The first thing you should know is that if you don't fix low storage space quickly, your device will start having problems. Well, you won't be able to download or update your applications and run the risk that the ones you have stop working.
However, you shouldn't get caught from panic, as below you will know what to do if you are low on storage space and tips for not having it.
What to do if internal storage is low?
If your ANDROID device has already indicated that you have low internal storage, all you need to do is follow the following steps to clean your device. If you do it literally, you can be sure your device will work wonderfully and you can install a game or any application you want.
- Clear the cache data of your applications, you can do it one by one or you can do it in a general way. To do this, click on "settings", "internal memory" and "clear cache data", in this way you can directly clear the cache of all applications.
- Delete the downloads you have, it is normal that when downloading any document it is stored on our device, occupying significant space. For this reason, we must select the download option and delete all those files that we are not using, or we can save them in Google Drive.
The important thing is that this step means that, by saving them in Google Drive, we will no longer need to have a backup on our device. Therefore, you can make a backup copy of those downloads, you can delete it, as you will find them in Google Drive.
- Select the photos and videos that are no longer needed and delete them and if you don't want to lose them forever, you can make a backup copy of them. For this you can use applications such as Google Photos and as in the previous step you will not need to have the backup on your device.
Therefore, delete the backup from your device and whenever you want to use the photos and videos go to Google Photos.
- Delete anything you no longer use and in case you use it, but very little, you can move it to the external card.
Tips to follow to avoid running out of internal storage space on your Android
You may already read what you should do if you get the alert on your device that you have little space of internal storage. However, it can happen that, even if you follow these instructions to the letter, you later get the same message.
To do this, we will provide you with a few practical advice which, combined with the previous steps, will help you have more space on your device.
- Use an external memory of several GB, remember that ANDROID devices generally have an internal memory of 16 to 32 GB. However, this capacity can be expanded as appropriate up to 128GB, so you can save applications, photos, videos and games that take up a lot of internal space.
- Another important aspect is that, when you insert the memory card for the first time, your ANDROID will give you the option to save the photos from the camera to it. This is an excellent option to avoid congesting your device, as photos tend to take up a lot of space.
- Use the clouds we previously called Google Drive and Google Photo, that way if you lose your device, you will keep your photos and files. Best of all, you won't take up any storage space in the internal memory, as everything is in the cloud.
- Also, you can use applications like Files by Google, to keep your device clean and thus save yourself the warning of insufficient storage space.
As you will see, it is very simple to manage to keep that message that scares us so much when our Android tells us that we have little storage space. If you need this information, keep reading the articles on this interesting blog.