YOU know that helpless feeling of utter misery when you run out of smartphone storage space?

You can’t take a photo. You can’t download a new song. You can’t stream anything because your phone is now too slow and you can literally hear Tim Cook laughing at you through its tiny, tiny loudspeaker.

After you’re done cursing your stingy former self for not springing for the bigger iPhone in the first place (16GB is never enough, you fools!) you try to get rid of apps to free up space.

Only those useless apps you never use — Wallet, Find Friends, Tips, Stocks — are not removable. They’re just, there. Forever haunting you. Reminding you of your irrepressible pain. Wiggling mockingly, only an ‘x’ mark is not included.

Until now. Apple has just announced a multitude of new features at the WWDC Conference, ranging from a smarter Siri to bigger emojis.

What they didn’t mention was the fact that you will soon be able to delete default apps to save space.

Apple enthusiasts have noticed those annoying default apps are now available to download on the App store.

This means that, starting with iOS 10, Apple will allow iPhone and iPad users to delete any built-in apps you don’t want, and download them again later if you need them.

Users who have downloaded today’s developer beta have tweeted the change, noting that a bunch of default apps, such as Weather, Calendar, Music, Mail and Stocks, can now be deleted.

Confirmed: stock apps are removable!!! pic.twitter.com/hk7Jk98Rli — Matt Ellison (@iWindowsTech) June 13, 2016

I can confirm that stock iOS apps can now be deleted in iOS 10. It'll be out in the fall, w/ a public beta in July. pic.twitter.com/9we1dDlkk1 — Mr. Vernier (@MrVernier) June 13, 2016

There appear to be a few exceptions; Messages, Photos, Camera, Settings, Health, Safari and Clock are all still stuck, perhaps because they’re too integral to the system.

Apple has released a full help page, confirming the apps that can be removed from your home screen with the iOS 10 update.

It may surprise you to know that all of these apps use less than 150MB, but still, space is space. And it’s always nice not to have unnecessary clutter on your home screen.

MORE TIPS FOR MAKING SPACE ON YOUR IPHONE

KNOW YOUR STATS

Under Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage, you can see exactly how much space you have left, as well as a list in descending order of what apps are taking up the most space.

STOP STORING TEXTS

Texting can take up more space than you realise, especially if you send a lot of photos and videos. In addition to deleting threads, you can go to Settings > Messages > Keep Messages and select 30 days. (Your iPhone sets it to Forever by default.)

GET RID OF TEMP FILES

Purge cookies, browsing data and your seedy, seedy browser history in Safari. Go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data. This can immediately free up much-needed space.

BEWARE OF INTERNAL DOWNLOADS

If you use Spotify or Podcasts, you may find they’re the biggest culprits. If you have a lot of files downloaded to your phone offline, they can take up several gigabytes of room. Delete files you won’t play more than once, or go to the app’s settings and de-select any option to download files for use when your phone is offline. Check through your notes, ebooks and voice memos too.

STORE PHOTOS ELSEWHERE

Backing up your precious photos is always good practice, but if you keep them on Google+ or Dropbox you won’t need them on your phone. Not to mention, Google+ is free! If you’re still concerned about losing them, you can always chuck them onto an external hard drive or USB stick too.

SCRAP PHOTO STREAM

Photo Stream automatically syncs up your last 1000 photos across your devices. Which means 1000 of your photos are basically taking up twice as much room. To turn this feature off, go to Settings > Photos & Camera and toggle off My Photo Stream.

DO A REGULAR ‘APP CLEANSE’

Once a month or so, go through and delete any app you no longer use. You may have forgotten it’s even there. There’s only so long you can play Angry Birds before you get sick of it.

TURN OFF ‘SAVE ORIGINAL PHOTOS’

If you use photo-based apps like Instagram, there will be an option to save whatever photos you publish to your Camera Roll. In Instagram’s case, it’s switched on automatically, which is kind of pointless when you’ve already uploaded the picture. To turn this off, open the app, go to its Settings and turn off ‘Save Original Photos’.