If you have a Chromecast with Google TV, you’re lucky you can pack a full TV operating system into one little gadget. Although at the end of the day, it is still an Android TV launcher and as such requires the same maintenance over and over again. And what becomes of the the space occupied by the cache is the proof.
We’ll tell you in a little more detail what it means to have many files in the cache and, of course, How can it be emptied? And it is that this process of deleting files from the cache can be a very important advantage in order to have more free space and even to optimize the system.
What Google TV stores in cache and what is it used for?
Simple and clear, the files stored in the cache are used to optimize the performance of applications. This seems contradictory to what we mentioned earlier, but you’ll soon see that’s not the case. It turns out that the apps tend to fill the device memory with temporary files which should serve to speed up the loading of content.
Essentially, the fact that applications occupy the memory cache with these files is advantageous because it saves load times. However, there is a downside when these files get “out of control”. And it is that, although individually they cannot have much weight, together they can end the free space of the Chromecast.
Likewise, your Chromecast with Google TV may start storing files that aren’t really necessary for the apps to work and therefore end up slowing it down. So backfires and eventually the cache needs to be cleared.
And it is important to specify this, since Nor is it necessary to establish an exact period to empty this memory. It’s all part of the experience we get and if we notice that the performance is starting to get bad. In the same way, if we have almost no storage space, it is almost a mandatory stop to clear the application cache.
Clear cache on Chromecast with Google TV step by step
Luckily, you don’t need to enable Google TV Developer Settings or anything similar, because we will find the process in normal settings of the device, being the process that is followed in Android mobiles and in televisions with pure Android TV. Therefore, you need to follow these steps to clear the app cache:
- Open the Chromecast with Google TV settings.
- Go to the ‘Applications’ section.
- Select the app in question whose cache you want to delete.
- Click on ‘Empty cache’.
I have to say that this process will not delete any essential app data as a connection. It will simply delete the mentioned temporary files.
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