Is your phone lagging? Is it slow? Well, if your android phone might be having one of these problems just know you need to free up your phone’s space to make your phone fast in processing. This article will guide you on how to clear these junk files in your phone.
There are 5 ways in which one can empty trash on android:
- Clearing your phone’s cache data.
- Deleting downloaded files.
- Uninstalling all the unused apps in your phone
- Use of third party apps
- Using an SD card to store your files. Transfer some of your files from your internal storage to a SD card.
If one wish to remove the junk files from his/her android then you need to look for any unwanted data in your phone and remove it.
Clearing your cached data.
For those who don’t know the meaning of cached data, it’s the immediate data saved by your device to optimize your experience. This takes up all your phone memory that will be used for other purposes. To delete cached data in your phone, these are the steps to follow:
Clearing your cached data helps to empty trash on android.
- Step 1: On your home screen, launch the settings app.
- Step 2: Once you’ve launched the app, move down the options pop up and click “Apps” tab o
- Step 3: Select the app.
- Step 4: Next, click on “Clear cache button” to be given a pop up option to delete all your cached data.
- Step 5: You can as well repeat the above steps on the apps that use a lot of data in your phone.
Deleting downloaded files
We are all under the majority category of people who download files from the internet and forget about them. These files take most of our internal memory because we are used to forget on deleting files when we no longer need them. If you want to clear up your phone’s storage, you need to delete those files from your phone to give out more space.
To delete these files, follow the steps below:
- Tap on the downloads folder, to see the files you have downloaded so far.
- Select the files that you don’t need anymore, they might be YouTube videos or movies.
- Once you are done highlighting the files you will delete, Click on the delete option to permanently delete those files.
Uninstalling unused apps.
We all have apps that we downloaded and unfortunately, some of those apps we don’t use. If you want to clear your phone’s memory, then you need to quickly uninstall those apps from your phone. If you want to uninstall the app, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Go to your settings app.
Step 2: Once you’ve launched the app, proceed and click on the app’s option.
Step 3: Scroll down the apps as you choose which app you want to completely remove from your phone.
Step 4: Once you have identified the app you want to uninstall, tap uninstall button
Step 5: If you want to uninstall more apps, you can repeat the above steps for each separate app.
Conclusion:
Remember that it’s very important to keep emptying your trash on your phone. By doing so, your phone will not lag or take long to respond to any given action.
I am an Android app developer, content writer and freelancer. Working as an app developer since 2017. I always share various android app related suggestion, guide, tips and tricks.