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If you manage your iPhone using iTunes on your computer and your music library is set to sync to your device in its entirety, do you really want all that content on there? If not, go to the Music tab in iTunes and under Sync Music untick ‘Entire music library’. Instead, tick ‘Selected playlists, artists, albums…’

If space is a problem, you probably don’t want to enable ‘Automatically fill free space with songs’. Now turn to the other media tabs, and tweak the settings so you’re adding only what you want on your device. Under Movies and TV Shows, you can specify that once you’ve watched something, it will be deleted.

Switch back to the Apps tab and click the Sort by… button above the list of apps. Set this to Sort by Size to view the largest apps first. Uninstalling an app is as simple as clicking the Remove button next to its name. Do this and the button changes to Will Remove. Repeat for other unwanted apps before clicking Apply.

To fit more content on your iPhone, you can choose to sync audio tracks at lower quality. On your iPhone’s Summary screen in iTunes, under Options, tick ‘Convert higher bit rate songs to…’ and select an option in the menu. A lower bit rate means less space taken up; the sound quality should still be acceptable.

As you make changes to what’s synced to your iPhone, you’ll see the coloured capacity bar at the foot of the iTunes window update in real time to show you how much space you’ve still got free, or whether you’ve overshot. When you’re happy, click Apply to apply all the changes you’ve made to your device.