Before You Buy More Storage

In late November a full phone stops being an annoyance and turns into a purchase. A bigger device, or a bigger monthly plan, both offered at a discount and both fixing the symptom rather than the cause.

It is worth one session to find out whether you actually need the storage. Reviewing duplicates and large videos gives you a real answer, and quite often the answer is that the tier you already have was fine.

Here is one question worth asking in a week designed to prevent anyone from asking it. Before paying for more space, what is the current space holding? If a meaningful share of it is the same photograph stored several times over, plus videos nobody has opened in two years, then the upgrade is not buying capacity. It is buying room for repetition, at a discount.

Cleanor answers that in a single review session. Duplicates, near-identical shots, and the largest videos come first, because that is where the weight is. What comes out the other side is not a promise about how much you will save. It is a number, taken from your own library, and it is the number the purchase decision should be made against.

Some people will look at that number and buy the larger tier anyway, and that is a perfectly good outcome. Four thousand photographs you want to keep are four thousand photographs, and no amount of reviewing changes what they weigh. The only thing worth avoiding is paying every month for the ones you did not want, in a week when the discount makes it easy not to check.