Six apps to declutter your iOS device
Clear out the cruft and bring some order to your digital life
No matter how hard we try, we all accumulate far too much fluff on our iOS devices. That’s compounded the longer we use them, with duplicate photos, incomplete contacts, and tons of unwanted emails flooding our devices and eating up precious storage space. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Add a few handy apps to your arsenal and you can quickly reclaim the space and declutter your device for good. Here, we have rounded up six apps that do just that — and best of all, most of them are free. Set them loose on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and your digital life will be the most ordered and organized it has ever been.
CLEAN EMAIL Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
We all accumulate email newsletters, spam, and messages we no longer need to keep. Clean Email scans your inbox (while protecting your privacy) and sorts your messages into categories for easy clean–up. There’s a bulk newsletter unsubscribe tool, plus smart filters and rules to aid scanning. You can even automate to save time in the future.
UNIBOX Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Most email clients quickly become a mess, with multiple messages from multiple senders clogging up your inbox. Unibox takes its cues from instant messaging apps, with your inbox grouped by sender. Messages and attachments are grouped under each person’s name, so it’s simple to find what you’re looking for and easier to sort through the noise.
CARDHOP $4.99 Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
When adding new contacts to your iOS device, if you have a lot of information to add for multiple people it can often feel laborious. By making the process simple, Cardhop helps keep everything neat and orderly. That’s thanks in large part to its support for natural language, making data–entry easy. It also offers smart groups, quick action buttons, and more.
CLEANER PRO Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
The Contacts app can be an untidy place. Upgrading your phone and importing contacts can be particularly bothersome, resulting in a horde of duplicate and half–empty contacts. Cleaner Pro finds and merges these problem contacts. It does everything in a safe and reversible way, too, so you can always change your mind and undo its work.
GEMINI PHOTOS Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
What Cleaner Pro does for contacts, Gemini Photos does for, well, photos. Not only does it scan for exact copies, but it can also unearth similar photos, screenshots, notes, blurred pictures, and other images you might want to remove. It can also suggest large videos that you may no longer need. Removing the excess takes just a couple of taps.
SCREENSHOT PRO Free (IAPs) Made for iPhone, iPad
While Gemini Photos can clear out unneeded screenshots, Screenshot PRO goes an extra step and helps you sort them. You can search for text inside your images and export it, add tags, notes, and links; compress large images; lock pictures up with Face ID or Touch ID; and much more. It’s ideal if you just want to organize your images into a manageable collection rather than delete them.