Easy Way to Delete Corrupted and Damaged Files on iPhone Permanently

If a file is corrupted or damaged, it cannot work properly. Your iPhone will stop working or responding due to those corrupted files. But don't worry about that. During this time, you can delete corrupted files manually to maintain iPhone performance. In many people's eyes, it seems to be an easy task. But there are still many corrupted files that can't be deleted from iPhone questions in Apple Community, Reddit, Quora, and many other forums. If you have the same question, you can continue reading and get the best way to delete corrupted media files on your iPhone successfully here.

Delete Corrupted Media Files

Part 1: Why Files Get Corrupted on iPhone

Before deleting corrupted, damaged, or crashed files, you had better know the reason. What leads to corrupted media files on iPhone? Here are common causes of iPhone media files corrupted. Just read and check if you encounter the same situation. Or you can share your iPhone file corruption experience in the comments below.

Part 2: How to Delete Corrupted Files on iPhone

Before deleting, you need to find corrupted files on your iPhone. Later, you can clean the corrupted files that are impossible to delete with Aiseesoft iPhone Cleaner. Different from traditional iPhone file deleting issues, the program can detect, delete and organize useless files on iPhone smartly. You can find and delete invisible corrupted files from iPhone 15/14/13/12/11/XS/XR and earlier completely. Moreover, you can delete caches, crash logs, junk files, temp files, and other unwanted files to make your iPhone run fast.

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Step 1:
Free download, install and launch Aiseesoft iPhone Cleaner software. Use a lightning USB cable to connect iPhone to your computer. Tap Trust on iPhone to enable USB debugging.
Connect iPhone
Step 2:
Click Quick Scan to do a full analysis. Click Erase next to Erase Junk Files. Enable checkmark next to Image Cache, iTunes Cache, Invalid Files, Downloaded Temporary Files, and Crash Log Files based on your need.
Quick Scan
Step 3:
Preview and check which file you want to delete from your iPhone. Click Erase on the lower right corner. Later, you can delete corrupted files and folders from iPhone permanently.
Click Erase
Step 4:
To delete all corrupted files on iPhone thoroughly, choose Erase All Data on the left panel. Set the iOS data erasing level as Low, Middle, or High in the Security Level. Later, choose Start to move on.
Erase Level
Step 5:
Enter 0000 in the required blank. Click Erase to erase iPhone data and get rid of all corrupted files.
Erase

Part 3: FAQs of Deleting iPhone Corrupted Files

Can you recover corrupted files on iPhone?

It depends. If you have backed up iPhone data before, you can restore the latest iPhone backup. The corrupted iPhone files will be replaced by the original files. Or you can use third-party iPhone data recovery software to have a try.

Is a corrupted file a virus?

No. File corruption can happen in many situations. Your iPhone may crash when a file is corrupted. But corrupted files are not dangerous. You can use iPhone antivirus apps to check if your iPhone gets viruses.

How to tell if a file is corrupted?

You can check the file size. Check the file property to see if the file size is smaller than similar ones. If Yes, then this iPhone file may be corrupted.

How to fix a corrupted iPhone backup?

When you are notified with "iTunes could not back up the iPhone ** because the backup was corrupt or not compatible …", you can delete the old iTunes backup and have another try. Or you can make a new iTunes backup folder to fix the iPhone backup corrupt.

That's all to delete corrupted files on iPhone and iPad. You can use Aiseesoft iPhone Cleaner to find and delete any file. Even though some iPhone files are not visible, you can run the program to make it visible again. Therefore, you can delete corrupted videos, photos, music files, app files, caches, and many other iPhone files permanently.

The selectable iPhone data erasing levels can meet all your demand. No matter you want to delete several corrupted files, or you want to delete all corrupted files and speed up your iPhone, you can get a satisfying result. Do you have any other questions about iPhone corrupted files? If Yes, you can leave messages below or feel free to contact us. We are glad to help you whenever you need.

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