RydopHow to find large videos on iPhone
Photos won’t sort videos by size, but it will tell you how big each one is. In Photos, tap Collections › Media Types › Videos, open a video and tap the Info button (ⓘ). The file size is under the name of the iPhone that recorded it. The length on each thumbnail tells you where to start. Apple puts a minute of 1080p video at 70 to 105 MB, and 4K takes much more.
See the size of a video
- Open Photos, tap Collections, scroll to Media Types and tap Videos.
- Tap a video to open it.
- Tap the Info button (ⓘ) at the bottom, or swipe up on the video.
The size is under the name of the iPhone that recorded the video, next to the resolution and frame rate. Apple describes this in Compress a video on iPhone.
Find the big ones without opening every video
You’ll see the length in the corner of each thumbnail in Videos. Size depends on length and quality, so start with the longest. A ten-minute 4K clip from a school play easily takes a few gigabytes, while a 20-second clip of the dog is a few dozen megabytes.
To see what your own settings cost, open Settings › Camera › Record Video. It shows roughly how much a minute takes at each quality. Slow-motion and 60 fps videos also take more per minute than ordinary ones. Screen recordings have a collection of their own under Media Types › Screen Recordings, and they’re often longer than you remember.
Videos outside Photos
Videos you’ve saved in the Files app don’t show up in Photos. In Files, tap Browse or Recents and switch to list view: the size is next to each file name, and you can sort the list by size. Apple also covers this in the same guide.
Free the space
Delete the videos you won’t watch again. They wait 30 days in Recently Deleted (Collections › Utilities) and still take up space until you empty it. To keep the best part of a long video, trim it and save it as a new clip, then delete the original. The steps are in how to clean up photos on iPhone.
Want to keep the whole video, just smaller? Export it from iMovie at 720p, which Apple puts at 19 to 27 MB a minute. The steps are in Apple’s guide. With iCloud Photos, you can also turn on Optimize iPhone Storage: the full videos stay in iCloud and the iPhone keeps smaller versions (Use iCloud Photos).
Rydop sorts them by size
Rydop lists every video of 50 MB or more, largest first, with the size next to each one. Tap one to watch it, tick the ones you don’t need and delete them. iOS asks you to confirm, and they go to Recently Deleted like any other photo.
Rydop costs $1.99 once, with no ads and no subscription. There’s no account and nothing is uploaded. Its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”. If the whole iPhone is full, not just Photos, see how to free up space on iPhone.