1- Settings > Camera > Formats > Turn Apple ProRes ON
2- Turn off WiFi (you’ll essentially be taking a very very long video and you don’t want to back up to your iCloud as you’ll be deleting it later)
3- Go to your camera and go into video mode. Turn on Pro Res on the top left, then change from 30 to 60FPS on the top right
4- you will notice it tells you how many minutes you can shoot in this mode before your storage gets full. The goal is to shoot a video for that amount of time where as long as it will let you until you get the message “free resources“
Make sure you take a video for the maximum amount it lets you. Once you select free resources, it seems that the first thing the phone clears out is those hidden cache files in system data. I did this and went from 70GB system data to 15GB which seems appropriate.
If you have a 128 or 256 gig iPhone, do you need to maximize that so just shoot as long as video as you can make sure your phone is plugged in to your charger as well just to be safe. Hope this helps everyone else!
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Reply to Any ideas on how to reduce this? by scomdnax
Must have 13/14 Pro or Pro Max
1- Settings > Camera > Formats > Turn Apple ProRes ON
2- Turn off WiFi (you’ll essentially be taking a very very long video and you don’t want to back up to your iCloud as you’ll be deleting it later)
3- Go to your camera and go into video mode. Turn on Pro Res on the top left, then change from 30 to 60FPS on the top right
4- you will notice it tells you how many minutes you can shoot in this mode before your storage gets full. The goal is to shoot a video for that amount of time where as long as it will let you until you get the message “free resources“ Make sure you take a video for the maximum amount it lets you. Once you select free resources, it seems that the first thing the phone clears out is those hidden cache files in system data. I did this and went from 70GB system data to 15GB which seems appropriate.
If you have a 128 or 256 gig iPhone, do you need to maximize that so just shoot as long as video as you can make sure your phone is plugged in to your charger as well just to be safe. Hope this helps everyone else!