How To Free Up Phone Memory Space On Android

Are you looking for ways to free up space on your Android device? If not, then you should!

If you are still confused and want to know, then continue reading.

Apr 07, 2021 Deleting unused apps will help increase the amount of free space your Android has, as well as free up RAM if the apps ran in the background a lot. Both free storage space and free RAM will help improve your Android's performance. Apps you've purchased or got for free can be downloaded again at any time from the Google Play Store. Google Photos lets you back up an unlimited number of photos. In other words, you can back up every single photo you take with your Android phone directly to Google Photos, and it will not count. There are 2 possible ways to clear your cached data. You could go through your phone storage and you could also go through individual apps. For the phone storage method, go to your settings, then scroll down and select storage and USB or just storage. Here select phone storage, then wait a bit for the calculations.

We all love clicking photos with the camera on our smartphones. Don’t’ we?

We experiment with the same pose in so many angles and pick the best out of them all. But it is not that easy as it sounds to be!

In that group of similar photos, after choosing the best, we are not able to delete the other ones. It is because the other photos are also good, and we love them so much that we do not delete any of the groups.

And with our next outing, we totally forget about these photos, which are similar.

You want to know why?

Because of the frequency at which we click new and more photos.

This, if it continues to happen, may adversely affect you by eating up the storage space on your Android device occupying memory of your device. A junk cleaner for Android may help you out in such drastic situations.

NOTE: Full memory means a low operating speed of a device.

Possible Reasons for Full Storage

How To Free Up Space In Phone Memory

The incident above is just one such event that may occupy the memory of your device. Occupied memory is synonymous with low storage. There are many other factors that are responsible for buzzing the ‘Low Storage’ alarm. You should check out some of them.

Lots of apps residing on a device.
A large chunk of media files such as videos, audio, photos, etc.
Accumulation of empty folders, residual files, cache, or simply junk.
Active background processes.
The space occupied by inbuilt apps.

These are some of the major reasons why a device suffers this problem of low storage. You can see if any of these is a visible reason for the low storage on your device. Cleaning the memory is the only thing that can save you from falling short on storage space or memory.

How can You Clean the Memory (Free up Space)?

A clean or unoccupied memory is the one that can support the better operability of an Android device. Just the way you need your brain to freshen up, your smartphone needs its virtual brain or the memory to clean up.

There are many methods available to clean up space (memory). On this sea of information itself, that is on the internet; you will find uncountable ways to tell you stepwise on how to free up the memory.

But trusting completely on those methods may be like playing a gamble. Therefore a junk file cleaner can be used as those methods are manual and may not be very effective.

Freeing up the memory manually may not be effective. It is because reaching to the core of the software seems absurd this way. One cannot penetrate into the software manually. Hence developers made a memory cleaner.

What is a Memory Cleaner(Junk File Cleaner)?

A junk file cleaner is a program that is developed to meet the needs of an Android smartphone. It is designed so as to incite cleaning of the assets hovering over an Android device’s storage space.

This program is generalized of cleaning the residual files, system cache, app cache, APKs, temp files, or in all junk files so that the memory is free from unnecessary clutter affecting the performance of an Android smartphone.

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What a Memory Cleaner Must Have?

The horizon does not have any boundaries and the same is the case with junk file cleaner these days. They offer limitless other features along with the basic ones. The basic set of features offered today in a memory cleaner must possess the following

A speed booster app to speed up the device.
A battery booster app to protect the battery.
A junk file cleaner to clean undesired data.
An antivirus to offer protection.
Some phone managers like file manager and application manager to organize the device.

Which is the Best Junk File Cleaner App?

After discussing almost everything about a memory cleaner, it is important to know about the best of all in this category. The best app to free up space seems to be ‘Advanced Phone Cleaner.’

This app is helping many users to strengthen up their phones from all aspects related to cleaning. Not only cleaning, but it is also offering up a lot of many important features so that users can enjoy their smartphone to the fullest. Let’s have a brief look at some of its features.

Features to Free up Space

Junk Cleaner- A junk file cleaner to clean undesired data. All of the data that is waste and is gobbling down the memory is deleted. This module is intended to trigger the deep cleaning of all the empty folders, residual files, temp files, APKs, etc.

Social Cleaner- One of the very impressive features. Generally overlooked, the downloaded media from these social platforms also play a partner residing in the device’s memory. This data is downloaded and the user forgets that this is even of their smartphone. This feature fishes out only the downloaded social media and displays it so that the user can decide what to keep and what to delete.

Duplicates Clea ner-Yet again a camouflaged junk cleaner is this Duplicates Cleaner. All your photos that look alike or are similar are scrutinized by this module. The photos are then segregated from the other ones and then displayed in groups to the user. This segment has the option of smart selection to offer. In which, the display pattern can be controlled by the user.

Some other features of Advanced Phone Cleaner are

Application Manager of this junk file cleaner can be used to easily delete the inoperable or less used apps to create space.
File Manager is used for taking easy and quick actions on all the files stored on a device.
CPU Cooler to halt overheating procedures.
Secure Browser to offer private internet browsing.

We hope now you know exactly how to free up memory on your Android device efficiently. Do follow these steps and this app to free up space on your smartphone. Download the app now!

Have you deleted apps only to find that your Android phone's memory is still full? Does it lack a micro SD card expansion slot? Maybe it's chock full of photos and videos that you just don't want to delete.

These problems are common on all smartphones. But unlike iPhones and iPads, Android devices make it easy to free up space through tools built into the OS, as well as Google's free cloud services. This guide will explain all the ways you can de-clutter your Android phone or tablet and maximize your available storage.

