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.

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

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

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.

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

Extremely useful reminder. Thank you!

After emptying all caches, I checked to be on the safe side to see whether they had all been deleted. And lo and behold! All caches are back! Why doesn’t emptying work?

@Pleukaumu31

What device/operating system?

Logically the caches are created again, but after cleaning do they still take up exactly the same amount of storage space as before?

Samsung A6.

Yes, after cleaning, exactly the same amount is occupied again.

Instead of the cache cleaner in the settings menu, I would recommend @Pleukaumu31 SD-Maid. This deletes very reliably and cleanly. At least for me the caches are many times smaller…