Since the beginnings of Android and up to the present time, storage problems have been present, little by little the methods to free up space on Android have been changing until reaching the current point. Currently we have several options so that the space of our mobile is not full and we are going to explain them step by step so that you can take advantage of it.
This is one of the most repeated problems on our mobile phone and that can cause the most inconvenience when using applications, downloading new apps or even taking photos. In order to free up space on Android, we are going to find some added options in each of the personalization layers, but all the ones we show you can use on your smartphone.
Delete the apps you don’t need
Little by little with the daily use of our mobile we can accumulate countless applications that we do not need, to avoid it it is recommended from time to time to take a look at the ones that we have installed and uninstall them. We can do this from the Settings> Applications section and selecting the one we want to remove and then uninstall.
In case we really want to know which ones we do not use, we can turn to the Android Google Play application store to offer us their help.
- First we enter Google Play
- We touch on the drop-down menu and then choose “My applications and games”.
- Now we touch in the “Installed” section
- And we select storage.
We will be shown the information on the space that each of the applications occupies as well as the last time we have used it to quickly detect which are the least needed.
Get extra storage by clearing the cache
In case we do not want to delete some applications but we have verified that their space is high, all we have to do is clear the cache. This will give us a minimal storage plus but it can be highlighted if we gradually add this space to all the applications we have.
To carry it out what we have to do is access Settings> Applications> “Select one”> Storage. In the section that we are, we will erase the cache and storage memory, getting the application back to the original state, something very useful in social networks that gradually accumulate thumbnail images on our mobile phones.
Save photos and videos in the cloud
It is increasingly common to resort to the cloud to have documents always available, but above all it was a highly recommended resource to free up the space on Android for photos. These files are getting bigger and bigger and to have them always available without filling our mobile storage, we have Google Photos at our fingertips.
Just by downloading and installing the Google Photos application we will be able to create an unlimited backup of our photos and videos in compressed format, the originals we can save on a hard drive and still have it always at hand. In Google Photos we also find an option that deletes all the files of which we already have a completed backup.
To make use of the function to free up space on your mobile as these files we go to Google Photos, tap on the drop-down menu and then choose to free up space. A tab will open with information about what we can automatically release and remove.
Move files or photos to Micro SD card
Another method with which we will be able to free up space on Android is using external memory cards. Just by accessing the file explorer of our mobile we will be able to select photos, videos or heavy files and choose the option to move them to the memory card. With this we get that our mobile is freed from those files that we do not usually use.
Transfer applications to memory card
Another of the resources that we have available is that of bringing some apps to the memory card. This is not available in all the Android customization layers but in which it is only we have to go to Settings> Applications> Select one of them and then tap on the option to move to the Micro SD card.
Some apps like those of Google services cannot be moved because they are essential for its operation. It is a little recommended option if we use the app that we are going to use often or if our card does not have a high writing speed because it could slow down the mobile.
Free up storage on your mobile
With Android 10 one of the options already present in most of the customization layers reached all users, which allows us to delete applications and other unnecessary files . As we have mentioned each layer does it in its own way and therefore it is likely that we will have a different look and options that we will complete later with an added function.
Using it is simple, we go to Settings> Storage and we will quickly see the button to free up space. Then it will direct us to the storage administrator who will show us applications that we do not use and take up a lot of space.
The Files app does everything for us
Beyond the applications, Google is aware of the needs to recover space on Android mobiles and for this reason it offers us the Files application from Google for free. Once installed, it will analyze our smartphone for content that we do not need or that are old.
Among the suggestions that it will show us we find the classic junk files that only take up space, also space dedicated to old screenshots or WhatsApp photos and multimedia files, among other applications that most of us do not need and only occupy storage. We can manually choose what we want to eliminate or not to use some of its suggestions.