time.
• You need to download the compressed photos one by one.
• Of course, you need to delete original photos by yourself.
• The photos will be downloaded into WhatsApp album but not in your camera roll.

Method 4: How to Automatically Crop iPhone Photos

1. Open your iPhone, open Photos app.
2. Browse and select the photo you want to crop.
3. Tap Edit icon.



4. Tap the crop icon which looks like a square with two arrows around it at the bottom.
5. Just above the Done icon, you can see superposed squares, tap on it.
6. Choose the size you prefer and tap Done. It will save to your camera roll.

Keep in mind that the crop will also save the original version of the picture. You can change the crop back again to normal. So cropping a photo does make the picture smaller.

Method 5: How to Manually Crop an iPhone Photo

Or you can manually press and drag the crop border to share what you want or reduce them into whatever size.

1. Open Photos app on iPhone.
2. Select the photo you want to crop.
3. Click Edit icon at the top right corner.



4. Tap the crop icon which looks like a square with two squares.
5. You can now manually crop the photo by pressing and dragging the corners and edges of the photo.
6. Tap Done.

Method 6: How to Compress the Whole Photo Library

Compressing photo library is different from compressing photos. Compressing photos will reduce the photo space while compressing photo library does reduce the photo size of the original version.

Please connect your iPhone to Wi-Fi first.

1. On your iPhone, open Settings app.
2. Go to [your name] > iCloud > Photos on iOS 15 or later, or iCloud > Photos on iOS 14
3. Turn on iCloud Photo Library and select Optimise iPhone Storage.

That's all there is to it. All your photos will be uploaded to your iCloud and space-saving version are kept on your device, which will reduce the occupied space by the whole photo library.

Method 7: Adjust the Camera Settings to reduce photo size on an iPhone

1. Open the "Settings" app on your iPhone.

2. Scroll down and tap on "Camera".

3. Under the "Camera" settings, select "Formats".

4. Choose "High Efficiency" instead of "Most Compatible" to capture photos in a more efficient format, reducing file size.

Method 8: Use Online Photo Compression Tools to reduce photo size on an iPhone

Open a web browser on your iPhone.

Search for online photo compression tools like "TinyPNG" or "CompressJPEG".

Visit the website and upload the photo you want to compress.

Follow the instructions provided to initiate the compression process.

Download the compressed photo to your device.

Conclusion