Thursday, July 17, 2025

Fixing “Optimize Storage”

Ryan Jones:

I am so out of patience for “Optimize Storage” on Apple devices.

Now I have to take half my day to figure out how to reduce Photos and Messages without nuking them.

My best solution: Disconnect iCloud Photos. That will delete all local photo copies. Then reconnect it. 🤷‍♂️

That worked. All local photos were offloaded.

Except for the Shared With You stuff from Messages.

Alex Greenland:

Yesss! My biggest gripe. With Photos and iCloud Drive on macOS and iOS.

“Optimise Storage” should leave me with comfortable space, not just leaving me a few gigs of headroom.

It’s like it tries to fill up your disk first, then takes files away, but never enough.

I think both Photos and Messages should have settings to specify the number of GB to cache locally.

Nick Spreen:

I feel like that’s not really a problem in comparison to 300gb system data

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