How to Make Amazon Prime Downloads Smaller on the iPhone

If you like to save videos from Amazon Prime to your iPhone, then you may have discovered that they use a lot of space.

Luckily you can change a setting in the app to make these videos smaller and free up some storage space for other things like pictures and more apps.

How to Download Smaller Amazon Videos on an iPhone

  1. Open the Prime Video app.
  2. Choose the My Stuff tab.
  3. Tap the gear icon.
  4. Select Streaming & Downloading.
  5. Choose Download quality.
  6. Touch the preferred option.

Our guide continues below with additional information on reducing the size of Prime Video downloads on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps.

Related Topic: If there is an Amazon Prime movie that you would like ot download and watch, then our how do I know if I have Amazon Prime article can show you how to find out if you have an active membership.

I have been fighting with the available storage space on my iPhone for years.

No matter how large of a hard drive I get, I always seem to be running out of storage.

There are steps to take to manage this problem, such as deleting old apps and pictures, but you can also be somewhat proactive about it by minimizing the size of files when you first download them.

One app that gives you this option is the Prime Video streaming app from Amazon.

You are able to download movies and TV shows from this app so that you can watch them when you won’t have an Internet connection, such as on a plane.

But you are also able to customize the quality of these downloaded files so that they take up less space on your device.

You can change the streaming quality settings in the app, too. You can read our how do I change my Amazon Prime Video settings article for more information.

How to Reduce Download Quality in the Prime Video App on an iPhone (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11.3.

I am using 5.42.1157.1 version of the app, which was the most current version available when this article was written.

This guide is going to change a setting in the Prime Video app from Amazon which will reduce the quality of your downloaded video in an effort to reduce file size.

I am going to select the lowest quality video in the steps below, which means that 1 hour of video will use approximately 300 MB of space. You can choose from two other higher download qualities, but each of those will use more storage space.

Step 1: Open the Prime Video app.

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Step 2: Choose the Settings tab at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

In newer versions of the Prime Video app you need to select My Stuff, then tap the Settings icon at the top-right of that menu.

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Step 3: Select the Streaming & Downloading option.

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Step 4: Touch the Download Quality button.

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Step 5: Tap the option that corresponds to the quality of video that you want to download.

I am selecting the Good option to minimize the amount of storage space that my downloads use.

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Note that this does not affect the streaming quality. This only affects the files that you download to your device.

Are you adjusting your download quality because you are concerned about your available storage space? Find out some tips for increasing your amount of available storage by deleting old apps and files that are needlessly using space on your iPhone.

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