![]() ![]() But in Oreo, you have more control over your files. Inside you’ll find a handy rundown of everything that’s taking up space on your phone, just like on Nougat. Head over to the Setting app and tap the Storage tab. If you’re lucky enough to have a phone that’s been updated to Oreo, Google has built in some great tools for tracking and managing your storage limits. On the next page, you’ll see a list of your apps sorted by how often you use them and you can easily delete the ones you don’t need anymore. From there, tap the Manage your apps tab. To find a list of everything on your phone, open the Play Store app, tap the three-line menu button in the top right corner of the screen, tap My apps & games, then tap the Installed tab. You can either browse your app drawer to find any apps you don’t need anymore, or check out your library in the Play Store. But the best judge of the apps you don’t want is you. The solution, of course, is to delete some of those apps-ideally, the ones you use the least. There are also several apps that can track your app usage and tell you which apps you’re using the least, among them: App Usage, App Tracker, and QualityTime. ![]() You can find out which apps you use the least with help from the Play Store app. The downside? My Android handsets tend to be overstuffed with too many apps, many of them used only once (or even never). I love the fact that I can download and install Android apps to my devices remotely from a desktop web browser. Tap the map and tap Delete to reclaim its storage space. The storage used by each offline map is displayed below its name. You can check how much space your offline maps have staked out by tapping the three-line menu button in the top left corner of the main Google Maps interface, then tapping Offline. Indeed, a single offline map can consume more than a gigabyte of storage depending on the size of the area. Erase offline areas in Google Mapsĭownloading a map in the latest version of the Google Maps app is a great way to navigate when your device is offline, especially now that both searching and driving directions are supported.īut those searchable offline “areas” come at a cost: storage space, and potentially lots of it. That includes Spotify, Netflix, YouTube Music or any other app you use since files may be contained within the app itself. You’ll also want to check your individual streaming apps for any downloaded files. Tap OK to pull the trigger.Īudio and video files can be huge space suckers. The Photos app will let you know how many pictures it can delete from local storage and how much space you’ll save. Once your snapshots are safely backed up, Photos can zap any locally stored images to free up more space. Open the Photos app, tap the three-line menu button in the top left corner of the screen, then tap Free up space. One of the best features of Google’s Photos app is its ability to back up your entire photo library to your online Google account. Then simply tap and hold to select the ones you don’t want and trash them. When you find it, the three-line menu icon in the top corner of the screen and sort the list of downloads by size, then take a look at what’s hogging the most storage space. You’ll find inside the Files app on most phones-though it’s called My Files on Galaxy phones-and It’s a favorite hideout for miscellaneous junk files downloaded from the web or some other app. Just like on a PC or a Mac, your Android device has a Downloads folder. Your phone saves everything you’ve ever downloaded so you might need to clear it every once in a while. Tap it and you might free up a couple of hundred megabytes.Ĭlean up your Downloads Michael Simon/IDG At the bottom of the screen, you’ll see a Clear site storage option. Then go to Site Settings and scroll down to Storage. To bring things back down to size, open Chrome on your Android phone, tap the menu in the top right corner, and open Settings. Each time you visit a site, it stores a little bit for faster loading, and they can add up over time. One of the biggest background abusers of your phone’s space is a web browser. Tame your Chrome browser Michael Simon/IDGĬhrome can use up a bit of your phone’s space. Select the app you want, then the Storage tab and, finally the Clear Cache button to take out the trash. If you dig into the Apps storage setting screen and tap on an individual app, you’ll notice that each app has its own stash of “cached” data-anywhere from a few kilobytes to hundreds of megs, or even more. These caches of data are essentially just junk files, and they can be safely deleted to free up storage space. Clear out all cached app data Michael Simon/IDGĬlearing out cache won’t save a ton of space at once but it will add up. ![]()
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