These are 3 Files That Make Android Phones Slow, Many Don’t Know

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A slow Android phone is often a problem that interferes with the user experience. Slow performance can even be frustrating.

A slow Android phone is likely filled with a number of unnecessary files. These files fill up the space on the phone.

So make sure you delete these files to free up space on your phone. Here are some files that make Android phones slow, summarized from the Hindustan Times page, Thursday (12/9/2024):

1. Trash Files

Android phones have a Google Photos application that has a trash folder. This folder contains files that have been deleted and will be stored for the next 60 days.

You can delete the contents of the folder. The trick is to open the application and click Library. Go to the Bin menu and click Empty, and it will ask

2. Cache

The accumulated cache will also fill up space on the phone. So delete the cache immediately to make the phone much emptier than before.

The trick is to open the phone’s Settings and go to the relative app. Continue by clicking the clear Cache button. This method will free up space that was previously filled by the cache.

3. File Download

You may often download many files from the internet or other applications. But in the end, the downloaded files are forgotten and fill up the phone’s storage.

So make sure you only save the necessary download files. Immediately delete unnecessary files so that the storage is more empty and the smartphone’s performance is much better than before.

How to delete files on Google Drive:

In addition to files stored on the cellphone, users are also advised to diligently delete files stored in the cloud. For Android cellphone users who use a Google account, usually many files are stored on Google Drive.

Here’s how to quickly overcome full Google Drive storage:

• Open the Google One service at https://one.google.com
• Log in with the Google account whose storage is full and you want to clean it
• If you have logged in to your account, next, select the “Free Up Storage Space” option in the “Home” menu

In that section, users will be presented with information on what Google storage is used for. Users will also be presented with several recommendations to delete files or data in certain categories that are filling up storage, such as email data in the trash folder, spam emails, photos in Google Photos, emails in Gmail with large attachments, and large files in Google Drive. You can open files with categories and start deleting them. Once deleted, Google storage will be more spacious, which will make Google Drive storage no longer full.

SOURCE : CNBC INDONESIA