Having a cell phone with a memory card is very helpful in freeing up space in your mobile storage. Although few apps take advantage of SD memory and still exclusively use internal storage, Telegram includes the possibility of using MicroSD since its last update.
This option is disabled at the factory, so if you want Telegram to use the memory card to save your chats cache, you need to enable it in the settings. So, it doesn’t matter how much storage space Telegram uses: it will not fill the internal memory of the mobile
Make Telegram use the mobile’s microSD
Telegram is probably the messaging app with the most options. This also applies to storage options, in which you can fine-tune how much data do you want it to store locally on the mobile.
To this day, Telegram continues to store all data, free and unlimited, on its own servers, but uploads to mobile items such as photos, videos or stickers that appear in a chat, as a cache, in order to that they are not stored. to re-download each time. In Telegram settings you can configure the cache retention time, and now you can also configure where the cache is kept
Changing the setting is very easy. First, you need to open the telegram settings and enter Data and storage. Then touch Storage path and choose MicroSD memory. Note that sometimes the MicroSD card does not appear with its name, but with the name of the partition, which can be somewhat cryptic. If this is your first time adjusting this, just choose the option that is not already selected.
From this moment Telegram will start saving the cache in the MicroSD memory instead of in the internal memory of the mobile. If you use Telegram frequently and have frequent groups where many photos or videos are shared, this setting may free up several megabytes of storage space on your mobile, although in turn it will take up space in your microSD memory.
