You may experience performance, camera and game issues if you don’t have enough memory on your Android. You’ll need to keep some minimal storage free for apps and services to work properly on your Android. It’s easy to uninstall apps to free up space, but sometimes you might need those apps and downloading them from the Google Play Store all the time isn’t convenient. Instead, you can follow the trick below to free up space on Android without deleting apps.
You can also connect your Android phone to your desktop and transfer media files to free up space. But that is an impractical and time-consuming thing. Here are tips to reclaim storage space on your Android without touching installed apps.
1. Find and delete large media files
You can manually delete large videos from your phone’s gallery app. But it may take a while to find and delete those files from your phone memory. Google has a neat Files app that automatically detects large files on the phone. Check it out in action.
Step 1: Download the Files app from the Google Play Store.
Step 2: Open the Files app and give it the necessary storage permissions.
Step 3: The application will scan the phone memory for screenshots and large files.
Step 4: You can select and remove them from your phone immediately.
2. Remove downloads from streaming apps
The above trick only works with files stored on your phone. Files cannot detect and remove offline content from apps like Netflix, Spotify, or YouTube. If you have downloaded music albums on Spotify or entire TV series on Netflix, they can take up a large amount of storage space on your phone. It’s time to clear the storage from these apps without uninstalling them.
Step 1: Open Settings on your Android phone.
Step 2: Scroll to Applications.
Step 3: Check the list of installed apps with storage space.
Step 4: Scroll to Netflix (or any other app that takes up more space). For example, check the screen below. Netflix is consuming almost 8GB of space.
Step 5: Select the application to open the information menu.
Step 6: Scroll to Storage.
Step 7: Click Clear data.
You can also open the respective app and remove offline content from the Downloads menu.
3. Clear cache for frequently used apps
Caches are small data files that apps save on your phone to improve performance. Over time, some apps will collect an absurd amount of cache and take up more space on your phone. Follow the steps below to clear cache in an app.
Step 1: Long press on an app and open the info menu.
Step 2: Open Memory.
Step 3: Select Clear cache.
Repeat the same steps for other apps on your phone.
4. Try the Lite app
Developers like Facebook and Microsoft offer small apps on Android. If Messenger, Outlook, Facebook, etc., take up more space on your phone, you can use shorteners.
Lite apps are designed for low-end Android smartphones and take up less space. You might miss some functionality or facial animation glitches, but they get the job done.
5. Use Cloud Storage
If you’re a Google One or Microsoft 365 subscriber (all Microsoft 365 subscribers get 1 TB of OneDrive storage), you can use cloud storage to free up space on your phone.
You can upload photos and videos to Google Drive or OneDrive and delete them from your phone. That will free up space on your phone, and you can always access those photos and videos from other devices.
6. Free up storage from Google Photos
Most Android users prefer Google Photos for backing up media files. This app has a useful tool to delete backed up photos and videos from your phone. Follow the steps below.
Step 1: Open the Google Photos app on your Android phone.
Step 2: Tap your profile picture in the top right corner.
Step 3: Select Free up space.
Step 4: Check how much space you can free up on your phone.
Use the same menu to delete backed up data on your phone.
7. Check out the Archive Manager
OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) like Samsung and Xiaomi come with a dedicated storage manager to free up space without deleting apps. Here’s how you can use it.
Note: We will take a Samsung Galaxy phone running One UI 4.1 based on Android 12 as an example.
Step 1: Open Settings on your Samsung Galaxy phone.
Step 2: Scroll to Battery and Device Care.
Step 3: Open the Archive menu.
Step 4: You can check the Trash of your phone, duplicate and large files to delete them.
Use device memory wisely
You can also adjust video recording settings from 4K to Full HD to save storage space. Using the above tricks, you will get back around 10GB – 15GB of free space on your Android phone without any problems. If you have an iPhone and are facing similar memory issues, read our dedicated post to free up space on your iPhone without deleting apps.
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