Every smartphone user, sooner or later, faces the terrible problem of cleaning or freeing space from the internal memory of his phone . Messy storage leads to all kinds of slowdowns, long downloads, and other annoyances in daily use of the device. Fortunately, in recent years, there have been a few effective ways to free up space in the internal memory of our phone so that we do not have to put ourselves to the task of investing our precious time in a task that just thinking about it makes us lazy. Here are a few tricks to free up space:
1. Move as many applications as you can to the MicroSD card
Installed apps and games take up most of the internal memory (sure to be many gigabytes if you check it out). If your smartphone supports working with MicroSD cards, you have a good opportunity to increase the storage space for files, by moving some of the installations to an additional MicroSD memory, which will free up space on the internal memory.
2. Clear all cached app data
Each individual application installed on our terminal has its own “bag” of “cached” data; which can range from a few kilobytes to hundreds of megabytes, or even more. They are useless – they are junk files and can be safely deleted to free up storage space. How to remove them? Select the application → Storage → Clear cache.
3. Embrace the cloud
If you’re not using it already, it’s a good time to think about it. The cloud ( cloud computing ) is a box with a practically infinite capacity in which all the information you want fits. If you are afraid of deleting some files, because you don’t know if you will need them later, the cloud is the best option. iCloud, Dropbox … the options are many.
4. Delete old text messages
Save the messages from the last conversation with your ex? Are you holding on to a message from a number that you don’t recognize because you think you will eventually remember who it is? Talks saved out of nostalgia? It’s time to apply some common closet cleaning principles and get rid of all those text messages that you haven’t read in … say 30 days. They are not only sucking up valuable storage space, but also your energy and removing them is a breeze. Go to Settings → Messages → Message history → Choose how long messages should be kept. (You can also directly delete older messages).
5. Save only the songs you listen to the most
While it is tempting to have all the songs in your library available at your fingertips, they will fill the entire space on your phone. You can also choose to use one of the music streaming services on the market such as Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, Deezer or Sound Cloud.
6. Use a program that does the work for you
When you have a big cleaning job ahead of you, apps like iMobie’s PhotoClean are ideal for removing junk files from iOS or Files Go from Google for Android. Although the ideal is to download few applications and files, as we will undoubtedly do, if a software can help us in this task, all the better. Yes indeed. If you need an extreme tool, the last step is to restore the factory mobile. Format the phone and start from 0. Of course, first save all your essential data such as contacts, photos and videos before starting the process.
