iPhone Storage Filling Up? Here’s How to Manage High-Quality Music Streaming
iPhone users enjoying lossless audio from services like Apple Music or Spotify may find their device storage rapidly diminishing. While superior sound quality is appealing, the larger file sizes associated with lossless formats can quickly consume available space. Fortunately,a simple settings adjustment can mitigate this issue.
The ability to stream music in lossless quality arrived with iOS 14.6 for Apple Music subscribers, and Spotify followed suit with it’s HiFi tier (currently unreleased, but planned). These formats deliver a more faithful reproduction of the original recording, but at a significant cost in storage. Users can reclaim gigabytes by disabling lossless audio or optimizing download settings, balancing audio fidelity with practical device capacity.
Here’s how to adjust your iPhone settings:
- Open the Settings app and navigate to Apps.
- Select Music.
- Tap Audio Quality.
- Disable the Lossless Audio toggle.
For those wishing to retain lossless streaming, selecting High Quality in the Downloads section minimizes storage impact when downloading music for offline listening.
Apple’s support documentation and tech publications like Applesfera offer further guidance on managing Apple Music subscriptions and iOS updates. (https://www.applesfera.com/tutoriales/quieres-seis-meses-gratis-de-apple-music-asi-puedes-tener-musica-sin-perdida-en-tu-iphone-sin-pagar-hasta-la-proxima-keynote) and (https://www.applesfera.com/nuevo/ios-19-informacion).
