You may have had this experience at one time or another. You went to download an app or record a video with your mobile phone and you received a warning message warning you that there is no space available for phone memory or that it is about to end.
Though increasingly common, far from the first Android phones (on iOS it is also possible), it's still possible. An indication of the continued use of the phone and all the junk files and unnecessary accumulation files. It is therefore helpful that, from time to time, let's free up space on mobile, which can follow some easily accessible steps.
Removing applications you don't use
We start with the obvious step that we have no alternative to deleting those programs that we installed at some point and that we no longer need them or have stopped using them. They have a significant space in our phone memory and we can complete them in the "Settings" menu, and in the "Applications" section click the "Uninstall" section.
Another option is to do it from Google Play, whose step should be to open the Google Play app, and inside click on the "Options" menu, which appears with the icon for the three horizontal bars in the upper left corner.
We're looking for an option "My apps" and games, we pressed it and it will take us to the screen to manage apps purchased, installed, or those you installed somewhere.
Click on the tab "Installed" to know which apps are currently available on mobile. We'll see more of the window called "Storage" which shows the percentage of storage occupied by apps, and the amount in GB of space you have left.
When we click on this window we will see a menu in it free space for mobile selecting multiple programs to uninstall.
Completes data and cache
If you do not want to remove it, the famous "if possible", you can always choose two centralized solutions, also from the "Applications" menu. By installing the application you want we can master it clear data or clear cache you are busy.
With the first choice leaving the app as if we had just installed it, removes data, accounts, games, etc., while clearing the cache, what we will do to achieve the information the system has been keeping since it was first used to speed up and improve its performance.
In this case, it should be noted that if it is a frequently used app, this cache will quickly fill up again. What is also true is that between both options we can save enough megabytes.
See the downloads folder
The same is true of PCs, for Android we find time to go a "Downloads" folder that can have a large size. If we download content regularly and especially when it is multimedia files, this folder may have a large size.
So it's not bad to go to a folder using a file explorer right from your phone (each product can get a different name). It's about looking for a "Download" or "Downloads" folder and deleting all the files you download and compile in this folder that you no longer need.
WhatsApp is really fun
And related to these, there are also files sent and received by WhatsApp. To make it clear that it's always easy to back up, get rid of unwanted WhatsApp files like going to a document inspector and looking for a "WhatsApp" folder.
Inside it we'll see three folders and look at the phone "Medium", which we have to press to access multiple folders the files we sent and received. We can either delete all the files in a large way from the folder or select the ones we no longer care about.
As a warning, some phones have a trash option to the file explorer, so the content can be stored there by removing it and leaving no space for it to take out the trash.
Uses Google Files
A good option that helps the space to do well Use third-party apps and one of the most interesting is Google Files. A tool that we can download for free from the Google Play store.
Google Files: Free up space on your phone
Among the "Files" options we find as the app itself advises that we have a series of junk files
Other options they offer to remove a local copy of the photos already backed up to Google Photos, which can say a few megabytes, delete duplicate files, the files they manage to compare file size and date, determine whether two files are the same, even if they have different file names. file.
As a complement, it provides details of delete files from WhatsApp, Telegraph and other similar applications or search for the largest files, in the phone memory, to finish them with a stroke of a pen.
Move apps to the memory card
Another way to get a few megabytes is bypass move applications from the internal cellular memory to the MicroSD card, is a valid alternative for those who have a large amount of microSD on their cell phone.
The steps are also simple; we must go to the menu of "Settings" access "Applications" and within them select the one we want to move to the MicroSD mobile card, click on it to go to its file.
Click on the Memory section, you see the new screen option Memory is used, which reports on the storage where the application is installed.
Unless not all apps allow you (other apps and games with the option to move to SD are blocked), only we have to click on "Change", to switch from internal storage to SD or vice versa.
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