Vacation Video Review
One trip can outweigh a year of photographs. A few minutes of 4K footage runs to gigabytes, so the fastest way back to free space is to review the videos first.
Free up 10 GB of trip video
- Target
- 10 GB
- Runs
- July 15 to August 31
- Status
- Running now, to August 31
Free up 10 GB, or review the whole seasonal queue. Either one completes the challenge, so you never have to delete a photo you wanted in order to finish.
Start the challenge in CleanorWhy this moment feels timely
Vacation videos are the heaviest files most iPhones ever hold, and they tend to sit untouched until the phone starts refusing to record. By then the trip is over and the footage has become a wall of clips nobody has opened since the flight home.
Cleanor sorts the camera roll by weight, so the longest clips and the repeated takes surface first instead of staying buried under thousands of photographs. You watch, you decide, and nothing leaves the device without you seeing it.
Where Cleanor helps first
The clutter worth going after this season, and a sensible order to do it in.
What Cleanor looks at
- Your largest videos, sorted by size
- Repeated clips of the same scene
- Near-identical photo bursts from the trip
- Storage recovered before the next trip
How to approach it
- Start with the largest files rather than the oldest. A handful of long clips usually accounts for more space than thousands of photos.
- Watch the first few seconds of each long video before deciding. Most trips produce several takes of the same view, and only one of them is worth keeping.
- Do the photo bursts last. They are the easy part once the heavy footage is out of the way.
Why this is worth doing now
The arithmetic of a trip is lopsided. A thousand vacation photos might come to two or three gigabytes. Twenty minutes of 4K video, shot in a handful of long clips you have not opened since, can match that on its own. This is why deleting photos after a trip so often feels pointless: the number barely moves, because the photos were never the problem.
Start where the weight is. Cleanor lists the largest videos first, which usually turns out to be the same view recorded three times, the panning shot that did not work, and the six minutes of a harbour you meant to trim on the plane. Keeping the one that came out well costs you nothing, and letting the other two go is where the gigabytes come back.
Nothing here is deleted on your behalf. Every clip is shown before it goes, because a holiday is exactly the footage you cannot re-shoot, and a one-tap cleaner that guesses which take was the good one is not a trade worth making. Review it once, keep the trip, and get back the room for whatever you point the camera at next.
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