NOTE: The following advice assumes you're using Android 4.4 KitKat or higher. Even in that case, there may be some inconsistencies with phones using heavily manufacturer-customized operating systems, like the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Check Your Usage

First and foremost, you'll want to check out your current storage situation to see what's using the most space. Simply go into Android's Settings menu and tap Storage. That will bring up a screen that breaks your local storage down into six categories: Apps, Pictures and Videos, Audio, Downloads, Cached Data, and Misc.

Inside the Storage menu, you can click on each category to go to the appropriate app for managing that particular type of data. Check out the following sections for tips on how to tackle the worst offenders.

Pictures and Video

If you're like most people, your smartphone is your go-to camera. That means there's a good chance pictures and video are some of the biggest storage hogs on your device. But don't worry: You don't have to permanently erase those memories in order to free up space.

Google Photos

You can view photos stored locally on your device by tapping on 'Device folders' in the Google Photos app's menu.
Once you have selected the photos you want to delete from your local storage, tap on the three dots to reveal the 'Delete device copy' button.
Tapping the 'Delete device copy' button will remove the photos from your device. Just make sure they were backed up before you do so.

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You can view photos stored locally on your device by tapping on 'Device folders' in the Google Photos app's menu.
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Once you have selected the photos you want to delete from your local storage, tap on the three dots to reveal the 'Delete device copy' button.
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Tapping the 'Delete device copy' button will remove the photos from your device. Just make sure they were backed up before you do so.

Of course, you'll still need to delete the copies in your local storage. Luckily, that's something Google Photos makes dead simple. Here's how:

Tap the Menu button (in the upper left corner of the screen) and select Device folders.
On next screen, select everything you want to delete.
Tap on the three-dot symbol in the upper right corner to access the Delete device copy button.

The procedure is similar for other media, like movies and books. You can easily delete local copies while still making them available for streaming. Google Play Books and Movies both have Manage downloads pages in their settings menu, where you can delete local copies. If you prefer the Amazon Kindle app, you can do the same there.

Music and Audio

If you're really into music, you're probably using either Spotify or Google Play Music. Both of these services prioritize streaming, but also allow you to download local copies for offline listening. That's a great feature to have, but you can easily forget what you've downloaded and fill up your storage with music you haven't spun in months.

Luckily, it's easy to delete these downloaded copies. Like Play Books and Play Movies, Google Play Music also has a Manage downloads screen in its settings. For its part, Spotify simply has a Make available offline toggle. If you don't want to keep the music around anymore, just flick it to the off position on a case-by-case basis.

For other audio files on your device (like ringtones and voice recordings), tapping on the Audio category under Storage in Settings app will bring up a simple file manager, allowing you to easily get rid of any files you no longer need.

Google Play Music

If you scroll down in the Google Play Music app's settings, you will find the 'Manage downloads' button.
On the 'Manage downloads' screen, tapping on the orange checkmark circle next to a song will bring up a prompt to delete the downloaded copy.
On the 'Manage downloads' screen, tapping on the orange checkmark circle next to a song will bring up a prompt to delete the downloaded copy.

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If you scroll down in the Google Play Music app's settings, you will find the 'Manage downloads' button.
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On the 'Manage downloads' screen, tapping on the orange checkmark circle next to a song will bring up a prompt to delete the downloaded copy.
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On the 'Manage downloads' screen, tapping on the orange checkmark circle next to a song will bring up a prompt to delete the downloaded copy.

Apps, Cached Data, and Downloads

Before we go into dealing with apps themselves, we recommend you first see how much room you can make by deleting your cached data and downloads. This is the crud that builds up in your phone's memory during day-to-day use, and cleaning it out once in a while is simply a good policy.

If you tap on Cached data in the Storage settings menu, a prompt will appear asking you if you'd like to delete cached data for all apps on your Android device. If you've never done this before, it could end up freeing up a substantial amount of space. (On one well-used phone we managed to clear 2.78 GB.) The Downloads category works much like the Audio category described above, with a file manager where you can manually select what to dispose of.

Android Settings App

Tapping on 'Cached data' in the Storage menu will bring up this prompt to delete all cached data on your device.
If you tap on Apps in the Storage menu, you will be taken to this list of installed apps.
Tapping on an app will bring you to this screen, allowing you clear the app's cache and data, or uninstall it.

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Tapping on 'Cached data' in the Storage menu will bring up this prompt to delete all cached data on your device.
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If you tap on Apps in the Storage menu, you will be taken to this list of installed apps.
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Tapping on an app will bring you to this screen, allowing you clear the app's cache and data, or uninstall it.

Finally, there are the apps themselves. If you've moved all your media to the cloud, cleared your caches, and deleted extraneous downloads, but still need more space, it's time to start purging apps. Tapping on Apps in the Storage menu will bring up a list of all the apps on your device, sorted by how much storage space they use.

From there, you can tap on individual apps to do a few different things. First, you can (and should) Clear Cache, assuming you didn't already clear cached data for all apps. Then, if necessary, Clear Data. Keep in mind that this will get rid of login info, stored preferences, and other assets—in essence, it's like returning an app to its newly downloaded state. And if you want to get rid of the app entirely, you can simply tap Uninstall and follow the prompts.

Using these tips, you should be able to dramatically increase the amount of free space on your Android phone or tablet. But if you're in the market for a new phone, there are things you can do to avoid having to employ any of these methods.

If you're not comfortable surrendering your data to cloud services, we recommend that you look into getting an Android device with expandable storage. Google's focus on the cloud means fewer Android phones come with MicroSD card slots, but those that do can typically accept cards as large as 128 GB, giving you plenty of room to play with. It's an added expense, to be sure, but you'll be grateful for the room when you really have to get that shot.