How to View Downloads on iPhone: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

2025 Author: Jason Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:04

This article teaches you how to display iPhone storage usage as well as music and apps downloaded on the device.

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Part 1 of 3: Displaying Storage Usage

Step 1. Open iPhone Settings

This icon is a gray gear on the home screen.

Step 2. Tap General

It's at the top of the Settings page.

Step 3. Tap on Storage & iCloud Usage

You'll find this option near the bottom of the screen when you open General.

Step 4. Tap on Manage Storage under “Storage“

Here are the options Manage Storage first on the page.

The bottom of the information (information) relates to iCloud. Downloads from iCloud are not stored directly on the iPhone

Step 5. Scroll through the storage information

Here, you'll see every app that's on your phone. To the right of each app, you'll see the amount of data it consumes (eg 1 GB or 500 MB).

Since there is no "Downloads" folder on the iPhone, all downloads (e.g. documents) are routed to the respective application (e.g. attachments in messages increase the size of the Messages app)

Part 2 of 3: Displaying Downloaded Music

Step 1. Open iPhone Music

This icon is a musical note on a white background.

Step 2. Tap Downloaded Music

It's above the "Recently Added" heading on the Library page.

Maybe you need to tap Library in the lower left corner of the screen first.

Step 3. Tap on the music option

These options include:

Playlists (playlist)
Artists (artist)
Albums (album)
Songs (song)

Step 4. Scroll down to browse the downloaded music

All the music on your iPhone's hard disk will be displayed here.

Part 3 of 3: Displaying Downloaded Apps

Step 1. Open the iPhone App Store

This icon is the letter "A" on a light blue background.

Step 2. Tap Updates

It's in the lower-right corner of the screen.

Step 3. Tap Purchased

It's at the top of the screen.

Step 4. Tap My Purchases

Step 5. Show downloaded apps

All apps with text OPEN on the right is currently open on the phone, while the app with the cloud and the arrow pointing down has already been downloaded but is no longer on the phone.

You can also tap Not on This Phone at the top of the page to display all the apps that were previously purchased or downloaded, but are no longer on your phone

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