Seven ways to free up storage space on Android

A large part of the smartphones that reach the market with an Android operating system do so with an internal storage space of 16 GB or more. This ensures that storage problems disappear in one fell swoop, although unfortunately there are still terminals that only offer us 8 GB of internal storage and endless problems for all those who acquire it.

I myself had to suffer these problems a few days ago, because I had the opportunity to test one of the most popular smartphones on the market, which however only offers the user 8 GB of storage, of which only are available for use. "Normal", half. Due to the many problems that I had to face for a few days I have decided to write in this article in which I show you a series of cool tips to free up storage space.

In case you did not know, it is necessary that you read the following tips and put them into practice since many devices, when they do not have enough internal storage space, do not allow you to carry out some processes, the simplest, such as sending and receiving SMS or install new applications downloaded from the official Google application store or what is the same Google Play.

If you have a mobile device or tablet with Android operating system, take out paper and pencil because in this article you will find the solution to the problems you suffer every day with limited internal storage that you have in your terminal.

Uninstall apps

The first advice to free up storage space on our Android device is very simple and is none other than that of uninstall applications that we no longer use. We can also uninstall applications that we have duplicates and with which we do very similar things.

To uninstall an application you just have to go to Settings and once there choose the option Manage applications. Be very careful what you uninstall because you can get into big trouble almost without realizing it.

Disable the apps you don't use

As you surely already know, some applications are installed together with the operating system and therefore cannot be uninstalled following the normal method. However, what we can do with all applications is disable them, which will make them not consume system resources and that they are also in our terminal occupying the minimum space possible since disabling them also uninstalls all updates that have been installed.

If you are not going to use any of the applications installed natively on the system, disable them so that they consume the least space and also do not consume resources of any kind.

Wipe cache

Clearing the cache is something that very few of us do frequently, but that allows to free up a large amount of storage space on our devices.

Clearing this type of memory means deleting all the stored data of the installed applications or games.

As of version 4.2 of the Android operating system, any user can clear the cache from Settings and then accessing the Storage option, to finally click on Cached data.

To free this type of memory it is also possible to resort to very famous applications such as Clean Master o CCleaner, although our recommendation if we have little space is not to install more applications on our device.

Delete the files or documents you have downloaded

On many occasions we use our mobile device to download documents, among which may be, for example, invoices, bank receipts or any other type of document. Of course these take up space in the internal memory of the device so it is highly recommended that once viewed and analyzed you delete them.

If you do not delete them as you download them, you can always delete them all at once from the Downloads app. If you have not deleted the documents you download for a long time, you may get a pleasant joy, in the form of space, when you get to delete files.

Delete images, videos and other multimedia content

All those photos that you take in the air, that come out blurred or that you have repeated take up space and most of us have them by the dozen in our galleries. If your device's storage space is at the limit Sit quietly and start deleting all those photos, videos, songs and other files that you do not want or are of any use or that you have repeated.

There are many applications that search for repeated images or that do not work, but once again our recommendation, since we are very short of space, is that you do not install more applications that will consume storage space in a somewhat useless way.

Make use of a cloud service

More and more cloud storage services offer us a lot of gigabytes, to store all our images or almost anything we want, completely free or for a very low price.

Uploading our images to one of these services allows us to free up a huge amount of storage space on our device, but also to be able to be protected if, for example, our smartphone is lost or stolen since all our photographs will be safe.

Make sure your device doesn't have a microSD slot

It may seem silly, but if I have put it in this article it is because more than one user, including myself, we have had many problems with the internal storage of our device until we have realized that that thing that is at side of the SIM card is for inserting a microSD card.

Therefore Always make sure before drawing other plans if the device has the possibility of expanding the internal storage through one of these cards, which will get us out of more than one hurry and which can be purchased for a few euros.

These are some of the tips that there are to be able to free up storage space on our device and that you should put into practice, in our opinion, whether you have little or a lot of space and that is that repeated images or useless files do not serve no one.

What processes or applications do you use to free up internal storage space on your device?.