After a period of use, download and install applications, music, videos, … your Android device’s memory will be “full” and not enough storage space. With high-end devices with large internal memory you may not worry much, but cheap devices with only a few gigabytes of internal memory, that is really the problem. So how to free up storage space on Android devices, please refer to the following article of Network Administrator.
On modern versions of Android, there is a built-in Storage panel that shows exactly how much memory you have used on your device.
To open Storage, open the Settings app, then on the Settings window find and click Storage . Here you can see how much memory the applications on your Android device use, and other data such as images, videos, audio files, cache data, downloaded files, etc. ..
Tap any option to see exactly how much memory apps and files have used and delete those apps. For example, when you click Apps, you will see a list of applications that are using the most memory space and you can delete these applications.
Click Downloads to see a list of downloaded files, click Cache Data to clear the data of installed applications on the device.
Although the built-in Storage tool on Android devices also supports viewing how much memory applications and data take up, the limitation of Storage is that it cannot display each folder and files exactly. How much space do personal files take up? To see exactly how much space individual folders and files take up, you will have to rely on the support of a 3rd application, DiskUsage .
Just go to Google Play, then find and download the app to your device to install, open the app and scan the system files on the device.
Download DiskUsage to your computer and install it here.
Note:
Only delete data not belonging to the application in use to avoid data loss.
In addition, you should also back up your online data in case something bad happens and you can reload the data if needed.
Readers can refer to more steps to back up and store data on your Android device safely here.
On Android devices there is a microSD card slot, so you should buy an SD memory card and insert the SD memory card into your device to increase the storage space, and you can store music files, videos, photos, files and even apps. Some apps allow you to move the storage location to the SD card instead of the device memory.
You can format the SD card as removable or internal storage (with Android 6.0 Marshmallow), then connect your phone to your computer to move music and other files to the SD card.
Depending on the device and Android version you use, you may be able to move the apps installed on your device to the SD card to free up memory space.
For Android Marshmallow users can format the SD card as internal storage – view the SD card as the device’s internal storage. And you won’t be able to tell the difference between real internal storage and SD card usage.
In addition, readers can refer to the step-by-step instructions for moving apps to the SD card on Android devices here.
The pictures on your Android device consume a lot of storage space . Therefore, you’d better store all these images on a cloud service like Google Photos, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Flickr….
Google Photos is integrated into the Photos (images) app on Android devices and provides users with unlimited storage space. You can access Google Photos from the Photos app or go to photos.google.com on a computer.
Also, if you don’t like using Google Photos, you can use other apps like Dropbox .
Good luck!