Merci!

It’s very helpful for me because I don’t know all of the immense areas of application.🙂 In the “worst” case, I can still ask my grandchildren😏

If you only install the few absolutely necessary apps and don’t take photos of every damn thing and don’t hoard every song that you never listen to anyway, then you’ll never reach the limits of the memory with a modern smartphone.

I don’t have the option “Internal shared storage” (Android). It also doesn’t show how much memory the apps are using…

@Bohbrus

What kind of device and what Android version are you using?

Thank you, have a nice day

Very helpful comment!

Samsung Galaxy S20 5G FE, Android 12

thank you for this advice, I was able to put my applications in order

@Bohbrus

On my Tab S6 with Android 12 it looks like this:

Settings > Battery and device maintenance > Storage > Apps

All apps and their storage requirements are listed here. With a touch on the respective app and then touch on memory, you can see how much memory the app needs and how much memory the data in the app needs. As an example for the Navi app, I see 300 MB for the app and 930 MB for the data. This shows me that it is not the app itself but the offline maps that are the big memory hogs.

Was very helpful and cleared a lot of cache

For the “clear cache” function, I empty the cache, but as soon as I reopen the application, the cache is loaded again!

@hed Thanks, I’m also familiar with this setting. But that means manually going through all the apps. Based on the title, I was actually hoping to find a simple solution…

@Bohbrus

You can sort the apps according to memory requirements, usually the first 5 or 10 apps are the memory hogs.

An even more effective solution is to do a backup from time to time and then a factory reset and then only reinstall the apps that are absolutely necessary. Afterwards you have a lot of free memory again and the performance of the device is massively higher again. I treat all of my devices (PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet) to such a “slimming diet” every 1-2 years. The effort is very high, but it’s worth it.

@hed 👍🏼

excellent information thank you

Tips like this always help to raise awareness…

It would still make sense if we were suggested an app to clear the cache. Does Swisscom have anything to offer?

@CorinaS

thank you it’s very interesting when you’re over 20 years old, thank you again and send other equally interesting opinions