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Declutter your smartphone and create more storage

Even with a large phone memory, it still fills up eventually. Clear out your smartphone memory from time to time to create more space.

The low memory message sends most of us into panic. And if you can’t take a photo at the perfect moment, it’s all the more annoying. So check beforehand how much space you have left – and take action if you need to.

1. Check your storage space

  • For iPhones: under Settings > General > iPhone Storage
  • For Android devices: under Settings > Storage > Internal storage

This lets you see the apps that use most memory. If there are apps you never use, you can delete or deactivate them.

2. Get organised

A messy smartphone might be less noticeable than a chaotic living room, but a digital clean-up is still essential. Regularly upload your photos and videos to your computer, an external memory or to a cloud such as myCloud, Apple Photos or Google Photos. As well as saving valuable storage space, it also gives you a better overview.

You can also tidy up streaming apps by removing podcasts you have heard or by unfollowing artists or playlists you no longer use. There is also an option to archive old chats on messenger services.

3. Delete background data

The cache contains stored data from websites, videos or apps. It has some benefits: for applications you use frequently, it saves your smartphone downloading existing data a second time and saves mobile data on the move. However, you should still empty the cache from time to time to remove unnecessary data and save a lot of space.

  • For iPhones: clear the history and website data in the app settings for your browser.
  • For Android devices: select an app in the Settings under Apps, click on Storage and clear the cache. Repeat this process for each app. If you find this too laborious, you can use a cache cleaner app that cleans all apps at once.

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7 days later

Merci!

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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.

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Samsung Galaxy S20 5G FE, Android 12

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@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.

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for photos, videos, etc. no problem, just put them on SD card.

The problem is applications that cannot be installed on SD card…. 😛

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@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…

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@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.

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