Running out of space or planning to clear the year-old junk on your phone? Here is how to create more space on your Android for all those important videos and images.
In this article, we share some quick and easy ways to reclaim your storage space on an Android. That will not only allow you to free up space but also speed up your phone.
How to Create more space on Your Android
If you have a phone with less than 128 GB of storage, you’ll run out at some point—and you’ll really want to know how to free up space on your Android.
But don’t worry, getting more storage is a pretty straightforward process. All you need to do is spend some time and clear some clutter to get regain that space quickly.
Lookup the data you want to delete
Before you start deleting files, you should figure out what’s taking up so much space, and if you need it or not. The Files app offers regular prompts to let you know if you haven’t used an app in a while, and if you don’t need that app, it’s pretty easy to decide that you can get rid of it.
- Once you open Google Files for the first time, you’ll be asked for permission. Tap Allow.
- You’ll see a screen called All Files Access, where you’ll have the ability to permit or deny access to files on your phone. Bear in mind that while some might seem familiar, some might belong to apps you deleted a while back.
- To clean files (delete ’em!), go to Files by Google > Scroll down to Clean > Tap Clean.
With high-quality cameras on phones, captured media now tends to take up more space. So you can be taking up the space of your phone pretty quickly if you tend to capture high-quality videos.
Check What’s taking up the most space
- Go to Settings > Battery & Device Care > Storage. That will give you a visual list of your internal storage, including how much space your images, videos, audio files, documents installation files, and apps are using.
- Tap on Storage, it will show you how much you have already used and what you’ve used it for. This list will include Images, Videos, Audio files, Documents, Installation files (that will probably be 0%), and a few others. You can tap on each of these to explore the actual files (photos, videos, downloads, and more) to see what you want to keep or delete.
- Another nice option in the Device Care screen is the ability to turn on Auto Optimization. This will automatically keep your phone in the best condition possible by closing background apps and cleaning memory.
Using the Google Photos App
One easy place to start is with the Google Photos app. To keep your phone from being overloaded, once you back up your photos or videos to Google Photos, you can delete them from your phone.
Once you have everything backed up to Google Photos, you can clear out any extra images or copies you have. That works with almost all Android phones, and the app sends in the auto prompt.