How to View Downloads on Iphone

This article will show you how to view your iPhone’s storage usage and downloaded music and apps on iPhone.

Table of Contents

See capacity

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Open Settings on iPhone. This is the gray gear icon on the home screen.

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Tap General ( General ). This button is located at the top of the Settings page.

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Tap Storage & iCloud Usage ( Storage & iCloud Usage ). You’ll find this option near the bottom of the screen when you open General .

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Click Manage Storage under “Storage”. This is the first Manage Storage option on the page.

The bottom part of the information belongs to iCloud. iCloud downloads will not be stored directly on iPhone.

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Scroll through the stored information. Here, you’ll see a list of the apps available on your phone. The space occupied is shown to the right of each app (for example, 1 GB or 500 MB).

Because iPhones don’t have a “Downloads” (“Downloads”) folder, any downloads (e.g. documents) count toward their respective app sizes (e.g., Messages attachments) will count towards the space occupied by Messages).

View downloaded playlists

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Open the Music section on iPhone. It’s a multicolored musical note icon on a white background.

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Tap Downloaded Music ( Downloaded Music ). It’s above the “Recently Added” heading on the Library page.

You may have to tap Library in the lower-left corner of the screen first .

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Tap an option. Includes the following items:

Playlists
Artist
Albums
Song

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Scroll down for a quick glance at downloaded tracks. Music currently on the iPhone’s hard drive will appear here.

View downloaded apps

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Open the App Store (App Store) on iPhone. It’s a white “A” on a light blue background.

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Click Updates ( Updates ). This option is located in the lower right corner of the screen.

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Click Purchased ( Purchased ). This button is located at the top of the screen.

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Tap My Purchases ( My Purchases ).

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View downloaded apps. Any app with an OPEN entry on the right side is an existing app on the phone, while apps with a cloud and a down arrow next to it are downloaded apps. before that is no longer stored on your phone.

You can also tap Not on This Phone at the top of this page to see any apps you’ve previously purchased (or downloaded) that are no longer on your phone.

Advice

There is no official “Downloads” (“Downloads”) folder on the iPhone.

Steps

See capacity

View downloaded playlists

View downloaded apps

Advice

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