A typical problem with an Android device, especially the cheapest ones, is to run out of space on your internal disk. Even if you use a microSD, if your device has apps, photos, and videos, it may well be necessary to clean up the phone or tablet memory to keep it smooth. How to free space on Android? First and foremost: delete anything that you deem unnecessary, either manually or using some specific app.
Clean up photos, videos, and apps that we no longer use
There’s an app for that: we know this. But we often download more than we really need, or we use an app once and then forget about it. Sort your apps out and choose what you want to stay and what could go it’s the first step towards a freed device. Then you can fill it up with something else! Go to Settings > Applications, select “All” and “Sort by dimension”: so you’ll see all your apps ordered by size. Select those you want to delete and tap on “Uninstall”.
Next step: check all your photos and videos on your Android smartphone (or tablet). If you don’t want to delete anything you can trust backup services like Google Drive or Dropbox and then clean up what you don’t always need with you.
CCleaner
One of the best apps to free space on your Android device is surely CCleaner, the usual suspect, with a great Windows and Mac desktop version. With no annoying ads, CCleaner analyze your device and shows the most cumbersome files, which you should delete or move, it empties apps cache, it deletes browser history and eradicates legacy files from old apps. It offers you also an app manager: you can then select and delete more than once at once.
SD Maid
SD Maid is another great app, either the free or the paid version (2.99$ on the Play Store). SD Maid is an actual file manager: you can see and manage all files on your device, you can search for duplicates, you can see what the largest files are and where to step in. Furthermore, it allows you to securely delete files, either them being useless, temporary or legacy files, optimizing apps like Spotify and their databases, hungry for space.
Power Clean
In addition to clean your device memory from obsolete and temporary files, optimize RAM by avoiding useless files and allowing for a better app management, Power Clean scan your photos to find duplicates to delete. The app is free and unintrusive.