Save storage space on your iPhone or iPad by compressing your videos and reducing their size without reducing their quality.
Use Compress Videos to shrink the file size of videos and regain storage space on your device. When applied to all your videos, Compress Videos can help you store up to 10 times more videos on your iPhone or iPad.
6 reasons to use Compress Videos
- Save space on your iPhone or iPad by reducing videos file size
- Optimized for best video quality possible
- Super easy to use
- Shrink videos to share them faster with friends and family
- Quickly and easily compress videos before posting them to social media
- This app respects your privacy and processes your videos directly on your device
Frequently Asked Questions
I bought the Pro version but I still see ads, or all features aren't unlocked. What can I do?Open the app and go to the app’s settings. Tap on the Compress Videos Pro tab at the top. Tap on the Restore Purchase link.
Assuming you did purchase the Pro version to begin with, this will unlock all Pro features.
How do I find my videos once they have been compressed?
Compressed videos are automatically saved to the Photos app of your device in two different places.
You can find them in the Recents album as well as in an album called Compressed Videos. Open the Photos app on your device and look for that album.
To find the Compressed Videos album, open the Photos app, tap on the Albums tab at the bottom, then tap on See All in the upper right. This will display all your albums and the Compress Videos album should be in there.
If you can’t find this album in the Photos app, it means you didn’t give the app full access to your photo library. Without full access, the app cannot create the Compressed Videos album. To fix this, open the Settings application (the grey icon on your Home Screen), scroll down to the Compress section, tap on the Photos tab, and select All Photos.
I see a blank screen when trying to select videos. What can I do?
This happens because you didn’t grant the app access to your photo library. In order to fix this, simply open the Settings app, scroll down and tap on the Compress cell, tap on Photos, and finally, make sure to select All Photos.
This will allow the app to view your videos but also save processed videos to your library.
I can't select new videos to compress.
This is because you didn’t grant the app full access to your Photos library. To fix this, open the Settings app, scroll down to the Compress section, and tap on Photos. Then make sure All Photos is selected.
How do I delete videos from the app after compressing them?
Videos can be deleted from the Photos app. If you delete them from the Photos app, they will be deleted from the Compress Videos app as well.
But really, the fact that you are wondering how to delete videos from the app suggests that you didn’t grant the app access to all your videos to begin with. To fix this, open the Settings app, scroll down to the Compress section, and tap on Photos. Then make sure All Photos is selected.
The app will not be useful if you don’t grant it access to all your videos.
There is a loading indicator spinning for a while when I select a video. Is that a bug?
This is not a bug. But if you use iCloud Photo Library, the video you are trying to compress might not actually be entirely on your iPhone, but rather just an optimized version of it. When you select it with the Compress Videos app, the app will actually first download it from iCloud to your library in order to process it.
A way to avoid this is simply to open the Photos app on your iPhone, look for the video you want to compress, and select it. It will be automatically downloaded from iCloud. From there, you can open the Compress Videos app and download it without having to wait for the loading indicator to spin.
Is there a limit to how many videos can be compressed at once?
There is no limit, but for performance reasons, we don’t recommend processing more than 10 videos at a time, especially if they are long videos.
My iPhone crashes when I use the app. What can I do?
This is a clear sign that your iPhone is under heavy load. To avoid this, make sure to compress less videos at a time.
The app tells me it can't compress the video more than the original file. What can I do?
First thing to do if the app tells you it can’t compress the video is to adjust frame rate and video size compression settings further down. For example, cut down frame rate to 24 and video dimensions to 60%.
If you adjusted the compression settings down, and the app is still telling you it can’t compress the video further, then there is nothing else you can do. It doesn’t mean the app is not working. It just means there is nothing the app can do for that specific video. This is usually the case for videos downloaded from social media (ie. from Instagram, WhatsApp, etc) where videos are already really compressed.
If you believe the app is not working as it should, a good way to test this is to record a new video using your iPhone Camera app, then open this video in the Compress Videos app. Reduce frame rate and dimensions and compress the video. You should see significant savings. This is the proof the app works.
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