There's one thing a wise Viking should learn from Leon the Professional. From time to time, you need to clean up 🧹. Not just your hut, your ride, and your desk at the factory. Tidiness in your phone is also important. And we usually postpone these clean-ups until never. Mistake! You MUST clean your smartphone of lingering junk. Why is it worth sweeping effectively? Read on, and you'll be a pro at this!
Why is it worth freeing up your phone from unnecessary files?
Firstly – cleaning your phone of unused and long-forgotten files allows you to save a lot of disk space. One photo can weigh as much as a portion of grandma's dinner. The same goes for installation files or videos.
Secondly – removing accumulated files can significantly speed up system performance and application launch times. Slow phone performance and loooong response times to mundane tasks are a sign that either we've fallen victim to malware, or our phone is about to burst from overeating 🫨.
Thirdly – cleaning your phone allows you to access the files you need to find more quickly at any given moment.
Believe us! After sweeping cookies or forgotten installation files from your phone, your device will reward you with vitality and will zoom like an arrow 💘 Kupi… Odin!
How to clean up phone memory?
You already know, Viking, that cleaning matters. You're ready to act, now you just need to arm yourself with the knowledge that will allow you to effectively and quickly separate the wheat from the chaff, i.e., get rid of everything that clutters and slows down your smartphone.
Tidying up on Android
To free up memory on an Android device, go to the general device settings, then find the "Apps" section. For each app you want to clean, click on the "Storage" section, which allows you to delete both temporary files and data saved by the selected app. Some apps store quite a lot, so you have a chance to recover a lot of space.
Peeling apples, or cleaning memory on iOS phones
How to clear the cache on an Apple phone 🍏? The process is basically very similar to cleaning Android smartphones. In essence, only the names of tabs and sections change.
Go to Settings, then navigate to "General," and then "iPhone Storage." There you will find all your apps and can clear the data stored within them. In the same place, you can find the "Documents & Data" section and delete apps there or tap "Offload App," which will also result in clearing cookies from selected mobile apps. It's worth doing this because mobile internet on your phone relies on saving large amounts of information to launch apps and websites faster.
The best apps for cleaning your phone
You can clean your phone automatically – with the help of useful apps. Of course, you should only download them from trusted sources! What are the best apps for cleaning your phone?
Leading the pack – according to downloads and Google search results – is CCleaner. It works with both Android and iOS. This universality is probably behind its popularity. It's free, intuitive, easy to use, and so good that no one has ever hated on it 🙃.
When removing cookies from your phone, you can also use programs like Phone Cleaner (various developers name their cleaning apps this way – e.g., Avast, Startup Manager, or Clean Master) or Norton Clean. All of them work on Android smartphones and will allow you to both remove cookies and speed up your phone's performance.
And what exactly are we cleaning?
We didn't want to bore you with details about data cleaning right away, but instead, give you a recipe for freeing your phone from temporary files and similar trifles.
Are you still with us? Respect 💪!
Perhaps, while you're at it, you're curious about what exactly you're getting rid of from your device.
Memory (in your phone) is needed to install new things or store files – like the latest adorable photo of your little ones.
Our smartphones, just like computers, store a huge amount of data that facilitates the re-launching of apps or games. This can therefore include automatic game saves from applications or cookies that speed up the re-launch of websites we've visited before. Browsers can save a lot of accompanying files, which after a long time can weigh up to 1-2 GB. So there's something to trim down.
The accumulation of such data can significantly slow down a relatively mentally healthy phone and give its owner a reason to consider buying a new device. Meanwhile, after proper cleaning, it might turn out that the news of the device's imminent demise is greatly exaggerated…
So, take care of your smartphone's hygiene and remember that by organizing its contents from time to time, you give it a second chance 👌!
