How to Add a Storage Widget to Your Home Screen on iPhone

TL;DR

Swipe Clean Photos offers storage-gauge and memory-usage widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen, so you can see how full your iPhone is at a glance and tap through straight into the tool that clears it.

Steps

  1. Long-press your Home Screen (or Lock Screen) and choose to add a widget.
  2. Find Swipe Clean Photos and pick the storage gauge or memory widget.
  3. Place it where you’ll glance at it.
  4. Tap the widget anytime to jump straight into the matching tool.

Why it works this way

You only think about storage when you’re already out of it — mid-photo, mid-update. A widget flips that: the gauge sits on your Home or Lock Screen so a full phone is obvious before it blocks you, and tapping it drops you straight into the cleanup tool instead of hunting through the app.

Tips & edge cases

  • Lock Screen widget gives a glance without even unlocking.
  • Tap-through saves steps — go from “storage is full” to clearing it in one tap.
  • Pair with the System Info dashboard for memory as well as storage.

FAQ

What widgets are available? A storage gauge and a memory-usage widget, for both the Home Screen and Lock Screen.

Can I jump to cleanup from the widget? Yes. Tap through to go straight into the relevant tool.

Do widgets drain battery? They show lightweight local stats; there’s no network or upload involved.